You all know the story of the 40 year history of the Triangle choke, how everyone saw Lethal Weapon, then saw Royce in UFC4, and thought is was something new and unique, when it had been in Judo the whole time
The same goes for Judoka and Karateka when they saw those first Seagal movies and watched him do Kote Gaeshi - and when they were then taught it, they got disappointed that the Uke just falls to the floor and doesn't somersault over the way the stuntman does in the film
Of course, anyone already in Ninpo would recogonise Kote Gaeshi as Omote Gyaku
In some ways the Daito Ryu is the only Samurai Ryuha we directly refer to, the other Ryuha we look at directly being the Ninpo schools
However we do not go to the listed Daito Ryu scrolls
We take our practice of Aiki Jutsu as it is handed to us through the schools of KARATE, JUDO and AIKIDO
