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Originally Posted by jsup
Akido, tight fighting, throws, and effective. IMO Best street fighting martial art availabile.
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I did Aikido for a little while. It's beautiful, but takes a LOONG time to get good at. Being born from Aikijitsu, it's also not particularly oriented toward defending against punches and kicks, more of a throw and break bones kind thing from the Samurai days when they had some armor (i.e., punching no worky). The thing that's particularly unique about Aikido, once mastered, is that you don't have to be all that strong, and certainly not stronger than your opponent, to whoop'em.