Judo, Now with weapons? Options

[Karoline]

So I was looking through the martial arts section of arsenal recently, wanting to create a defensive type fighter, and figured that Aikido would make a good choice since it is all about redirecting enemy attacks and defenses and throws and such (As far as I know). I noticed however that the +1 die it grants when using full defense is only to dodge or parry, and not block.

Does Full Parry mean to include a full block? Because looking through SR4 I noticed that in the table about defense it says "Defender using Full Defense: Reaction + weapon skill/Dodge + Dodge" It also separates weapon skill from unarmed combat via parry v block.

It also indicates that you can do a full defense using Reaction + unarmed skill + dodge in the text on the same page... so did unarmed combat suddenly get included under weapon skill and count as a parry when doing a full defense?

It seems even weirder because I've never thought of Aikido/Judo as being a martial arts that makes any use of weapons.

Also, while we're on the subject, why would you want to take the Aikido +1 to Full Dodge over the Capoeira +1 to melee dodge? Since melee dodge gets included into Full dodge, it seems like the Capoeira bonus is had all the time while the Aikido one is limited only to when you use a full defense.