On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:37:40AM -0800, David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Jot Powers wrote: > And watching some of the many and varied styles, both with weapons and > unarmed, my impression is that the Chinese martial arts have a > tendency towards being much more swirly and flashy, with a lot more > motions that might be meant to distract the opponent (such as the > drunken style). > > The Japanese styles, from what I could see, are usually more > direct and choppy, in contrast. That's a little odd; the Japanese came up with Aikido, Aiki-Jutsu, and probably more styles in the "extremely circular" category. Perhaps the selection of Japanese martial arts simply didn't include those as examples? -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp