Wonderful exercise for feeling and maintaining contact at the end there, Sensei. Thank you for sharing your art.

Thanks for the education.Very well explained,great empathy.

I completely agree with you that by maintaining extended ki, by flowing and adapting as and attack develops, a nage can keep the uke constantly unbalanced. The practice of changing techniques in mid-flow is aiki. What I'm attempting to address is the dojo problem of an uke who wants to prove that your technique won't work. By being aware and noticing the holes in their techniques, I can stop any of my students from doing a technique. But in doing so, I fail as a teacher. Bit by bit, I push them.

it is very nice to have compliant ukes in dojo. In my dojo we don't have any so we have to work hard and execute proper technique

We work a lot on attacks in my dojo. Attacks need to be real with extended ki and also flexible so that the attacker is able to change. It's easy for an uke to stop any particular aikido technique by rooting oneself. If an attacker becomes rooted, either there's no need to do aikido because their attack has stopped. Or, if there is a need to continue moving (for example if someone immovably grips your arm) an atemi or kiai works wonders. It's hard to learn aikido without good attacks.

...that and explained to the beginner how we get to morote dori, why is that hold like that and how to apply force (and allso relation with ken). So when we continued training he was doing correct morote dori hold. Point is, teachers role is to explain, and in my opinion that is done best when teacher shows all the pieces of the puzzle and then focuses on every piece so students can have better understanding of why and what they are doing

Good stuff!Cool drill at the end. I’m thinking about the first technique and only an aikidoist would roll out with the flow like that. Most people(bad guys) I’m guessing would stumble a little, maybe regain balance and a fight would ensue? The point you were making about not creating aggressive energy was to control the situation and “energetically” if you will, prevent the attacker from becoming more aggressive? Maybe you simply didn’t get into finishing techniques in this drill? Thanks

Thanks!

In my opinion, role of a teacher is to explain exactly what they have to do. For instance, this happened yesterday in my dojo. We have couple of new members so i decided to practice with one of the beginners, and we were doing morote dori kokyu ho, as we always do in the beginning of tai jutsu training. I told my uke grab firmly so i have to execute proper technique but instead he was constantly driving my arm down, to the ground, thus forcing me to do 4th variation of kokyu ho. Sensei saw...

These are good sensitivity drills. Don't confuse this with something you would actually do in a fight. I'm not saying what he's teaching is wrong in fact it's very right but you have to learn how to apply things tactically from the person is trying to do something to you and you're trying to stop that person from doing it to you but at the same time you're trying to do something to them but the principle is good because if you can create a strong root which is what he's doing when he brings the force to his center of gravity and be able to do that without losing your own center of gravity or losing your own balance and to be able to break your opponents center of gravity for break his balance is a very useful tool in any fight if your opponent gets off balance he can't defend himself. In a real situation a person isn't just going to fall down or roll out do a fancy throw like that but you got to keep in mind and aikido when they roll out like that that is a way of preserving themselves in other words when you see aikido demonstration see a basic wrist lock and the person rolls out or is thrown as a part of the demonstration the real application of the technique is not the throw it's the wrist lock and the person that's doing the falling is doing so because if they don't move if they don't neutralize that Force the risk can be shattered and I'm talking about in a real confrontation with no holes bar you can defend yourself very successfully with aikido if you approach it from a serious attitude. I say that not as a criticism of the instructor or the system like I said the technique is good the principle is good I just don't want people to get the false impression that in a real fight it's going to be neat and pretty you know and I don't want them to get the wrong impression that because it looks so choreographed that it's not something that can be used in a real situation it's just a drill to teach you a principle and it's up to you and your instructor to train yourself so that you can apply that principle in a real life situation but if you get it down well enough if you can do it correctly then it's very difficult for your opponent to defend themselves against your attack the idea again is to maintain your balance at all times and to break your opponents balance at all times and if your opponent is off balance even if he hits you the strike is going to be ineffective because in order to have power you have to be balanced and stable so I hope that helps someone my credit to the sensei.

I agree partially with what you wrote. What i don't agree is the fact that when executing proper technique, uke can resist, root, kick, spit, try all he wants, but he can not stop you. You may have to change to henka wasa, but one you start with technique, you keep uke constantly unbalanced, and/or pinned. That is O'Senseis Aikido.

Please address issue of attacking uke having one arm completely dead. Isn't this a totally false attack?

Do you really think you can move your relaxed arm against a strong man (not that uke), without move your body, but just your arms? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I like the contact dancing at the end.

@ukaszsamson1820

6 жыл бұрын

Looks just like contact improvisation in moder dance. But there both partners are participating and willing to perform the moves.

YES in a bar when rhino is happening please inform your opponent to wait while you do this.

hora tecnique don't resist but absorbe opponent power

@clintonjonker8474

5 жыл бұрын

Absorb.haha. yes. 5 to 10punches in under 10seconds

so Aikido only works against someone's energy coming in towards you with body weight not in a brawl where strikes are coming in from all angles

@eugeneaikido

10 жыл бұрын

The direction that a strike is coming from doesn't matter. We practice with attacks from the side and from behind. Aikido is the practice of uniting with the energy of an attack and then redirecting it. You're definitely right that an attack without complete body weight commitment is more difficult to work with. It takes more finesse to take an attacker's balance when he's only given you a little bit of it. We practice that, too, with wrist grabs where the attacker starts completely on balance. Thanks for you comment.

@houseofaction

10 жыл бұрын

Joel Lindstrom Have you ever sparred full contact as in your sparring partner threw anything even round house kicks etc and literally tried to take you to the ground and inflict damage on you? If not then you know jack shit about how a fight works. also the striking you learn to defend against is shitty striking, don't get me wrong i believe that Aikido can be effective but only if every ounce of the training is full contact. what i mean here is if you got in a fight with a MMA fighter you would get your ass kicked every time.

@kyraider07

9 жыл бұрын

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@Aeoninternetmarketing

9 жыл бұрын

+Rahmat Jaafar Take Sensei is quite amazing! (Ojigi)

@pedrogouveia5819

8 жыл бұрын

+houseofaction The objective of Aikido is not to "win" anyting or kickin' asses. The objective is to avoid the conflict. We do not learn how to break arms or to sending someone to the Hospital, we learn how to defend ourselves and even to not give (much) damage to the other person.

Don't take ToniMattTony seriously - he is just a troll. I see his comments on many sites about aikido - all of them are the same: he just hate it. I guess that only explain his mind setup: show disrespect about other martial arts [others then his], and that makes him a very poor student. [even worse if he is a so called "teacher" ]. For ppl like him there is a chinesse saying: "the dog dies from long road, and the Fool because he worries others". Me for example, if i dont like or care about something, i don't try to make comments after comments about that: i simply ignore it. But in his case it shows that he can't help himself then making remarks. Help from a specialist might be needed :). Anyways, it seems there is something about aikido that won't let him sleep good at night, cuz i've seen lots of his comments, and i mean , a lot. P.S. following his logic imagine this: he doesn't like a tv channel, yet he stays there all day long, raging about that channel, instead of just switch to another one. :)

@kanjitakano4350

8 жыл бұрын

+terrmosgmail Hahahaha....spot on dude

HEHE good luck..

Notice how he rolls. Lol. Notice that you cant fight. And notice that if it was a boxer,youd be sleeping. Facts

What a nonsense. Aikido is pure motion. You don't stand there just rigidly waiting until somebody comes to grab your shoulder. In a real attack you are way too late and too rigid to do anything. With all due respect this video has nothing to do with Aikido. In Aikido you start moving (anticipating) instantly as soon as your attacker initiates moving towards you. You don't just stand there waiting for contact. By the way your attacker has plenty of opportunity to punch you in the face with his other hand.