[quote=Hugo Stiglitz;2316651]Read this blog.
This isn’t bullshit.
http://rik-ellis.blogspot.com/[/quote]
Here’s a quote from the site:
The need to adapt
Anyone who has had to use Aikido in a truly hostile situation will tell you that it looked nothing like the training in the dojo, one needs to be able to adapt him/herself and their technique to any situation. For me, my Aikido is in my mind /technique / my body, I make no pretence of offering myself on a plate to my opponent/ assailant with a stylised Aikido posture, the biggest mistake in the cage or street is to offer your opponent your leading leg or arm, you will be down before you know what has happened and all your Aiki love nonsense will be pounded out of you. ( welcome to the real world ). …
So basically this is MMA, but they call it “adapted” akido, since the real thing gets you killed in real life if you do what they actually teach you.
This reminds me of the Monty Python joke “Crossing the Atlantic on a Tricycle:”
“In Nova Scotia today, Mr Roy Bent of North Walsham in Norfolk became the first man to cross the Atlantic on a tricycle. His tricycle, specially adapted for the crossing, was ninety feet long, with a protective steel hull, three funnels, seventeen first-class cabins and a radar scanner.”
In other words, it was a luxury yacht, but he called it an “adapted tricycle.” If you have to adapt it, it doesn’t work as is, and you should be just doing whatever you’re adapting it to.
This is the problem with the “softer” martial arts, i.e. they are based on a mysticism that they cling to even after it’s de-bunked.