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Lee Crockett wrote:
Im not going to respond to the points individually.
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I didn't expect you would. That's how I chose my questions.
Why is just Arikawa sensei so important to you?
Why don't you "use" words of other students of Ueshiba?
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If you are happy doing what you are doing then fine, but it is not what O'Sensei left us. So you should not be calling it Aikido.
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Well, I'm doing, learning and teaching aikido.
For sure.
I'm sorry if you can't bring this together with your thinking.
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The simple fact of the matter is that we are not following O'Senseis teachings.
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Well, the shihan I follow, talks about what O sensei told him or taught him.
When he transfers O senseis words and what he experienced with him to us, to me this is kind of following his teachings.
But following his teachings is not copying him.
There is a proverb in German:
If your ar pointing at someone with your index finger, there are three fingers poiting at yourself.