Martial Arts
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Aikido went too soft these days, in some versions it's more of a dance than martial art. When you 're training with uke (attacking partner who gets defeated in each repetition of a technique), most ukes fall on the ground before you apply the technique. wtf? How could it teach you anything? Real world opponents don't fall when they see you, they smack you in the face.
That's why I started digging for something more realistic and found Daito Ryu. The story is that the founder, Sokaku Takeda was the meanest mf in Japan in his days and he preserved techniques that went back in his family clan to XI century. He was the first to teach ppl from outside the clan. He supposedly was one of the real last samurai, he wore sword even when it wasn't legal anymore. There was noone that would try to disarm him. AFAIR he was portrayed in one of Kurosawa's samurai movies. When you watch the old documentary films with Morihei Ueshiba, Aikido founder who'd studied for over 20 years under Takeda, you see his aikido was defensive in a very fierce and aggressive way. His movements vere circular, but contained. I think there still are some good Aikido schools, that teach 'old school' Aikido. Two i know of are Yoshinkan Aikido and Shudokan Aikido.