The Walking Dead Got Aikido Right

Aikido and FMA have remarkably similar Kata:

Some say Aikido is mostly technique unrelated to weapons. That is incredibly naive, and rooted to the same pacifism in Aikido culture that eschews sparring. In reality, the self defense prescribed by Aikido's founder involved incredibly violent weapon technique (and probably some form of now lost sparring):

What keeps FMA from turning into a martial arts failure (like what Aikido has degenerated into in 2019) is continuous contact weapon sparring. The issue is you can't really learn a martial art technique until you spar with it until you can land it:

Continuous contact weapon sparring could save Aikido (not that I expect it to):

Update #1 - this post has a sequel: http://bfgalbraith.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-walking-dead-got-aikido-right-2.html

Update #2 - Icy Mike did a video on what I call the "supposedly not Pakua strike in Aikido":

Update #3 Hein actually saved Aikido already under generally these same premises.