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Old 04-21-2006, 02:47 AM   #4
Steve Mullen
Dojo: White Rose (Sunderland)
Location: Washington
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 270
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Re: Sexual harrassment

i have never witnessed sexual harrassment in the dojo, probably for two reasons

1) all the people i train with are a sound bunch of guys and girls
2) if anyone tried to be inappropriate with any of the girls i train with....the girls would kill them......several times (they scare me)

I feel that with a martial art such as aikido (i.e with the levels of physical closeness you need to have for things to work) you need to feel confident that the person who you are throwing your hips into (for a koshinage for example) isn't getting off on it.

Yeah occassionally when you are training you might touch/grab something you didn't mean to, but as long as that trust is there nothing will be thought of it.

So no touchy feely dammit!!!!!!

"No matter your pretence, you are what you are and nothing more." - Kenshiro Abbe Shihan
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