I'm just not having it. Aikido is about taking swords off people is it.? Maybe that's what it is designed for, but I have never seen any proof of it being capable of doing so. You try to take a sword off someone if you want to, but take any expensive rings off first, that way you will still have them when you no longer have your arms. But then you revert to how it works in a real fight......and then you revert to how it is meant to be a life philosophy more than a fighting art....
Which is it? And don't say "it is all these things" as you jump about from one to the other when the need arises.
Aikido uses unrealistic techniques and, for the most part, trains them in an unrealistic fashion. And convincing yourself that's realistic training to take a sword off someone is a little ludicrous.
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