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Originally posted by kungfupanda
Naw Swan. My instructor, who is comparatively TINY, slings the heaviest of men all around the dojo with ease. Then, to my surprise, the little girls follow suit and get to slingin!! LOL
No doubt that karate is independent. But jujitsu has similar strikes. Jujitsu= one of the most complete arts ever.its in the same field as Hapkido, krabbiKrabong, and perhaps MMA
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It is one of the most complete arts, butI think the fact that the strikes are now similar tells me that they were influenced by karate
Look at how Aikidostrikes and those in judokata are done and you know how jujitsu strikes were done in the 19th century
you can also look at the techniques of very traditional/classical ryu
And this I find a good thing, adjust the techniques to be most effecient, don't just stick to tradition just because of tradition because it doesn't make sense :
Any Founder of a style, did so because he found a more effecient better way to work AND the school he was in didn't accept the better way so he had to start his own school
Now if this happened to you and 20 years later a student would come to you and show you a more effecient way of doing things would you be so inconsequent to say no this is the way we have always been doing it, so go away
No modern ju jitsu isn't affraid copy things from other arts and so they should otherwise how do you defend aginst these foreign techniques
And how was the saying : better a good copy than a bad original?