Nice article, but reading things like:
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free sparring in aikido because it requires a very high level of expertise and without this level of expertise it can quickly degenerate into ordinary wrestling."
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aikido could benefit from free sparring, but in most cases it would degenerate into some form of wrestling or unskilled shooto
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makes me wonder about what could be the motivations for the use of the word "degenerate". Why not "evolve" or even a neutral "move"?