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The Samurai Connection cont....... It was not uncommon for Samurai to be disarmed during battle. In most instances, this would prove to be fatal. However, through a sort of natural selection a series of techniques were discovered that an unarmed Samurai could use against armed opponents. This became known as AikiJutsu, meaning 'Spirit in harmony with technique'. From AikiJutsu, some of the more brutal, battlefield techniques were removed leading to the formation of Jujitsu. This was further sanitised by Jigaro Kano to form the sport version known as Judo. He added the word do, meaning 'The way' to gain further acceptance in the Shinto dominated Japanese society. Morihei Ueshiba, took the AikiJutsu techniques and formed them into a softer, self defence system known as Aikido, once again replacing the word jutsu with 'do'.
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