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Old 09-26-2006, 11:12 PM   #15
Peter Goldsbury
 
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Re: O-sensei still had it at 69!

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Bruce Kimpel wrote:
So Mr.Pranin piped in and corrected us.

So the list is actually:
Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Koichi Tohei
Rinjiro Shirata
Morihiro Saito
Tadashii Abe (with the tall hair)
Kiyoshi Sakuma (a teacher out of Osaka)
Nariaki Hirano (a relatively unknown teacher in Tanabe, a contemporary of Michio Hikitsuchi)

And yes Neal, 69 (70) is old. If you are 70, and don't know it...you're old. Just to let you know your old.
Ha ha, just bugging. Needless to say O-sensei moves darn good for 69 in that film, and a lot more than he did in a lot of other footage (IMO).
And what was Rinjiro Shirata doing in Iwama in 1952, when he had supposedly stopped aikido altogether? I think the person between Tohei and Saito is a youthful Shoji Nishio.

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