{"id":57,"date":"2007-06-30T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=26&blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-06-30T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:48:48","slug":"thered-be-blood-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/thered-be-blood-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"There’d be blood everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I was at an aikido seminar where Mr. Kenneth Cottier was teaching. He's remarkable in the world of aikido because he is one of the few Englishmen (and, indeed, non-Japanese) to have trained at the hombu<\/em>, or headquarters, dojo in Tokyo while the founder of aikido was still alive and teaching — in fact Mr. Cottier was there from the early 1960s. He currently holds the rank of 7th dan shihan<\/em> from the Aikikai headquarters. <\/p>\n

During the class, he addressed a common question. I'm quoting this as closely as I can recall to his actual words, although I didn't take written notes at the time.<\/p>\n

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I'm sometimes asked what would happen if a good karate-man attacked me with a decent roundhouse kick . . . What would happen? I'd be on the floor and there'd be blood everywhere! I'm 74! Why is he attacking me? Why?!"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kenneth Cottier<\/div>\n

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Last weekend I was at an aikido seminar where Mr. Kenneth Cottier was teaching. He's remarkable in the world of aikido because he is one of the few Englishmen (and, indeed, non-Japanese) to have trained at the hombu, or headquarters, dojo in Tokyo while the founder of aikido was still alive and teaching — in fact … <\/p>\n

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