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Yeah, Until he married his Sensei's daughter, took over the Dojo when the Sensei died, spent them into poverty then dumped wife and kids to run back to the US.
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I know back in the day he lived and studied martial arts in Japan and was highly respected.
Yeah, Until he married his Sensei's daughter, took over the Dojo when the Sensei died, spent them into poverty then dumped wife and kids to run back to the US.
Seagal, through his films, made aikido more famous and popular as a martial art than its originator did. So maybe the indigenous aikido dojos over there should start paying him a royalty fee.
I've seen him over here and he travels with a group of bodyguards because his rep is that bad within the Osaka martial arts world.
That’s because during his years as the only “white boy” teaching a Japanese martial art in Japan, he regularly had to beat the shit out of the Yakuza thugs sent to shut his dojo down.
That experience actually helped him refine his aikido skills from being merely “dojo techniques” to being brutal, street effective fight-stopping techniques.
‘Cause as we all know, what might work on the dojo mat doesn’t necessarily work out on the street,