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Brad Hoffner
17th September 2001, 20:41
I have read at a site on the web that there are blocks and strikes in aikido that are similar to shorinji kempo karate? Where would the tie be from?

Brad Hoffner

yamatodamashii
18th September 2001, 07:23
To the best of my knowledge, Shorinji kempo was an amalgamation of Doshin So's knowledge of various Chinese quan fa methods (which he studied while doing intelligence work in Manchuria) with Hakko ryu jujutsu.

Hakko ryu jujutsu, like aikido, was created by a student of Daito ryu grandmaster Takeda Sokaku.

Essentially, aikido would be the "uncle" of Shorinji kempo.