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Old 04-21-2006, 10:45 AM   #13
merlynn
 
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Dojo: lone pine ryu school of aiki kyusho jujutsu ,woking & guildford
Location: kingston upon hull
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Re: Sexual harrassment

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Steve Mullen wrote:
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!!!!!!
but lets not forget sexual harrasment works both waysit not just women who get it men do too

some things are so dear and so precious you have to let them go
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