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Here's an interesting point though. At which point do you start taking them seriously? There are many schools of Karate for example and at first they must've been ridiculed by the schools they splintered from. When and how did, say, Wado Ryu for example gain its legitimacy and from whom? Didn't they just set up on themselves, get an association going, dojos affiliated to them, enter a few competitions etc? A martial art set up by a film star immigrant from Hong Kong or something and it being a fusion of Tai Chi Chuan, Wing Chung Pa Gua etc. How they must've lauged but it became Jeet Kune Do and the founder, Bruce Lee! Who says Seitei Iai with its non-practical techniques stolen and sanitised from Koryu is 'kosher'? The people running the association and taking our money for doing their courses, affiliating our dojo to them and paying £40 for a certificate? When does a 'new system' become legitimate?