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Old 06-11-2005, 09:42 PM   #188
Red Beetle
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Re: Aikido minus mysticism: a step forward

[quote=Michael Gallagher]I care.
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So does Guro Dan Inosanto and Maha Guru Victor de Thouars and others; and my Kali instructor, Guro And Astle, who's studied under the above gentlemen. All of them are adamant about the cultural preservation side of the martial arts.
You can appeal to big name martial artists, but that is only an ad-hominem fallacy.

All of them care, yet none of them can demonstrate that changing the name of a technique will alter the technique. The reason they can't is because it doesn't change the technique, but only the name.

When water falls from clouds in the sky one person says, "It is raining." and another says, "Esta lloviendo." Neither English nor Spanish alters the weather.


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Maybe the question shouldn't be "who cares?" but "why don't you?"
I am not interested in their culture, but their fighting technique.

Red Beetle.
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