I knew people who trained with him in Aikido, and I saw a videotape of one of his seminars back just around the time of his first film.
What's really sad is he was a very good teacher, a good aikido practitioner. What's not so great is how he got his position, and once he made his first film everything went downhill from there, as far as I can tell. By all reports his students were very good and his first dojo in Taos was still running last I heard (maybe 12 years ago), putting out decent aikido students.
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timeasmymeasure
*sigh*
Date: 2008-06-19 08:30 pm (UTC)What's really sad is he was a very good teacher, a good aikido practitioner. What's not so great is how he got his position, and once he made his first film everything went downhill from there, as far as I can tell. By all reports his students were very good and his first dojo in Taos was still running last I heard (maybe 12 years ago), putting out decent aikido students.
Some people just can't handle having nice things.
Re: *sigh*
Date: 2008-06-19 08:32 pm (UTC)jk
Re: *sigh*
Date: 2008-06-20 10:39 am (UTC)