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Old 11-28-2011, 07:49 PM   #17
Marc Abrams
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Re: O'Sensei teaching Aikido at the Hombu Dojo after WWII

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Ken McGrew wrote: View Post
which goes quite contrary to the efforts are revisionism propagated by Pranin Sensei and others.
The statement represents to me profound ignorance of the overwhelming fact that until Stanley Pranin started doing research into Aikido, NO independent research had been done up until that point in time. Until Stanley Pranin did what he did, there were a lot of uncorroborated stories, myths, etc.. No one in the Aikido world has done as much as he has in establishing facts in Aikido and Daito Ryu. He has interviews more people, reviewed more documents and has cataloged more information about these arts than he can handle at least in his life time. If someone would like to debate Stanley Pranin on the history of our art, go right ahead.....

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