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Aikido
Aikido is a modern Japanese budo. It was developed by Morihei Ueshiba over the period of the 1920s to the 1960s. Ueshiba is also known by practitioners of aikido as O-Sensei or "Great Teacher". Aikido incorporates a wide range of techniques which use principles of energy and motion to redirect and neutralize the attack. At its highest level, aikido can be used to defend oneself without causing serious injury to either the aggressor or the defender. If performed correctly, size and strength are not important for
efficiency in the techniques.
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Karate
Is a budo art, a Japanese martial art introduced to the Japanese main islands from Okinawa in 1922. Karate
emphasizes striking techniques (i.e. punching and kicking) over grappling. Karate training can be divided into three major parts, kihon, kumite and kata. Kihon is the basics. Kumite means sparring and develops from well defined forms to the free form named
Randori. Kata means forms and is a fight against imaginary enemies, it is a fixed sequence of moves. |
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