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Keith Larman wrote:
FWIW, my personal opinion is that we're already so split apart that many different "branches" are in fact better viewed as different arts already. I frequently train with others, inside and outside Aikido. And to be honest, I often find just as many significant differences arising between different branches of Aikido as I do between what I see as Aikido and other arts not similarly labeled.
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Well, the name was intended as a general category to begin with: a bag able to contain arts that bore a sufficiently close family resemblance to each other to be marked off from the arts in the other general categories -- all in the service of the war currently being waged by Japan (in 1942). This is somewhat different from the idea of one specific art created by Morihei Ueshiba, say in 1931, and given a specific name because he chose it.