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Jeremy Morrison wrote:
What I think that GeneC was implying (correct me if I'm wrong GeneC) was that Bruce Lee changed MA, and that that change made his system one that survived and flourished and become an ancestor to today's MMA. So that is evolution....
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Absolutely correct.
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jeremy Morrison wrote:
So if a person's style of aikido was passed on to other generations (and that's how it works, right?). Some aikido shidoin now are students of students of students of O-sensei. And it probably starts before you even hang out a shingle - I know that my aikido is informed by the people I work with in class and at seminars), then aikido can be said to be evolving.
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Now this is where you start to veer off,imo. Merely passing the art from one generation to the next is not evolution, improving the efficiency of the techniques/art is. Adapting by improving to survive is evolution.