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    Blind Turk learns Aikido

    Page not found – Renaissance Man
    http://www.chinastrategies.com/blindnews.htm


    Sondakik Haber
    http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=8802
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    Turkish Daily News
    Wednesday, March 23, 2005

    Visually impaired man learns aikido

    ANKARA - Serkan Samancılar, 23, is visually impaired and works at the
    İzmir Public Library. Four years ago, after thieves stole his mobile
    phone, he started to learn aikido so he could protect himself.

    Aikido trainer Ömer Bükülmez said Samancılar has managed to learn all
    the techniques despite his visual impairment and was shocked by his
    talent.

    Samancılar said, "Thieves can hurt even defenseless people nowadays,
    so I'm learning this sport to defend myself," adding that being
    visually impaired did not have a negative effect on his training. "The basis
    of this sport is emotion, love and feeling. Disabled people have all
    three. People who thought I couldn't learn aikido now say 'Wow!' when they
    watch me training."

    Samancılar said aikido played a very important role in his life and
    not only made him strong but also enriched his soul and a gave him a new
    energy for life.

    Successful:

    Bükülmez said Samancılar was his first visually impaired student and
    was no different from any other. He said Samancılar was even more
    successful than some other trainees. "Although he can't see, he learned the
    aikido moves with his strong sense of hearing. He can immobilize any
    attacker merely by hearing the voices. But more important is that aikido
    improved his way of thinking because it's not only a sport but also a
    philosophy and a lifestyle," he said.

    Bükülmez also said he was thinking of giving aikido lessons to the
    visually impaired at his other training centers and added, "I learned
    many things from Serkan, and I want to say that if somebody covered my
    eyes I wouldn't be able to fight as well as he does."

    Samancılar has been working at the library for five years and is
    rewriting books in Braille for the blind. Samancılar is also a student at
    Anadolu University's social sciences department open education faculty.

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    Is it just me or is it supercool that a blind person can achieve so much. I want to learn Aikido now.
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    Wow, I'm impressed.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by nakharar
      Wow, I'm impressed.
      Impresssed? I'm not. It says visually impaired, not blind. Which means he sees forms and shadows at the very least. No matter how they try to portray it otherwise.

      Whyever would we want some turk able to defend himself?
      If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
      -George Orwell
      Thus the highest realization of warfare is to attack the enemy's plans; next is to attack their alliances;
      -Sun Tzu

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      • #4
        I find it inspiring, I've recently been interested in Aikido myself; and I can't help admire such perseverence and dedication.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Thai-Samurai
          I find it inspiring, I've recently been interested in Aikido myself; and I can't help admire such perseverence and dedication.
          It should be fairly easy to find somebody else instead of a turk to be inspired by.
          If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
          -George Orwell
          Thus the highest realization of warfare is to attack the enemy's plans; next is to attack their alliances;
          -Sun Tzu

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          • #6
            I've never come across an article that mentions a good thing Turkish people have done. When I saw this article I realized I had to post it. Aikido is a fabulous sport.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Thai-Samurai
              I've never come across an article that mentions a good thing Turkish people have done. When I saw this article I realized I had to post it. Aikido is a fabulous sport.
              it is, but not as fabulous as ultimate frisbee. and turks suck at it

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