Breaking down Internal Power part 3 

I'm convinced. I've been through like 50 of your videos now since learning about you from Rokas. As a Historical Fencer you've opened my eyes on so many different concepts/strategies that I apply weekly now at practice. Your channel has genuinely transformed my martial arts. You've got a lifelong viewer.

Another spot on explanation of physics and biomechanics. I used to use these principles when I played Tight End during my Football days. Brute strength gets you pretty far, but balance, sensitivity, and the ability to change the direction of one's own force and that of one's opponent quickly in a small space is what gives you a huge advantage. So most times, the Warrior with the better nervous system wins. Which is why Aikido is a Superior Art in my humble opinion... it utilizes the principles of physics and biomechanics, trains the nervous system, and cultivates sensitivity perhaps a little better than some others do by it's very nature .. Great video.

Excellent three part presentatin, this FINALLY makes sense ! Thank you ! Bill P.

Loved this series, please more material!

Great Info! You have been on some other pod casts that was very good. I believe your approach explains Aikido the best! Keep up the Great work! The whole force angle connection is good mojo!

Fantastic video-would love videos like this to show how to use someone's against them!

Gracias Sensei su generosidad y buena intensión salta por encima de su ropa. Con gran claridad y sencillez expone un tema que ha estado cubierto de patrañas, sin desmeritar la autenticidad del trabajo interno. Al final todo y todos somos energía la física es capaz de darnos fórmulas y métodos para explicar el funcionamiento de muchas de las energías con las que vivimos no obstante Queda pendiente un estudio serio y sistemático de nuestra energía interior. La cual SI existe.. muchas gracias y bendiciones para usted y los suyos.

love watching your videos Hein's sensei, thank you for sharing, I am 100% with you there, i keep telling my students it is just physics, there is nothing magical about this, this series has been awesome 👍🙏

A lot more of these internal power videos, please. Although I already know the tricks you've already shown, I enjoy your perspective. It's always good to hear someone else's thoughts on what is going on. I did Aikido for about 7 years, and now I do Katori Shinto Ryu. What I realized is that a lot of the secret techniques are essentially applying "magic tricks", for lack of a better expression, to combat. With swords, there are many techniques that you can't even see when done to you because they apply specific angles and take advantage of weaknesses in human vision. Michael Jai White has a great video where he punches by aligning it with his opponent's vision, without engaging his shoulders, making it almost impossible to see the punch coming or judge the distance. From the side you can see the punch coming a mile away, but when you're the target, you can't see shit. The same sort of tricks are done with swords. Here are two common ones you see in almost every traditional sword school: Point the sword at the enemy's eyes, and he can't tell when it's coming towards him, allowing you to sneak up rather close before you cut him. That way the attack comes a lot more suddenly than he expected, and he can't react to it in time. Another is that you're cutting down on the enemy, and you see he's raising his sword to block, but then you find yourself losing balance, and stagger a bit. What happened was that the block was softer than expected, 受ける(ukeru, "yielding/receiving"). The defender then takes advantage of your staggering.

Thanks for sharing 🙏

I agree that you've laid a good foundation with these principles. What would be interesting, is taking those principles and showing them at work in nikkyo, or iriminage, or whatever else would make sense.

You did a really good breakdown It would also be interesting to see more how these concepts can be used in martial arts.

The grapevine is illegal in Greco. You do find it in most other wrestling styles, though. In my experience, it doesn't prevent people from getting lifted, but it's a strong deterrent against a suplex, since the guy doing the grapevine will usually fall on top, unless the guy in the back really throws the grapevined leg up and turns to the side. Therefore, you want to lift them and take them down forward, with or without a leg sweep.

Hi , many thanks for your 3 videos. Very good . I would like to know how to move a partner sideway. Many thanks Sunny regards Patrick from Mauritius.

Ive watched the whole series now. And indeed as you said this is not internal and much different from the internal arts. All internal arts dont make use of force(muscle power) changing vectors and using leverages is a low level skill which does help with martial applications obviously. Basic rule is... if your trying to overpower or use muscles to move some or stop someone its not internal. Obviously internal just means inside love the series thanks.

Really great video, man

I have watched all three of your videos on the subject and I thank you very much because you made simple what my aikido instructor obfuscated for us. making it some kind of magical power. But I believe he deceived himself believing it to be chi power.

Hi. Thank you for sharing those great informations. I would like to ask you to make a video on how to use pressure and counter pressure in different technics from ikkyo to yonkyo. Thank you

Very interesting. !!

It would also be interesting to see all the grips in aikido, such as kata dori, ryu kata dori and so on. Researching aikido it seems that people have really watered it down to wrist grabs and locks, but looking into it, I see there's way more effectiveness there. All aikido grips should be displayed and then sparred using only the grips, learning how to make them and break and what techniques to set up in them.

You looks like Lenin a bit. Especially on black an white pictures. Amasing.

Thank you; important to sniff out what is suspicious and scurrilous.

Great insights. I have been practicing this but hadn't got this far and simplified it in such a great way. What about O'Sensei holding a jo out and a bunch of students grabbing the other end and not being able to move it? Is that force redirection?

Dad strength is real. I knew it!

Can you demonstrate how someone can stand on one leg, while the opponent is pushing against their chest...but no arm links. Their arms are down on the side.

Chris, how is the immovable arm done?

There is footage from Koichi Tohei where he makes himself impossible to lift without touching or holding on to the other guy. I always figured there is some kind of trick to it, like shifting the weight a bit towards the back, or something. Do you know how to prevent the other man from lifting without touching or holding on to him?

Dear Mister Hein, Your explanations, which I appreciaete, as to the deceptions of internal power masters. But, but as an Aikido practitioner, why don´t you deal with speak a analyze Aikido? For example the late Mr. Koichi Tohei ś masters feets: such as - making heavier by concentraiting on the lowest dantien - the unmovable arm by conentrating on its lower line and leaving Chi flow via a wirsts with fingers wide open, etc. Those are strictl&y Aikido related and wildly seen on the viedeos o f that admirable master of Aikido. May he an the Osensei rest in Peace. Paul,68

What do you think about Dan Harden if you know him?

Sadly the internet is a place of "you cannot believe face value" and for sure to make sure you debunk things sadly there is no other way... You gotta go in person. Proof only comes from being there not watching videos and then thinking its tricks. But good videos otherwise.

So okay. Three videos to show you really have no idea what actual internal power training is. Sure, people shouldn’t get fooled by basic mechanical physics being deceptively used by charlatans, but that’s not what actual internal power training is about.

hi chris, love your videos and approach to aiki, there are definitely styles/teachers that claim to be internal that use these tricks, but it’s not what real internal arts use. Adam Chan, a very capable martial artist who’s studied a multitude of disciplines, including both external and internal, has a great video describing the process in a straightforward manner ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-61sLi5A5ewo.html

I do not think this is breaking down. It was just typical explanation about connecting. I hope you will break it down furthermore.

Awesome series! Would love to see more! Really appreciate your generosity of these free videos on RU-vid! 🙏 I’ve seen the lifting your partner exercise done slightly differently in different arts. First, the partner being lifted would stand stiff as a board. They were pretty easy to lift. Then the person being lifted was instructed to completely relax. This made them dead weight and made it so that the person lifting had to actually lift their full weight and made it way harder to lift them. The instructor tried to make it mystical and called it grounding. That being said, I think it is still a good demonstration of how by being more relaxed and less physically connected through rigidity throughout your whole body you make yourself harder to move and disrupt your balance. Sorry for the long reply; it is hard to write it so that it is clear enough for others to understand simply through reading. Hopefully, this makes sense.

i have done this kind of demo with little kids(8 years old or less)resisting the push from full grown adult.And thn I allways explained that is NOT a mystical power!

I would like to request a video on the strikes (if there are kicks as well) and parries from aikido. I have many more requests but this would be a good start and highly appreciated. Also it would be interesting to see an experiment on tai sabaki and ma-ai vs boxer (i.e hand 2 hand). I have many pending researches for the aiki-lab

the artificial film grain artifacts are really distracting