Stefan Stenudd, aikido instructor in Sweden, 7 dan Aikikai Shihan, showing aikido basics and techniques. I started to practice aikido in 1972, when I was 18 years old. Through the years, the Japanese teachers I've practiced for the most are: Toshikazu Ichimura, who was Swedish national instructor for 20 years, Shoji Nishio, Nobuyoshi Tamura, and Seiichi Sugano. Presently, I teach aikido and iaido (Japanese sword art) at Enighet dojo in Malmö, Sweden. Apart from that, I'm a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Of course, I've also written a few books about aikido and the martial arts. Check my website for more about that, and about me: www.stenudd.com *About comments on my videos* I read all the comments I get on my RU-vid videos. If I feel there is something for me to say about a comment, I will respond to it - when I have the time. I subscribe to the RU-vid guideline that comments should be respectful. Let's stick to common decency.
The biggest difference between the Aiki of Budo and the Aiki of Ueshiba Soke seems to be that there is an exhibitionist non combat lesser show of effort. Perhaps the commercial or civilian element gave way to such things. In aikijujutsu one would be using 2 hands instead of showing off that only one can be used. Instead of waiting for gravity to take effect or the technique to work the same on all bodies we take initiative in unbalancing and trapping as well as strikes to move disable and stun. This is combat when necessary to use. Aiki doesn't mean love exactly but that was his definition. If you love your enemies and not protect them you have a strange love. Therefore if someone attacks you survive first and stop them second. Do not assume a position of superior tactics or abilities. People say things don't work and blah blah... I'm saying the modis operandi is wrong to be too nice or peaceful when truly threatened. It's very innocent and endearing but in warfare or combat and your children under the knife one cannot believe that innocence is a true quality. We must assume we are ignorant of something at all times and aware of the lesson therein.
Come ti avevo detto in precedenza sei forse in questo momento il migliore maestro di Aikido in circolazione ! A parte seagal quando era molto giovane ora e invecchiato molto male comunque il tuo Aikido a movimenti piccoli si può fare in spazi veramente stretti!
@@StefanStenudd peccato che sei in Svezia ed io in Italia ; mi sono dovuto accontentare del kali filippino ; mio fratello sostiene che unendo il kali al aikido si otterrebbe l'arte eccelsa perché si invecchia e l'Aikido possiede la strategia migliore in assoluto un motivo molto semplice si fonda sul evasione e come diceva il fondatore l'Aikido non combatte mai e quindi il rischio di soccombere e sempre minore ( penso che questo concetto debba essere applicato per qualsiasi sistema)
Even the greatest samurai could only disarm an expert opponent about 3 out of 10 times. But training for it is better than not training for it. I believe the jo is the most elegant weapon.
@asev1969, as I say in the video and its description, this is not to be regarded as a sufficient defense against knife attacks, but a way of conditioning functional reflexes. In other words: how to make our reflexes beneficial and not detrimental when we are surprised.
I have a question there is a specific move that I don't know the name of but I can do. It's where you use your opponents arm and push it like into their neck under the chin? What is that one called?
Thank you, Sensei! We go through all this in our club, and I perform these techniques. At the same time, the exam does not require repeating, but performing at least 6 kokyu naga techniques on your own. Your video is a good guide in this!
Great stuff by one of the best. Stenudd Sensei is advanced. This particular lesson is tough because we cannot feel his touch. I encourage all serious Aikidoka to check out this teacher's vast video repertoire.
I was so sad looking at that and realizing that even fifth Dan of Aikido does not know what to do and how to take a correct posture. How is it possible? Looking down, concentrating on hands, forgetting all basic principles. So unconfident.
@@StefanStenudd You are right. I'm just learning and I probably cannot do it better. However, I think I could. But we speak here not about me. Anyway, thank you for your attention. I personally consider you as one of the greatest masters with a lot of understanding.
Master please made video about all stance aikiken and also all stance aikido Thank you very much, this is very important to me. If you don't mind, please make a video about these two topics
Thank's mr Stenud for this good " real punch attaque " but in aikido we don't see a counter against those real punch ataque , we only see a conter of " telephonique punche" coming from one meter slowly .
I still wish some (sport mannequin?) manufacturer could team up with an Aikido sensei to develop a "practice torso" that could be used to gradually and safely learn the different finger, wrist, elbow and shoulder locks of the art. Basically it would be the upper body of a person mounted on a nonmovable pedestal with arms that are fully anatomically correct in regard to the arms and joints and such, from the fingers of the hand ups to and inc. the shoulders. I imagine such a practice dummy would be very useful to understanding and learning to apply the different Aikido locks (e.g. Sankyo, Nikyo, Ikkyo, etc.) w/o the use of a living partner/uke, such as when one is not available to the practitioner.
You are definitely not doing that if the person enters with the proper technique and dedication. Proper execution requires you to control the person's wrists, elbow, shoulder, hips, and balance. If you do that, the other party is not going to perform sankyo on you.
@bujin5455, I agree. As I say in the video description: "Kaeshiwaza is practiced to improve the aikido techniques so that counters become increasingly difficult." It needs to be experienced and trained.
@@StefanStenudd I didn't read your video description before posting, as I watched your video as a youtube short. But I just read your description, since you mentioned it. I think Kaeshiwaza is mostly a matter of kokyu ho. Though my understanding of kokyu ho is very different then what I see most dojos teaching. For me, kokyu ho is the study of identifying the line of ki between two haras, and then learning how to dominate that line. Basically all kokyu ho techniques are extensions of this idea. It's a specific form of masculine Aiki, a very yang (yo) form of blending. Whereas most Aikidoka focus on mastering the yin (in)/feminine form of Aiki (getting out of the way of energy (yin), verses changing the energy's path (yang)). In fact, most Aikidoka only understand Aiki from the feminine stand point, they don't realize that a masculine form even exists. O'Sensei started and ended every class with kokyu dosa, because masculine Aiki is the bed rock of Aikido, and kokyu dosa best exemplifies it in a way you can't ignore. When you're sitting on your legs, and uke's energy is bearing down on your pinned hands, you have to change the line of energy (yang), instead of changing yourself to the energy (yin). When you perform Ikkyo, for example, this technique is supposed to be executed with exactly the same masculine Aiki energy that you develop in kokyu dosa. Once you master this, you should be able to channel it through any technique, executed from any part of your body. Fundamentally when you do a reversal, it's not really a matter of timing, or exploitation of poor technique, it's a matter of superior kokyu. Between two people who actually understand Aikido, the person who has the deepest understanding of Aiki will ultimately express the technique.
@@bujin5455thank you for elaborating so generously on the subject. I have no doubt that if one is significantly superior in whatever way, the other will have trouble managing any technique as well as any counter. The joy in the practice is to help each other improve beyond previous shortcomings.
@@StefanStenudd yes, of course, the point of practice is to improve over time. Anyway, hopefully you found what I said to be constructive. Though it is difficult to explain principles like these through written communication (verses physically demonstrating it), so I have no idea if you followed my point, or if I sounded like a weirdo. I hope it was the former. Take care.
