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Raul Rodrigo wrote:
Professor:
Just a few questions:
1. Could you be a bit more explicit about what Sekiya found "distasteful" about the Saito version of ken?
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Well, it might have been the way we were doing it.
There was a makiwara in the dojo and the Yoshinkan background of Minoru Kanetsuka sometimes showed: slow, basic training, with uncooperative ukes. There was lots of tanren uchikomi training at the makiwara. In addition, Sekiya Sensei most definitely did not possess
Mito-kishitsu in any way. By profession he had been an engineer with JAL. Personally, I do not think he 'believed' in aiki-ken, at least as an established sword art. Of course, O Sensei trained with the sword in Iwama and this was called 'aiki-ken'. This is part of established aikido doctrine, but Sekiya believed that a sword art as such was kenjutsu, like Katori and Kashima.
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Raul Rodrigo wrote:
2. Despite Chiba's stopping Sekiya from teaching his ken in London, was there ever any influence in Chiba's own ken from Sekiya, who was after all his father in law?
best,
R
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I do not think so--certainly not at that time.
Best wishes,