Quote:
Xu Wenfung wrote:
Is aikido a sport?
Answer:
1) Yes. If you see it from a point of physical education. Just ask the Shodokan people.
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A person seriously into Shodokan Aikido would not call it a sport either although if you said you did Aikido because of physical fitness and hence saw it as a sport we wouldn't get ourselves in a lather.
Shiai is a mechanism we use to improve our Aikido but to us Aikido (whatever form) is a Budo.