The main different of Aikido in comparison to others is that: O sensei Ueshiba has taught about Love. While others were teaching how to harm the enemies, the founder of Aikido tried to teach us how to defend ourselves and let the enemies leave in peace and unharmed.
This is what I have found. The less I question its effectiveness the more devastating my Aikido is. The less I seek perfection the more polished my technique becomes. The less I have to prove, the more Aikido shines. If you just understood what I said then you have already attained the point of Aikido training (and any true art for that matter).
I learned TKD from my brother and other masters who learned from the Korean Masters who came to our country to train soldiers how to kill using bare hands...I considered myself lucky that I was able to defense myself and helped my friends out many times from bullies who were BIG guys. I was 115lbs in college and was able to knock out a 250lb bully with one punch to his temple. But I did not feel good after I defeated the bullies. I am so happy that I found Aikido which is a spiritual arts.
As a new student of Aikido, I really appreciate you putting this video up. This is one of the few knowledgeable videos on this site. It is amazing how the combination of mastering the body, mind, and soul can unleash the true power of human beings.
aprendo observando sei que tais movimento de esquiva desiquilibra o adiversario tornando vuneravel ao contra ataque muito bom saber que vcs ainda estimula o aprendizado do Mestre agradeço por tal carinho ao ensinamento .
If you do not understand "Ki". You will never get it. Try to show up at one of Aikido dojo and learn for yourself. Make sure you come to a dojo that has O sensei Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. There are too many pretenders that have been trying to show off for the money, watch out for the fake ones. The reason for the fake copies being around is that Aikido is truly wonderful.
This is one of the truest videos on youtube and I am a more informed Aikidoist now than I was before watching it, but imagine what would have happened if one of those students had athletes foot.
thankyou for sharing i learned much from this video about universal harmony, i am honored for having the opportunity to see o sensei in action as well as hear his teachings, and for this i thankyou. i found answers in this video that i have been searching for all my life . i cannot thankyou enough.
It's as if Ueshiba's not even trying hard: he virtually SHRUGS his students off of him! There's a technique or two, where they don't even seem to make contact (and perhaps didn't?) Truly, the Force was with him. :-)
thank you for uploading this video, be like the moon reflecting off the water, when your opponent try to attack there is nothing there for them to hit but water
What an absolute gem this video is. O Sensei was the true embodiment of the martial spirit. What a warrior-priest. Errr...no, kids...he didn't train MMA competitors. Grow up and learn to be real men, okay.
I do not practise the aikido, but another martial art. I cannot refrain from admiring the movements of the aikido. My sensei does not stop saying it to us, the TRAVEL(MOVEMENT) is the secret. The aikido has of very well taisabaki. Respect!
basically you're trying to become like a one man army right so you need lots of gradual training and a partner you need to be obsessed by fighting but also able to turn on and off your emotions like a TV for instance or a light. you also need a complete split personality
So which of these is more proper way of learning? The answer: either one. You can study the arts as merely a tool for survival, or you can get as spiritual as you want with them. Either way, study, learn, understand, and always strive to make yourself better at whatever you do.
I believe that this are was really made specifically for peace. Aikido has its technical advantages like fitness, discipline and wisdom and is perfect for people who are also seeking enlightenment.
Oh wow! I'm not worthy O Sensei as im no àikidoka. Thanks sooo much for the video, im gonna watch it till lessons learnt. 1. To access the spiritual world one has to train in the physical world
what i meant, broadly, is that in a well-established martial art in peacetime, the participants find themselves training only with people of the same style, and thus have no training against people with different set of skills. also in wartime, techniques that don't work are simply weeded out (together with their practitioners), whereas a club can cling to something that doesn't really work. and of course, you are totally right about the origin of martial arts.
Gozo Shioda a judo black belt with a background in other styles as well took a challenge from O Sensei. His mind set was that of alot of Aikido haters on this comment section..Gozo went to wipe the floor with O Sensei and came to dazed and confused about 6 feet from where he last stood..The next day Gozo Shioda became a prize student of O Sensei.
@malgareina Opinon here.. not arguments.. I do Chi Energy healing, I stumbled onto this when i decided to meditate daily for years...then one day I wanted to try something with a person 1200 miles away, i felt like i could send them energy so i tried and it worked. SImply amazed myself yet I pass this on, meditation develops such things as this ability yet *I can not say its real cause i can not do it *YET. What if we meditate and ask for such things as I did ask to be a healer for years. =)
Especially remarkable is how Aikido is derived directly from a samurai lineage martial art. Samaurai. They did not learn arts that were not effective on the battlefield yet everyone doubts aikido can work.
I think this: if you want go deeper in yourself you need meditation if you want increase internal energy you need chi kung if you want to be strong you need mma training but aikido it's very difficult to say what could give you.
Keep in mind these students are trained to take ukemi (movements that lessen the damage) so some of them fall or take ukemi before they are thrown because it is safer than waiting for the damage. This is another possibility. In Bujinkan I see alot of people roll before a joint lock is completed on them because they know they will need to roll anyways. It saves time and pain. Just throwing this possibility out there.
and when i said that, i mean, I can not repell people with my energy like its a wall. Yet i can change thier aura and energy fields in thier body which is alot of the same yet id say i just do not understand how to use it as a defense more then a healing. I did ask to be a healer for YEARS *at least two, everyday in mediation. Everyday in meditation, ask, key phrases, key words, key lessons and key practices in order to develop such things. All Chi or Qi gong monks meditate daily for years.
I believe you are right when you say that its instinctive for someone to facilitate a fall when they know what's coming, but at least in the style I practiced, iwama ryu, resistance was actively enforced, otherwise the technique as no meaning.
After all, Jutsu literally means Technique or Method. Literally the equivalent of a Martial Tool. Later as Japanese society changed and war and strife became less of a focus between territories, the arts started to take on a more inward, retrospective view and feel to them and began to use the end of Do, or literally "The Way". From this type of training, the student is first taught how to master himself before he can truely learn how to master that around him.
O SENSEI esta do MESMO JEITO DESDE O DIA DO RITUAL DA DESPEDIDA , QUANDO O ARCANJO LEVOU ELE PARA JERUSALEM , mas OS ALUNOS NEM RELEMBRA MAS DO FUNDADOR do AÏKIDO dos YAKUZA . uma PENA .
Aikido takes your whole body & soul --and years of training besides I don't think to many people who work for a living, raising their children and suffering everyday's problems and woe's have the extra time--for Aikido
sei que vc pode ver e aprender pois se tal movimento for feito com intenção de machucar ou de finalizar verás que alem de doer pode até mesmo quebrar os ossos agradeço sua compreensão muito abrigado e sei que se vc faz Arte Marcial vai compriender mais uma vez muito abrigado
I agree with you 100%. What MMA peeps like to forget is that street fight isn't a 1 on 1 fight where you can spend time on the ground looking for that submission or choke.
haha, it's so interesting to note the "arguments" about "mma" and such, whereas Ueshiba would have asked you all to just be his friend, Join us, then, oh brothers in the martial arts. Thank you to whomever posted this classical footage. Even Jigaro Kano venerated Ueshiba, and one of Kano's student founded BJJ.
Do mma fighters go around attacking people in the streets or in a bar or club. I think I'm right in saying Gozo Shioda taught aikido to the Tokyo police for self defence. Apparently there was a lot of female police officers then and they decided Aikido would work best for them in tackling people bigger and stronger I guess they meant men. So if Aikido is no good for self defense, then why teach it to police
The first thing one should learn when studies martial art is respect for all arts and people. MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts, but the new breed of fighters (MMA) think that this is just one style of art. Notice how I do not call them Martial Artists because they have not mastered themselves. The objective of studying martial art(s) is to master over yourself, not to brag who is stronger or better. Once you got it, people will know you got it. Using muscle power is the lowest level.
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@Naphtalem i'm not sure how to classify an art as higher or lower, but i agree that the people practicing in the dojo are a good indication as to the art practiced. i happen to train with highly supportive, friendly, dedicated crowd, and count myself lucky. my teacher dislikes overly aggressive, mean or abusive people, and shows them the door. such people have no business acquiring combat skills.
I always find it funny how even after years of martial study, it's always the same questions from people: Is martial arts a tool used for combat, or is it a way to master one's self. The answer is both. Just some arts start out training inwardly shaping the self first, then concentrate on controlling the environment while other arts are just the opposite. In the Japanese arts, most arts that end with Jutsu usually start with the physical controlling of the environment.
@aikido223411 I believe that but the problem is that there is no one who is capable like Ueshiba. Maybe there are a few who have some skill but in a true fight with no withhold....! Ueshiba on his last days said that he is sad because he cant see anyone who is following him! In other words no one understands Aikido or has the abilitty like him.
thank you kindly for your message. it's portland, oregon, though. i will probably stick with my current training, wish is tibetan kung-fu, with some occasional systema training when i need to improvise a bit.
i ve bow you sensei Morihei Ueshiba..i really want to learn AIKIDO...but i dont have money to support that..hehehehehe...but i really love this martial art.hope someday i will haved a opportunity to learned AIKIDO..If there is someone a good heart please help me to support to learned AIKIDO..GOD BLESS ALL
On Shaolin and karate, we don't know how much of we see today is what they had back hundreds of years ago. They're mostly oral traditions, oral traditions are not always consistent. It's also rather hard to tell at all how affective old Filipino martial arts were. Lots of bias history out there both ways, though I in no way morally support what the Spanish did. I am not here to badmouth or put down those martial arts or Aikido, but I still think those issues need to be taken in to account.
most of japanese martial arts were created from the real combat situation and with the concept 'one strike one kill' e.g. kenjutsu, yarijutsu, okinawan karate, etc. but most current martial styles have been adjusted to modern life thus there were a shift of mindset when practicing these. some still holds to the old values thus you will not see competition for traditional okinawan karate because competition is not why these martial arts are created.
Some MMA athletes may also be martial artists, but MMA is a sport, not a martial art. The traditional arts come closer to real life. MMA has rules and a ref to protect the participants; MMA is one on one in a ring. But in life, you don't always see the guy coming; sometimes it's 2 or 3 on 1; and there are no rules or ref. Traditional martial arts teach you the life skills to face these scenarios, not staged matches in a ring. I love the sport, but it's a sport. PERIOD.
Interesting (and thanks much for putting it up!), but did this entirely evade his period with Onisaburo Deguchi and Ōmoto-kyō? It's an important piece of O-Sensei's life.
I kinda wish he and jigoro kano didnt withhold the devastating things they knew. At one point I was told by my grandfather that when Morihei trained with Sokaku Takeda he was a fierce badass. But like all people, we go through changes that mold us into bettrr people.
true, yet an argument can be made that aikido became what it is today many years AFTER samurai did battle. but the same can be said about almost ANY martial art. also, every martial art has a weak spot. in aikido, it's the fact that being a purely defensive art, the students don't learn how to attack realistically. it doesn't matter much long-term, but aikido does seem to take longer to produce "results", if that's what you're after.
If you want go deeper in yourself learn NLP if you want to learn Mushin No mind meditate If you want increase internal energy learn Aikido If you want to be strong till your 40 learn mma If you want to be strong until the day you die learn Aikido what you think mma is strong? When you can see everything! they do? You think taking steroids and getting Tattoos makes you strong
hmm. I personally study Aikido . I am also a big mma fan. However, i do not confuse the purpose of either. I have always been a fan of martial arts. i studied Kenpo with a slight mix of jui-jitsu when i was younger. Now Aikido. I love mma as a sport to watch. But for me personally i really love that aikido is not the ego based ' i must WIN' attitude. one can be a buddha type seeking enlightenment while practicing aikido. How many thai kickboxers can do that?
That's a common criticism of aikido, but it's not as logical as it sounds. Speaking as an aikidoka, I can attest that "tanking" a fall not only doesn't work, but actually interferes with the execution of techniques: many of them only work if the uke is actively resisting. While I've tried it myself, falling in advance of a technique is a bad habit that my teachers and fellow students are encouraging me to train myself OUT of, even as we speak. No pain, no gain.
@gekiryudojo you're welcome. the comment was heartfelt. it seems to me that contrary to a popular view, every opinion is not as valid as any other. in this sense, reality is not democratic -- some opinions are based on personal experience and facts, while others come from tv-fueled fantasy, or pure book knowledge, or wishful thinking.
Karate at a basic level is a start/stop, block/strike art. After studying various kata and many interpretations of them, throws and restraints readily present themselves. Many martial arts share the roots of technique it is only the attitude of the practitioner that limits them. A throw/projection/restraint/lock requires the same principles to be effective. They also need the same skills of timing etc listed above. MMA enthusiasts would do better to learn from rather than dismiss Aikido.
@Gieszkanne.. if indeed O Sensei did say those things, i dont think he meant that he was sad because ' noone was as talented as him in a real fight-. he had plenty of physically destructive students who could easily injure or kill another person. Master Gozo Shioda being one. He may have meant that spiritually as he was heavily being influenced by the Omoto Kyo religion.
i have no idea. i guess it would depend on the samurai. we tend to idealize them -- bushido, warrior code, honor -- all those cliches. it's good to remember that samurai adopted and used guns very soon after being introduced to them. and i have the feeling that miyamoto musashi would have laughed long and hard if anyone asked about the rules he followed.
From what ive seen, it would seem like aikido matches in mma or hand grabs being aloud would end the fights almost instantly to arm bars and tap outs due to the way aikido is designed to be defensive only it also allows one to arm bar in almost any positition, all fights would end as soon as someones hand got grabbed which is most likely going to be in the first min unless they do a few dances awhile, throw a kick, same result. We all can see this.. right? So, in MMA, it must not be allowed?
What do you mean equally as valid? The principle of movement are different but equally effective? or they are close enough to compliment both arts in unison?
Aikido is greatly misunderstood as self defence, as Atemi,an integral part of effective technique is rarely shown or demonstrated. Also overlooked are the injuries caused when being thrown to the ground as trained Aikidoka roll and break fall, and get up unharmed. An intelligent martial artist should train in the style they choose, but not close off to everything else. Everyone has stuff to learn and stuff to teach, it shouldn't be a mine's bigger than yours deal.
Hopefully, my MMA-Friends, you understand now, that Aikido is not self defense - it's a way of life. And as you practise it, you can start using it for self-defense. But I guess this is not, what it was meant for.
Why do you want to become anything else but who you are now? You dont need to prove yourself or harm other people, protect all life as the universe seeks to protect you. Dont be misguided by false heroism and self protection, protect all things and give respect to those who dont expect it - thats Aikido. Understand the psyche of the attacker and your discover the purpose of Aikido.
