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Old 08-18-2012, 01:56 AM   #5
Dave de Vos
 
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Re: Ueshiba's Aikido?

In the context where this term was used, it was fairly clear to me what was meant. If you'd draw a genealogy of aikido, there would be different offshoots from the root branch at different times created by different students of O Sensei: Mochizuki, Tomiki, Shioda, Saito, Tohei, etcetera.

In this view, aikikai would be an offshoot too, the offshoot created by Ueshiba Kisshomaru.
So how would you call that root branch if you'd want to distinguish it from aikikai? I think Ueshiba aikido is a reasonable attempt, but perhaps Morihei's aikido or O Sensei's aikido would be less ambiguous, as Robert Watson pointed out.

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