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Christopher Li wrote:
Well of course, there were periods of time when Saito was out working - but I've been given to understand that it was fairly common. Then again, given Ueshiba's teaching style I wonder how much actual hands on there was for the average student even when he was actually the active instructor. Saito's main advantage was as a crash test dummy during Ueshiba's personal training and research.
Best,
Chris
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Chris:
You raise an excellent point! The main modality from learning from the teacher was what could the "crash test dummy" glean from the "crash"
! Still that way with my teacher most of the time. Direct questions lead to more examples (= crashes ) and few words. Stealing the technique was never meant to be easy......
Marc Abrams