10-21-2013, 01:24 PM
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Dojo: Team Combat USA
Location: Olympia, Washington
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 4,376
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Re: Is it still Aikido if you take away the Japanese clothes, etiquette and other things?
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Alex Fitzgerald wrote:
Is it still the military (as in martial) if you take away the weapons, saluting, rank, training system, uniforms, structure, discipline, rituals, rites, and honor? Now can you do aikido if you strip these things away,sure, but doing a martial art and practising a martial art are two different things.
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Yes we call it Special Forces! 
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