 One armed MA exists
In around '62 I knew a guy in Houston. He had been in Japan during the war. He showed me an 8mm film of Tomiki sparring with old timers at the Kodokan. Tomiki had one hand behind him, stuck in his belt. The art was, I learned, something Tomiki got in North China during the WW II. Whether this art became a basis for Tomiki's "Tomiki Aikido" I don't know.
Also in Okinawa, some Shrin teachers would have you simulate fighting with a broken arm by putting a hand behind you stuck through your belt. Try it sometime if you do a fist art. It's fun.
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