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Jason Casteel wrote:
Dan,
I assume those are the new translations. Do you by chance have the old ones, for comparison?
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Hello Jason
You would have to go find them.
Some are mentioned in the Kamae thread here.
Interestingly there are whole paragraphs left out (not translated at all) in the middle of an explanation. One of which is Ueshiba describing an almost book match description of spiraling to taiji.
Others where John Stevens skipped Ueshiba's repeated use of six directions as 60deg in hanmi.
The reasons are not nefarious...it is ignorance of an almost mundane and pedestrian terminology by and large unknown to these men who went on to became our teachers. It's sad really.
Hence the reason I used one of my own seminars as an example; where almost twenty Aikido people (teachers and students) were standing in a room with eight ICMA (teachers and students) and the ICMA guys looked at the AIkido teachers and basically said
How could you people NOT KNOW this stuff?
I honestly don't know who was more surprised when I began reading Ueshiba quotes out loud.
All the best
Dan
P.S. Hey I got your P.M.'s...it's all good dude. And yes I am re-thinking it. You couldn't fault me after hearing about the threats in public seminars. People can be very weird. What about this winter when it cools off?