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Old 04-23-2009, 02:31 AM   #11
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Re: Integrating aikido with other martial arts.

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Alex Lawrence wrote: View Post
The more I train the more I think there are only two martial arts subdivided into several schools.

The older art is the battlefield/self defence stuff. It's mindset is that it can teach principles and can develop in you the mental abilities to face up to conflict but it can't really teach you how to fight because there are so many variables in actual fighting.
All the schools of this art contain elements of striking, joint locking, weapons and throwing but utilise them in different proportions.

The newer one is the sporting one which has the mindset that finding and learning useful techniques is all that matters and that under controled circumstances these techniques can be shown to be effective in uncontroled circumstances.
Couldn't agree more, very good.

David

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