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What type of Martial Art?


I was wondering what kind of fighting Steven Seagal specializes in, to me it looks like he's just playing patty-cake though. For real, he just stands there and moves his hands. I don't think he actually knows how to fight. Or he had too much of texas BBQ.

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He is a 7th-D Aikido Master.

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more like a 7th-Dish Buffett Master.

LOL.

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lol!

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rofl! Best Seagal's Fat joke I've seen posted!

Who says violence is not the answer?

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It's fun to make fun anonymously, but he's the real deal in the dojang. Oh, yeah he's 55 by the way, I wonder what you all will look like @ 55.

If I die first, bon appetite.

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Agreed. He's a badass. Well, not in this film, but in real life, yes.

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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he professionalizes in flailing his arms and looking like an a**hole. he's really good at that.

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He specialised in Aikido when he was younger,

but i'm not sure if he trains or runs a Dojo any more, every Aikido student I know (myself being one) does not do the whole "arm flailing thing" I think that is just something he adds himself, not really sure why.

"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"

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He does indeed hold 7th degree in Aikido.

And that really shows through in his earlier films, Nico, Marked for death, Out for justice etc, where his technique was very strong and he dominated his opponents very well.

But in his later films he seems to put in far more kicks and games of patty-cake, I think he just pulls from whatever he sees and likes nowadays.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat"

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Seagal is the real deal for sure. He studied aikido and was an instructor in Japan so you know he's legit. But his movies in the past decade have been awful. This is the latest one I've seen and it's as bad as alot of the others. Really bad edits and more obvious stuntmen for Seagal. The story is good but the screenplay was really bad.

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He might be an Akido master but in all his films he really does play patty-cake!

Its that man again!!

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