People seem to have a difficult time understanding that the way Aikido is taught and learned is in kata form. Its is not the way it would be employed in a real combat scenario. It is practiced that way in order to learn form and mechanics. O Sensei said that one must master form in order to be free of form.
The way one trains is the way one fights. In a fight you don't rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training. If the way you train is unrealistic and compliant you will get your ass handed to you.
Yeah, you DO fight the way you train... But practicing drills and excercises, forms, etc... Is useful... You just need to add realistic sparring to that, and you are good to go... For example... Only talking about the main globaly known aikido styles... Yoshinkan, tomiki and hatenkai are pretty good... Yoshinkan has non competitive free spsrring, tomiki has "light contact" sparring and hatenkai is "full contact aikido" with kyokushin type of striking(not at their same level obviously) and this type of aikido in the video, seems to be quite good
I really like your way of teaching aikido. You open a hole world of possibilities. Nearly all dojos teaches aikido in a boring and unpractical way, where you are never shown how to mix technics in a real combat. It's like if we were teached guitar chords but never how to put it in a song :-D
I've been studying Aikido for a few years, I appreciate your blend of traditional and practical and keeping the 'martial' into the art. Very good videos, keep em coming. Your enthusiasm is awesome and really evident. Gotta love what you do to do it well, and it shows my man.
Yes.Yes.Yes... For years there have been trolls saying kotegaeshi doesn't work. We train it hard, short and effective. So do the British SAS, French Foreign Legion, Israeli Army and so many more. Makes me laugh - so here is a technique that doesn't work? Practised by some of the worlds elite military forces... Love it.
You're actually comparing your training to that of elite military forces? How do you know those organizations use this wristlock and how do you know how they train it and under which circumstances they actually use it? There's a world of difference between teaching it as an advanced technique only to be used in very specific circumstances and using it as a bread and butter technique the way aikidoka do it. Especially in the retarded way it's usually trained. I'm always weary when something is deemed applicable for civilian self-defense because it's used by the military. As far as I know soldiers rely on weapons to take out enemies not unarmed combat, they almost always have back-up and their fitness-level, physical qualities and mental toughness usually far exceeds that of the average civilian. Because they can get away with something doesn't mean you can. A technique is only as good as the person using it and its succes depends heavily on how the opponent reacts to it. Instead of fantasizing about skills, attributes and training you don't have (SAS, Foreign Legion...) you should ask yourself how you know this will work for you. The point is that you can't really test these techniques under pressure without taking unacceptable risks so you won't know for sure it you can actually do it. Standing locks are very easily negated by moving and using two hands to lock someone leaves you vulnerable. Not to mention the well known fact that fine motor skills degrade under stress. I can see it working when someone is stupid enough to grab your clothing (they've basically given away a weapon and the hand isn't moving) after a strike that half disables them but when fists are flying? It's very difficult to do a standing lock against a striker or a grappler and if you can't do it against a trained person your skills are unreliable and will fall apart the moment you're faced with someone who can actually fight. Don't assume your opponent will be incompetent.
Thank you, many people dont realize aikido is a light version of a much more deadly martial art, I think hapkido is closer to the original martial art, but i dont know that much 'bout it, if you could comment...
hey rogue warrior..you are FANTASTIC…i wish i was taught this years back…I'm from HARLEM and i was lucky to catch your teachings and skill and method on how akido works and to add it to my arsenal.this is stuff that martial art practitioners don't want to show or KNOW & have a hard time to find someone that can teach me this art.before this it was STEVEN SEAGAL films that intrigue me so you are definitely a master of this art..and im in school with your video.KEEP IT COMING!!!RESPECT.
Your amazing!! Lenny Sly I have wondered for 30 years!!!!!! As an Aikido "aikikai" style only here in Montreal (Quebec) practitioner ever since "above the law" all of Sensei Take's videos was mystified how to learn Seagals techniques. You have demystified "his how to techniques" for years for me. Im working on my black belt in "aikikai" style but learning all yours in Tenshin style. Im a security agent in Montreal (Quebec) and I've had to use aikikai to take out numerous street people trying to pick a fight with me and I have taken them out, even with aikikai, so its like you have said how you can make it work for you. And for some reason Lenny I've had fast hand deflections, deflecting hands from me and hitting faces at the same time, using techniques from traditional aikikai but I have watched your style and I have extra arsenal in my tool box now because of your "Podcast Steven Seagals TenShin aikido" I was able to find you!!!! Lenny!! Thank-You!! SO MUCH!!! And screw those nay sayers!!! We need more talented teachers like you to keep teaching, your a natural!!!.
Awesome video Lenny Sly! After watching you demonstrate this technique, I can clearly see the difference between Traditional Aikido and TenShin Aikido. I wanted to start practicing Aikido in 2006 but I just started practicing Karate then and was training so much I didn’t have time for another martial art. I had no idea until I started watching your videos that Traditional Aikido has no practical applications but TenShin Aikido is all practical applications. I’m glad I know this now and I can incorporate this into my martial arts training. I share this video with my friends from the Karate dojo all the time. Thank you very much!!
Option 2 for me. Works well as self-defence for a 55 years young student of Aikido dancer and salesman that does not have the physical power of a athlete who studies the Marshall Arts or Marshall Artist or like you, someone who is both. Very Impressive.
Thank You Brother Sly for those powerful applications and variations of kotegaeshi. I wanted to hone my technique, and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Fucking love this video! Even 5 years later I'm still learning from this. I love the comparisons between traditional, Tenshin, and Combative because it really gives a deeper understanding of the technique and how to adapt it to new situations. I love MMA too, but I honestly laugh at the MMA groupies who don't understand that the attacks featured here are just for training purposes to learn the technique itself - and that it's up to the practitioner to adapt them to new situations, aka: MMA. You can't ask for a better teacher than Lenny Sly because he's thorough as fuck, knows this shit inside and out, and drills this into your mind with repetition. If you're reading this, thank you again for your dedication and passion to the art.
I really wish I was closer to this gym. I have no pro training and never cared but this makes me want to learn more. thanks to you brother I know now that these are the techniques I want to learn more of. I can see myself as a student of aikido it's evolution. keep up the videos brother they are helpful and definitely educational. thank you
Hey, I've never studied martial arts because I've never had the money but it intrigues me and I've been watching videos on aikido and one said that the reason they project out in original aikido was essentially so less hurt for both participants and that if you execute the techniques properly you'll bore your opponent and they'll have to leave or you can leave with the least conflict. And I afree with both methods yours and traditional. I find it commendable that despite you seem to dislike or see the flaws in traditional aikido you're still willing to teach it. Really good video 😊 thanks
I've just started learning aikido and have been watching and learning lots from RU-vid, really enjoying your videos for the real world applications. I also train in Krav Maga and I feel like your combative concepts shares similarities with Krav. Especially the added aggression that you bring to aikido and the fact that you have devised this to be used in realistic situations. Thanks!
The truth about aikido is that some random people see the most traditional way in aikido and what they see is attacks that are aikido traditional not for street and they start saying "aikido don't work" "bullshido" and more but aikido has a lot of techniques that can apply in traditional aikido fight and that can apply outside of the dojo (street&others) and because it's not easy to become that guy who can't be beaten up in , in aikido. So someone must show the internet the real street apply for aikido, which is for street fight, which will show brutally, which will save your life, which will show the "internet fighters" the combat aikido!!! And that guy is Lenny and his crew!!! Much love!!!
Wish I wasn't so old I would love to learn aikido but at 56 think I am past my prime ... Great videos Lenny you definitely now what you are doing ... Awesome stuff
Hi. You upload this video two years ago, i discover it now. So much material to work, but easy to understand for the several information and drills, sure hard to do but thanks to your explanation not so much. Thankyou so much. always the best cyber Sensei.
Aikido like anything else is only as good as the person who is doing it.This guy is a great teacher and he shows that he is very skilled.Love your videos.Thanks.
Awesome stuff, I love how you flow from one technique into another and that's exactly what I like about aikido. As soon as you get a feeling for the techniques and get a bit of feel for this, you start appreciating how dynamic the style truelly is.
I haven't found an Aikido video that I haven't liked so far. There are many out there, but you can always learn something new if you keep an open mind. Perhaps someone demonstrates a technique you already know but in a way that you haven't seen it before. Thank you.
Great video! I've practiced various forms of martial arts and aikido never seems to get the respect it deserves. The effectiveness of small joint locks is unquestionable, especially in a street scenario where people usually end up fighting and grabbing each other in close quarters combat.
One of my favorite videos so far. And one of my favorite wrist locks, And I loved the flow from classic Aikido to TenShin, to Combative Concepts. It would be great to see his same format applied to all the core Aikido base techniques!!! 🙌
im from augusta georgia.....love your stuff man...me and my wife look at your videos late night eating popcorn.....my wife is really digging the combatives and have learned alot from your stuff....keep up with the videos guys
Your the best out there for the advancement and conservation of aikido. Honestly man I love combative concepts. Albeit, we throw peace out the window, when we apply aikido, with combative intent, I think these are necessary changes that need to be made. I love this channel. Whatever video you guys put out, I'll watch fifteen times in a row. Lol
I got it nto Aikido for the same reason you did. I left, because it wasn't THIS! This is MARTIAL arts! Keep doing what you are doing! You need to find a producer and pick up the torch that Seagal dropped. You have a screen presents. THANK YOU!!
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a far cry from what it was when Royce first showed the world how effective it was a few decades ago. It has been developed, improved and polished by guys like Eddie Bravo, John Danaher and Marcelo Garcia. The Gracies don't claim to own the rights to Brazilian Jiu jitsu nor do they condemn other contemporary pioneers that have sharpened Brazilian Jiu Jitsu into what it is today. The Aikikai is filled with intelligent Dan level Aikidoka that could easily be the next contemporary pioneers that help bring Aikido into the 21st century. Unfortuantely, organizations and their politics keep Aikido a "hermit state" that refuses to budge from tradition and those same Dans refuse to have an independent voice out of fear of being excommunicated from the Aikikai.......Imagine what Aikido could be if it had the same platform and open mindedness that BJJ has. Thanks for doing what you do Sly Sensei..........Aikido Sudent, California
Great video, this is what Aikido so badly needs - evolution, a critical eye analyzing the techniques, and application to realistic combat type situations. This is how other martial arts such as Escrima/ Arnis and Krav Maga are going from strength to strength, and Aikido is getting left behind. Less tree hugging, more aggression = useful. Tree hugging and going with techniques = vicious beating at best.
Great Sensei I always knew from the beginning, that Aikido is the way of flowing with no form and you can show this beautifully. And the applications are awesome. Thank you Sensei and you have taught me a lot. Go ROGUE WARRIORS.
absolute legend of a sensei clearly explained and effectiveness in R.L scenarios not like many martial arts that fail in R.L situations keep it up more please!
Hello man, I found you recently and I enjoy very much you're content. As Fellow Aiki practicioner, looking closely of what you say, I THINK exacly the same of you. The TRUE Aikido need to be more realistic, more simple, and adapt to the times we are in. I practice an style named YOSEIKAN, and like TENSHIN AIKIDO, work on 3 basic conceps: Simplicity, velocity and efectivety, sure this is why I can't stop looking you're videos XD. KEEP THE GOOD WORK!! If some day I can accomplish beeing an instructor in my style, my objective is teaching like you and my Sensei, you two think much alike. Kotegaeshi is one of my seven tecniques, I learned a lot hearing you out.
I broke a sweat halfway through the last video. Thanks for the great vids and use of Japanese vocab . I've been enjoying dojo flashbacks from many years ago for an hour now.
Love the video! For the question "why would you want to proyect away?" my answer would be "maybe you are just looking for a chance to run away, ans therefore want to create as much distance between them and you before you go for the run" or even better "maybe you want to proyect them into something or someone that is in the direction of the proyection" But i agree that straight down is much more useful... Like... Almost any other situation, straight down is better, gived you more control on the oponent...
I think yokomen lends itself better to shihonage than it does to kotegaeshi, either way ("traditional" or with the more direct transition shown) you have to transition to the back side of the wrist with kotegaeshi, but shihonage you never have to let go, and talking about burying someone, shiho is straight up brutal. Though I agree, if you're going to use kotegaeshi, it's best to get to it.
Good video, I quite liked the pin transitions, a few comments: "Why throw them away from you?" Remember that one of Aikido's specialities is dealing with multiple attackers, projecting an attacker into a second oncoming attacker for example can be useful, it's good to know and it has its place. But I do agree that extending the arm so far out to apply the technique is silly. Also I have a problem with the term "traditional Aikido", Aikido is modern to begin with. Those passive techniques are just coming mainly from Hombu style, which is how they usually do it. With the knee to the head during the lock, when you say it's definitely not in "traditional" Aikido, if by traditional you mean Hombu then that's true, but if you mean styles other than Ten Shin, actually there certainly are Aikido styles that do this as a type of atemi.
Excellent Sly . Former aikido/ jujitsu practitioner. I enjoy your concepts and wish I could practice this . But sadly my age (67) and wear and tear on body has taken its toll . I will continue being a subscriber and enjoy the videos . God bless you . Osu !
Sir, Like the wrist lock, to the elbow lock, to shoulder lock; to the throw. The stance could also be easily said "the tripod" position with hands on your knees.
This is so good and so funny! Your perspective in opposition to my peace & harmony background made me laugh because at the same time your performance of the different styles is really good! I hope I can stop commenting now, just really appreciate your videos.
Thoroughly enjoying your videos, the way you apply kote geishi is as we do (Motoha Yoshin Ryu JuJutsu, though you'll not see this in videos in here), however we don't have the grips on the wrist and hand as you appear to. The added benefit of this way as in your video is how it reduces or removes the ability for the attacker to pull their arm back and continue trying for strikes or stabs, so it combines kuzishi with lots of control 🙂
OK, now I gotta watch this over and over...the smooth transition of the deflection shown when a strike is thrown is outstanding..excellent source of skill and knowledge. you make it look effortless..great job...fucking bringing it!!! awesome...
I absolutely love the Tenshin version of this technique and it is the preferred method of mine. However- I certainly leave the door open based on the situation to incorporate the Combative Concepts approach. When I’m not doing the breakfall version- I still go straight down with no projection. Still very quick and powerful!! it is ironic- sometimes the breakfall version is safer for the Uke than being projected! It may look softer to project someone but if they don’t know how to take Ukemi (like on the street) the attacker could be more injured which may or may not be desired outcome. 😎
Thanks for the hard work you put into keeping us alive and fixing aikido. Much love from Greece, why not drop by and drop some hints on our army? We may need it haha.
Hey Lenny you seem pretty bad ass and a lot of the stuff you show is sweet and to the point. One thing I would like to see is more of a real sparring match for you to display the moves more realistic scenarios
Joshua Gutierrez You and everyone else wants to see that too. Unfortunately the closest thing to achieve that was done in my most recent RU-vid video on my channel. That's really the only way I could do it without hurting someone. What I'm about to say isn't directed towards you so please don't take it personally. The reason why I can't do a video like the way everyone wants is because I refuse to seriously hurt any of my students and that would happen if I did DO a video like that. And that's the only way I could 100% show how BRUTALLY effective my aikido is. Most people comment wanting to see me do a video doing it for real. I will not do that for those people for the sake of their entertainment and I will not do it at the expense of my students. I have said countless number of times to those people if you want that then common by and I'll do it to you. Not one person has ever taken me up on my offer. Why? Because they just want to watch someone else take the brunt of the punishment and not themselves. I value my students way to much to hurt them seriously in any video. Also when I've offered to do my aikido to those that request a video and they instantly think I'm challenging them. When in fact I'm not. I'm saying you wanna see how serious this shit is then YOU come by and I'll show you and you can experience it for yourself. Again my statement isn't directed towards you. Thank for your comment.
THE ROGUE WARRIORS - Where Warriors are FORGED wow man I whole heartedly respect you, your principals and your value of your disciples I would never want anyone to get hurt either I totally agree with you that some proeplebjust want to see violence from the safety of their homes I wish I could come to you and learn first hand again I have an admiration for the ART I really appreciate you and your dedication to your crafts you seem like you would be an amazing instructor
If you practice Kote Gaeshi and understand it, it is actually very easy to do if the opportunity presents you see it. Lots of BJJ guys act like these don't work, well in the narrow game of sport BJJ where you are shielding while trying to pull guard and not striking, sure it is probably not valuable to practice if that is all you are after. But here is a question for the BJJ crew, if it is not effective, how come wrist and finger manipulations are not allowed in competitions??? Go ahead, we'll wait. LOL
Your videos are great. I've studied several martial arts, but I appreciate the practice of Aikido. Being able to learn and not cause each other major damage is why it is my favorite. I may have missed it, but have you done a video covering take down defense and initial grappling clinch. I think this is important and I'd like to see your take on those situations. I myself have had mixed results.
Even Sensei Take Steven Seagal, had to learn the basics of traditional aikido before he incorporated TenShin or played with the traditional style of aikido Before incorporating his own techniques since he has a black belt in karate he must have used these systems as new ideas to incorporate this into "Tenshin style" and because of Aiki-Jujitsu which Steven has learned back in the day. don't forget TenShin is only the name of a dojo school in Japan.
I appreciate your showing how this works. I'm a very rank amateur but I want to learn. Forget Final Cut it is way to much program for what you are doing. IMovie should do everything you need.
ppl need to understand the feet movement of aikido in order for them to understand how to get from one side to the other plus they need to learn how to fall too... i am teaching this kid who is a friend of my son and we watch your vídeos a lot can u plz make a Lil 3 or 5 minute vídeo showing ppl how to move and how to fall plz? thanks for taking ur time to read this
