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Mike Haftel · 05-13-2007, 04:29 PM

Yeah, there is no way there are 10,000 seperate and individual techniques in any martial art.

There are a few, limited number of fundamental "techniques" and the others are just variations of the first one.

For example:

Nikyo from cross grab, from same side grab, from double grab, from the front, from the rear, from a strike, from a kick, from a headlock, from a bear hug, from whatever....they are all Nikyo, just variations of the same lock. They are not seperate techniques.

05-13-2007, 04:29 PM	#7
Mike Haftel Location: Hokkaido Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 87 Offline	Re: 10,000+ techniques Yeah, there is no way there are 10,000 seperate and individual techniques in any martial art. There are a few, limited number of fundamental "techniques" and the others are just variations of the first one. For example: Nikyo from cross grab, from same side grab, from double grab, from the front, from the rear, from a strike, from a kick, from a headlock, from a bear hug, from whatever....they are all Nikyo, just variations of the same lock. They are not seperate techniques.