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Old 07-21-2009, 02:45 PM   #58
Basia Halliop
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Is It Missing In Everybody's Aikido?

For my part I actually didn't intend to argue that all things are the same or that it's all in one's head or whatever... more that many people may just not care one way or another (in reference to the original question). In a sense I think most people join and stay with a _dojo_ or a _teacher_ (i.e., they are drawn and kept by whatever it is that they experience personally) rather than having 'aikido' in their minds and studying for years 'because it's aikido'. Perhaps there is some subset of people who do the latter, in which case I can see that the name discussion becomes less abstract.

From what some of you are saying, actually, it sounds to me less like you disagree that's it's a debate about names and more like you simply believe that names are important, which is fair enough I guess.
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