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- From: alex.soto@analog.com (Alex Soto)
- Subject: re: Aikido, jujutsu, aiko-jutsu, etc...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.183845.8546@analog.com>
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- Organization: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:38:45 GMT
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- From: alex.soto@analog.com
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: question about history of different styles
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- In article <Bxx71E.1Fq@math.uwaterloo.ca> gamiddle@math.uwaterloo.ca (Guy Middleton) writes:
- >I'm trying to get some understanding of the differences in approach, and the
- >history of, jujutsu, aiki-jujutsu, aikido, and judo. As far as I can tell,
- >they all are derived ultimately from jujutsu, but I'm not sure of how modern
- >versions of each are related.
- >
- >As a concrete example: we (aiki-jujutsu) have a technique called nikyo, as do
- >the aikido people. While the footwork looks the same to me, the hand and arm
- >positions are different -- the uke's seems to be held more loosely, and is
- >straighter, in the aikido technique.
- >
- >In any case, it would be great if somebody who knows all these styles would
- >like to comment.
- >
-
- Well I am by far an expert, but I remember reading somewhere that Aikido and
- Jujitsu both originated from Shaolin Chin Na (I believe) not from jujutsu.
- I can't comment in appearance though since that is not the Shaolin style that
- I am learning.
- Mystic
- (alex.soto@analog.com)
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