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Tadao Koyama wrote:
My Personal opinion on weapons is that they are very important because most if not all Aikido movements are based on weapons techniques.
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I have often heard this stated. Still, I am not sure that it is necessarily true that the aikido movements and techniques are based on weapons techniques. But traditionally the aikido movements surely were related to those of the weapons, at least so that armed attacks were also considered.
For example the sword: Some aikido movements seem based on sword movements. Even when that is not the case, it is safe to say that the aikido movements relate to sword attacks, and also to sword against sword relations.
Simply put: Even when the defender was not armed, the attacker was expected to be.