EP52: Why is Aikido Misunderstood? - The Aiki Dojo Podcast

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The Aiki Dojo Podcast - Why is Aikido Misunderstood?
In Episode 52 of the Aiki Dojo Podcast, we discuss how Aikido might be misunderstood by not only practitioners but by the general public. It comes down to how Aikido is classified. Aikido can be exercise, a martial art, a philosophy, a discipline and maybe even a religion. But, what we see might not be what we are looking for and thus we fall into a misunderstanding.
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The Aiki Dojo Podcast’s goal is to translate traditional Aikido and traditional martial arts training into the modern world. The podcast is hosted by David Ito Sensei who is the Chief Instructor of the Aikido Center of Los Angeles and he brings brings over 30 years of Aikido training to the podcast. The podcast is co-hosted by Ken Watanabe Shihan, Mike Van Ruth, Aikido 4th Dan, and Bill D'Angelo, Aikido 4th Dan. Let us know if you have a topic that you would like Ito Sensei and the team to discuss in the next podcast.
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18 июн 2024

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@nobelwarrior3880 21 день назад

Your teacher and O Sensei is literally the reason I began my career..his videos are not only great with detail but therapeutic in his spirit..calm and serious..kind and humorous. I hope I can come train with you all one day. JS..from the Chi🙏🏾

@user-sg8kq7ii3y Месяц назад

I think the reason many people misunderstand aikido, and they make fun and mock it is mainly because in many (notice I did not say "all") aikido schools, the training methods do not appear to be realistic to them. So they see uke comically running at nage with out stretched arms, trying to grab his wrist. Or they see uke deliver a theatrical, exaggerated "karate chop" type of strike from overhead. They see Steven Seagal doing "randori" against five guys who attack him one by one, and he easily throws all of them, with many of them going flying through the air even without him touching them. And they question it because they wonder, "How the heck can that be real when even a world champion boxer, a really good wrestler, or a really good BJJ practitioner would have great difficulty defeating just two people, let alone five. In addition, since many aikido schools do not pressure test their techniques, that causes added doubt in people's minds. So when people see this, they laugh because it does not look genuine to them. So I think this is why aikido is misunderstood and receives a lot of trash talk. In my experience, it is rare for people to doubt the authenticity of western boxing, muay thai, BJJ, judo, or wrestling. Because all they need to do is test it out for themselves at the gym, and they'll quickly find out how helpless they are against a trained practitioner in any of those disciplines. When I first started BJJ, a tiny 110-lb female blue belt locked in a triangle on me so fast that before I even knew what was happening, she was already squeezing and pulling my head down. She kindly released the choke when she realized that I didn't even know what was going on. It's a very humbling experience to see 90-lb 7th graders are having their way with grown men.

@Californiansurfer Месяц назад

1989 I was working on my psychology degree, I remember taking a philosophy class, the teacher gave us the final. He said, define love. Damn, I couldn’t write anything. I asked the teacher if, i could take the class with him again. Well, the second time, I learned of phenomenology which was from husseral who taught heidgger. I then learned of Kitano Nishida and Zen Buddhism. That was my search for what is the meaning of life. I still am searching. I am still a biginner 😅

@raysim13 21 день назад

I'm beginning to understand the way of teaching you received from Furuya Sensei. It does sound abusive at first with the yelling and attacks. But I can also look back at the people in my life, uni teachers, bosses and managers etc, and the ones that did yell at me, did help me improve and made me a better person/worker. But at the dojo, in a western country and being non-Japanese, I don't know if we could apply those methods. I certainly don't want to yell and lose my temper.

@SPin2091 Месяц назад

Love the podcast, thank you 👍👍

@AikidoCenterLA 26 дней назад

Thanks for listening and watching.

@udruzenjeprofajlera Месяц назад

Excellent thank you for your effort.

@AikidoCenterLA Месяц назад

Thank you for watching!

@josephjohnson3097 Месяц назад

Very good podcast, thank you for sharing.

@AikidoCenterLA Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@BrigidoAnayaIslas-nr7cb Месяц назад

Excellent!

@AikidoCenterLA Месяц назад

Many thanks Brigido!

@blockmasterscott Месяц назад

I think it’s thought to be useless because it’s not made for competing in a ring or cage. It’s made for police officers, bouncers and prison guards who all use Aikido in the job on a daily basis. There is a reason why prison guards, bouncers and police officers don’t use MMA, boxing or wrestling on the job. Otherwise they’d be using it. They use Aikido. And what these nimrods that watch MMA don’t understand and cannot comprehend is that people that practice Aikido don’t have the slightest interest in competition.

@AikidoCenterLA 26 дней назад

100% Thanks for watching!

@Vengeance8888 Месяц назад

Aikido is a martial art that works until old age. Imagine if u r an old guy living in a village and a bunch of unarmed dudes comes to rape ur village . Even the old age will pick up weapons to fight. And if that old guy is a master of Shihonage, wouldn’t it be hard to grab his hands to stop him from stabbing his enemies? This is why o sensei say all u really need to master is shihonage. Aikido is used with a weapon.

@MrTankaHoe Месяц назад

newsflash, it doesn't work on unwilling opponents

@vids595 Месяц назад

In what way is Aikido misunderstood?

@sebozz2046 Месяц назад

I believe Aikido to be useless

@vids595 Месяц назад

It can be useful in disarming overly committed attacks from the untrained, or controlling those over whom you have a significant advantage to begin with.

@rojcewiczj Месяц назад

it depends on how you train it. If you learn how to move in balance and time your use of power it wont be useless, because you'll have learned what's most important in marital arts and fighting.

@sebozz2046 Месяц назад

@rojcewiczj ok and do you think that is valid for iaido? I plan to learn it, not for fighting skills, obviously, but because I love katanas.

@rojcewiczj Месяц назад

@sebozz2046 yes

@blockmasterscott Месяц назад

Policemen, bouncers and prison guards all over the world that use Aikido on the job might not agree with you.