Re: Functional Origins of Aikido/Daito-Ryu Techniques
They don't have to be big techniques ending with the dominate position when you have a weapon. Having a free weapon IS the dominate position!
Also, those guys didn't have the internet back then. They couldn't look up a thousand techniques a day on youtube. So any little ideas they came across must have been like gold. A simple bump, shove, or arm hold they hand never before thought of could possibly save their life!
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