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Eric Simmons wrote:
I can imagine a blind person learning aikido. For this reason, I technically should have voted "very helpful."
However, I voted "critically helpful." Certainly, if I were running a dojo, I wouldn't waste anyone's time trying to teach a blind man aikido and would consider the ability to see essential to learning aikido at my dojo.
That may seem insensitive to some, but to me it's realistic. If I were to go blind today, I would stop training.
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Interesting observation. How could you possibly know how you would feel if you have no experience with this situation? Is your aikido only for the physically "perfect"?
We have a woman who is legally blind in our organization who is a second dan and and an iinstuctor with her own dojo.
Mary