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Old 11-10-2011, 04:26 PM   #1663
ryback
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Re: Aikido does not work at all in a fight.

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.They were not invented by O'sensei, or even Sokaku Takeda but they were a legacy of their "ancestors in martial arts" the samurai and even more back in time the classic bushi.Armed, unarmed and any other possible combination was practiced daily due to the need of survival, not the need to impose one's ego in a ring or a cage as a "violent sport".Therefore, they shouldn't be compared to fighting sports, or having the label of a new age "mumbo jumbo". One man's mumbo jumbo, is another man's science. When those techniques and fighting methods were invented people didn't know about...new age. Any question about whether they work or not, is actually out of the...question. They were made to work, or they wouldn't be studied for use in the battlefield by the samurai, whose whole life was centered around fighting. To invent the "ultimate fighting method" of the...week in the form of MMA, kick-boxing,boxing e.t.c has happened before, it's just a trend.But to compare real martial arts to fighting sports...beats the hell out of me! They have different values,different approach and different purpose, i see no ground for comparisons.
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