Origins of Yoshinkan Aikido 

Unfortunately, we now know that Takeda Sokaku was not a samurai. A genealogist specialising in Japanese family histories discovered that he changed his name from the "commoner" Takeda -- 竹田 -- to the samurai Takeda -- 武田 -- to give his art authenticity. None of his arts were secretive. In feudal Japan, everything was heavily documented, so that myth has been thoroughly busted. Alongside that, he made up many of the techniques -- the ones that weren't from Sumo and other arts. That being said, what he did was quite brilliant in many respects, and he is recorded as having taught 30,000 or so people in Japan.

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I am a 6th Kyu (Rokkyu) retired member of Aikido Kokikai.

Aikido is beautiful to watch,even fun to practice,but very little of it actually works.

Beautiful

thanks for sharing this video ?

Nishio vs yoshinkan? Which one is better?

actually i would argue that sugawara sensei was more dynamic than gozo

Matrial art of plise shake my hand and i will hurt you

This looks more like choreography than actual martial arts.

akido seems more like Taiji and more useful than judo. U could see Aikido Ninjitsu.. which is interesting.

Again, absolutely no resistance. It looks great but how about a real fight when the opponent wants to kill you or at least fights back. It is very impressive and probably good to prepare for the real thing. I want to see just one demonstration of an aikido master fighting opponents who have some fighting skills and fight back, and do not leave limbs extended to be easy as possible to be manipulated. Strikers typically punch or kick and recoil their arm or leg. They never leave their arm extended. Ok for practice but very silly if you want to show off the effectiveness of a fighting art. The danger is to lead a young student to believe that he/she is learning an effective martial art that will do him well against an attacker. It will only do him well against another aikido practitioner who is playing the aikido game of one person attacking and the other throwing the cooperative attacker around like a rag doll. Imagine the surprise of the youngster when his attacker keeps punching and kicking and never leaves an arm out there to be wrist locked or arm barred. I wonder how many of those disallusionec students have been badly hurt over the years. It's sad.

Why does these Aikido demonstrations always look so fake. Who in the real world really believes that these are really effective in actual situations? It’s so unrealistic for actual defensive needs . Hence, it seems Aikido is more a religion than an effective method of self defence. I know I will be criticized by the true believers

Footnote - ur ‘dazzling fight skills’ won’t work against a trained fighter