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Old 12-03-2013, 01:26 PM   #26
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Re: YouTube: Morihei Ueshiba - Rare Aikido Demonstration (1957)

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Karl:

Your assertion that O-sensei avoided challenges is not credible. Why?

Because in order to teach budo in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s (when O-sensei started teaching), you *had* to be able to accept and defeat challenges, because he would have gotten them...all the time (people still cared about validation back then). If he didn't have the skills to back up his teachings and lost - or worse, if he "avoided" challenges as you claim, this would quickly become known and he would have lost his students and his dojo. Now, that didn't happen did it?
Then prove he had accepted challenges and defeated the challengers... BTW, what is your definition of 'challenge'?
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Old 12-03-2013, 01:46 PM   #27
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Then prove he had accepted challenges and defeated the challengers... BTW, what is your definition of 'challenge'?
I'm not sure that would've worked particularly well, because it would have come from a "[sycophantic]" bit of hearsay.

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Old 12-03-2013, 02:05 PM   #28
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Not sure why those brackets showed up...my brain is fried today...nap time.
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Old 12-03-2013, 06:18 PM   #29
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Then prove he had accepted challenges and defeated the challengers... BTW, what is your definition of 'challenge'?
The mear fact that he had well known martial arts from other arts validated him. Those guys attacked and lost so they became students. Thats how Osensei became a student of Takeda Sokaku. That's how my current sensei became a student of aikido. Doesn't take much of those in the know to know. In other words, game recognizes game.
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Old 12-04-2013, 09:05 AM   #30
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The mear fact that he had well known martial arts from other arts validated him. Those guys attacked and lost so they became students. Thats how Osensei became a student of Takeda Sokaku. That's how my current sensei became a student of aikido. Doesn't take much of those in the know to know. In other words, game recognizes game.
Your "proof" is nothing but mere speculation.

I can play that game too, look:

Ueshiba was "validated" because he has papers issued by Takeda Sokaku and had lots of influential contacts in the military and politics from his Omoto-kyo days, not even counting his relationship with right wing extremists. No one issued him a serious challenge.

Also, we are not going to ask about this:

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I wish I could go into more detail - I cannot - but I am aware of one event when Ueshiba Morihei, at the height of his powers, was humbled by another martial artist. (No, I'm not talking about his first youthful encounter with Takeda Sokaku, or Sagawa Yukiyoshi's account of grabbing Ueshiba's arms and rendering him unable to move). For those who are curious, I will not say more
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BTW, how your Sensei became a student of Aikido is interesting but that is not useful nor reliable data for an Ueshiba Morihei biography.
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Old 12-04-2013, 04:43 PM   #31
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Your "proof" is nothing but mere speculation.

I can play that game too, look:

Ueshiba was "validated" because he has papers issued by Takeda Sokaku and had lots of influential contacts in the military and politics from his Omoto-kyo days, not even counting his relationship with right wing extremists. No one issued him a serious challenge.

Also, we are not going to ask about this:

(bold mine)

BTW, how your Sensei became a student of Aikido is interesting but that is not useful nor reliable data for an Ueshiba Morihei biography.
People talked/interviewed their seniors or instructors who did the same with their predecessors.. The lucky few saw events with their own eyes. If you trust your senior then you'll take their word. No video available the further you go back in time. What type of proof are you exactly looking for to satisfy you?
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Old 12-04-2013, 04:57 PM   #32
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People talked/interviewed their seniors or instructors who did the same with their predecessors.. The lucky few saw events with their own eyes. If you trust your senior then you'll take their word.
Chinese telephone.

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No video available the further you go back in time. What type of proof are you exactly looking for to satisfy you?
How historiograpy works?
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