Evidence of which part of my statement?
"I've said before that functional use of Aikido has to include non-aiki application of the same techniques (including strikes). When someone knows what you're going to use, and works to nullify it, it changes what you use unless you outclass them sufficiently."
I explicitly pointed out, verbatim, the three things you accused me of saying in this thread that I didn't say. In the English language the word for that is "lying". I'm sorry if you don't like that word. Would you prefer if I called it purposeful dishonesty?
You can't really blame him for being to young to fight in the gulf war, I'm old enough but had the sense not to join the army, as I had a suspicion they might send me to a war, ( did they not mention that when you joined )and I'm not getting my self killed in some pointless argument about oil and pipe lines and invisible lines in the sand, no sir, I was keeping the home fires burning, they also serve who only sit and wait,
Not to mention I'm Canadian. We had some peacekeepers over there but not too many, and you'd have to be a masochist to join the Canadian military. Those dudes are not treated well.
The best collected evidence you'll find is those Tomiki competitions. They use Aikido in those. Some of it looks (and operates) like Judo, because they're not focused on only doing the aiki application. If you saw me grappling with someone, you'd probably see what I'm doing as being mostly Judo. While there's some Judo influence, most of what I do is most heavily drawn from the NGA techniques from Daito-ryu (the same primary source as Aikido). If someone with Aikido training steps into a ring, you're just not going to see much of the big, easily-recognizable aiki applications. If you see anything definitively Aikido, it'll be in the movement, rather than the technique.
