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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
Actually there is. Go check out an Aikido Dojo and see all the people who partially dodged an attack. It's probably more common that a complete success and certainly more common that a failure.
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I'm not sure this is the same for weapon fighting though. You can maybe roll with a punch, but that's a lot harder to do with a weapon. I've done quite some training with sticks (filippino martial arts), including full contact sparring with limited protective gear. The speed of the weapons are pretty much too fast for the dodge to work partially. Either you dodge the hit or you don't - and my
feeling (highly subjective, but still) is that if you don't dodge it fully, you get the full force from the blow.
SGL.