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**atmowasia** · 07-19-2007, 11:14 AM

I asked a native Japanese speaker if it was ok to call myself an aikidoka after reading about this stuff on aikido-l, years ago. She seemed to think it was fuss over nothing and it was ok to call myself an aikidoka. Good enough for me.

Great point. Japanese really isn't as hard and fast on a lot of these things as some people imagine.

At all the iaido shiai I've been to, the participants are called 剣士.

07-19-2007, 11:14 AM	#29
atmowasia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	I asked a native Japanese speaker if it was ok to call myself an aikidoka after reading about this stuff on aikido-l, years ago. She seemed to think it was fuss over nothing and it was ok to call myself an aikidoka. Good enough for me. Great point. Japanese really isn't as hard and fast on a lot of these things as some people imagine. At all the iaido shiai I've been to, the participants are called 剣士.
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