UESHIBA Moriteru Doshu - 57th All Japan Aikido Demonstration 2019 

Tristan Pottier I dread the day I meet him in a dark alley and he convinces me to front flip once he touches my wrist

Yep

Btw this is Doshu, not any aikido master. The founder’s grandson.

Keep practice them and try to recognize every technique in seminars, class, and demonstrations. But most important, ask Sensei about the techniques and corrections to perform a better Kihon Waza, most of these techniques are basic kihon (Ikkyo, nikkyo, sankyo, kote gaeshi, irimi nage, shiho nage, kokyu nage, kokyu ho, ude kimi nage, and so). At first, we all struggle with the names, but every practice you learn and improve your aikido. Aikido takes time and each one of us has a different path in the learning (the Do meaning in some ways). Good luck with your exams and keep practicing.

Well, a good part of aikidou is learning how to fall. Real scenario isn't an opponent graciously landing with a flip, real scenario is a broken joint. Ofc, aikidou like most of jujutsy branch "martial arts" is having great problems with lack of normal teachers. Personally, I like it that way, as it's more technique based with as little emphasis on raw strength. But it has gone too far into obscurity and it's being sold all over even in Japan! "People don't care about techniques, nor can they comprehend them. What people want is something sensational, and that they will get". Meaning -- leave the practical side of martial arts to the martial artists. At the end of the day it's supposed to be the element of surprise against aggressors, not a promotion of aggression through dominance.

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Aikido has moved away from combat since the end of WW2. It focuses on teaching the concept of Aiki. You will also find that traditional koryu derived martial arts concentrate on grabbing attacks. This is historical from when Japanese were routinely armed and a legacy of grappling in armour. As for real fights and self defence, check the statistics in your area and train for that. Example, where I was born, self defence training started with a gun licence application and carry permit.

@@kurtlangberg6143 I think you've misunderstood what I said. Any case, anyone is free to learn from whatever medium they wish. Your argument is not really logical. Do you have anything against activities like boxercise, kickfit or Royal Marines PT offered to the general public as fitness activities? Do you say to an Olympic archer: why do you shoot at a stationary target that's not shooting back?. These are activities for their own end, whether fitness, sport or other things more esoteric. There's Koryu training in things like yoroi-gumi, yoroi-yumi, spears and other archaic weapons of no relevance in neither everyday contemporary living or modern warfare. So what's the point for their study? They shouldn't be called Martial Arts then so you can coin a name. The Japanese already did with the terms: bujutsu and budo. Roughly, martial art and martial way. 'Way' denoting focus on something more philosophical and esoteric as opposed to the practical and combative applications and aspects of jutsu. Even Kano stressed this as the main point of his art and why he chose judo as the name for his art. If you want to learn to fight then there is no substitute to fighting. Every art from karatedo to muay Thai to judo to aikido says the same thing. My own judo teacher from before had, by his own admission, a mental block of using judo in a real fight as he's seen how untrained people hit the ground when thrown which made him squeamish. When attacked by two people on a train station, he couldn't bring himself to throw one fearing he might do too much damage. He lashed out with a punch, after taking a beating cornered, that broke the other guys jaw on both sides and restrained the other before being wrestled off by police. Police charged him and would not believe he didn't use a weapon to break the jaw as his knuckles were pretty much unmarked. Only bystanders who testified in court confirmed that no weapon was used and he threw only one punch while the guys were beating him. Why my teacher tell us this story? His lesson was simple. You want to learn to fight then train to fight then fight. He never learned to fight. He just learnt techniques for fighting so when it came to a real fight, he wasn't conditioned to fight. Only his technique, reflex and muscle memory scraped him out. He could've been knocked out earlier and the story would've been different. This is reality. As for guns, I never said they're the best. I comment only from where I came from. What does your story mean to me? Nothing. I had a gun pointed to my head at age 13... in school. First time i experienced pepper spray, same age in school. Your scenario doesn't hold for us culturally as what you describe would trigger a family or gang war that means you stop going to school or have to be moved schools. Where I come from, men are routinely armed with anything from knives to guns... Familial ties have normal people turning in to murderers. In general, what you think of as fighting arts or martial arts are seen as sports. Not self defence as such. People that worry about these things or are exposed to such things will probably be armed. Your definitions fit only where you are and how you live.

Aikido has never been meant for street fighting. Your assumptions were erroneous from the get go.

@@guillaumeerard Senseis and shidoins promote it as a very practical method of self defense. I will not defend myself in a kindergarden or a toy store. Humbly, there is a severe contradiction here that is not for me to correct, specially when I´m only a student who was promised to LEARN TO SELF DEFENSE. The act of dishonor is not mine. Thank you for taking the time to answer, despite all the violent and disrespectful comments in the post. Thank you for the contribution you make to the diffusion of the different ryus.

@@blessedrichboi Yes, I have also seen some Aikido teachers claiming efficacy, etc. but of course, everybody knows that there are far superior systems around for that purpose. Since we are commenting on a video of Doshu, it is must be understood that neither he, nor his organization, the Aikikai, make any such claim, so I feel that it is rather unfair to him, and to the Aikido community in general, to be submitted to criticism about something we never claimed in the first place.

@@guillaumeerard Bonsoir Guillaume, je pratique depuis 1990 au sein de 3A et suis membre de la DNBK, j'ai été confronté 2 fois à des agressions de rue avec une résolution pacifique du conflit, pas de bobos, ni pour moi, ni pour l'autre ! Ca fait plaisir. J'ai apprécié votre publication sur les relations entre Kobayashi Hirokazu que j'ai eu la chance de suivre une petite dizaine d'année, et le Daito-Ryu. Avec mes salutations martiales et amicales et plein de bonnes choses pour vous et vos proches