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Yannis Mousoulis wrote:
The aiki principles and the techniques used in Aikido date back to the times of Feudal Japan, times when those techniques were invented to be used in the battlefield as practical methods of survival among warriors.
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Feudal Japan battlefiels consisted in thousands of guys firing arrows and muskets and wielding spears, pikes and halberds. Some grappling with daggers when things went totally wrong and not much more.
Aikido techniques and tactics do not make sense in the battlefield.