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very rare video I had never seen it ! tks a lot

Gracias sensei Tony

j'ai fait de l'Aïkido jusqu'à devenir 3ème dan. Et puis un jour je me suis fait agresser et je n'ai pas réussi à me défendre. Je me suis beaucoup remis en question en tant que pratiquant. Qu'est-ce qui était à blâmer : l'art ou moi? J'en ai conclu que c'était moi. Depuis j'ai changé et je suis passé au Karaté et j'estime que c'est plus efficace pour se défendre. Mais l'Aïkido me manque beaucoup, c'était tellement agréable à pratiquer et tellement intéressant... j'espère un jour pouvoir refaire de l'Aïkido.

Thank you for posting this.

Awesome timing and body mechanics,technique Tony Shihan,a true inspiration

Amazing!!! ❤❤❤❤ 😊

Did Tony ever have a dojo in Watford?

Je regarde souvent j’aime bien là encore beaucoup d’explications pour progresser merci à toi Tony à la prochaine vidéo

Great spontaneous Kokyu Nage power Tony Shihan! Strong and stable hips too...

Often totally underestimated. (I did.) The warm ups, as we often call them are so important, for more reasons than one. If only it had not taken me so long to realise it. They are the time when you focus on your own body, taking time to connect mind with movement. Take the head turning from side to side as an example. The connection of head to body via the neck is very important. I have seen this exercise done by many high level teachers in aikido and tai chi. I often wondered why they gave it such prominence and carried it out so slowly. When you turn your head slowly and try and use the base of the neck , feeling its interaction with your shoulders and spine, you create a whole body connection, herein lies a worthwhile value in the exercise. A chance to connect mind and body in a meaningful way. Warm ups should not just warm the tendons and course the blood, They are a wonderful opportunity to engage whole body with mind. In the end, more valuable than techniques. Only an opinion.

A chaque fois que je regarde c’est toujours aussi preci merci pour ce travail

Only now do I see what is important, extension, whole body and spirals. Students need to see the essence of what is happening and not just the shapes. You can make the shapes but without the internal connections the effect is not the same. I'm sure this is why O-Sensei said 'the gods won't allow it to be explained'. What a fascinating lifelong journey Aikido is, even if few there are that master it. Very clear demonstration, I wish I'd seen it with these eyes back in 95.

Explosive techniques and I like the connection with Jo and Taijutsu how this is executed. These Aikidoka students were amazing too! Thank you for sharing more of these videos Tony Shihan!

A great video Tony Shihan! I can see why you were enjoying teaching in Russia in those days - the students are very keen and strong practitioners doing great break falls. Your ability to execute techniques spontaneously is marvellous. You are making our Aikido look credible, Martial and strong in my view! I love when you share these videos! Thank you.

The best,,

Impressive!!

Thank you for sharing this powerful video Tony Shihan. A really strong Kokuy Nage delivered with precise Awase and good attacks.

Ce sont les explications qui me séduises bravo à toi

Hi sensei Would this be classed as shiho nage ura gone wrong and you strike leg instead which is why they do ukemi.

Chaque fois que je regarde je suis enchanté de tes explications bravo

Wonderful video Tony Shihan! The Kokyu Nage power with the Jo is very impressive! and very good Awase with the shaking hand - really cool!

Thanks for sharing this explanation of ki no nagare applied to shihonage. Do you still think and teach (as Saito sensei did) that ki no nagare should only be practiced from 3rd dan and above? That would mean that 95% of the aikido practitioners will never get the hang and feel of it. Imo, that would be a shame, considering that to be able to effectively use aikido as a martial art, the practitioners needs to develop speed and flow. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Really nice video Tony Shihan! Power with Shiho Nage is clearly demonstrated…

It seems to take forever to be aware of what our bodies are doing where are my elbows my feet. What is the angle of my hip. ? Thank you Sensei.

A wonderful demonstration of the effect of 'nonjudgement' or 'no want' on both uke and nage. Though activated by one, it affects both and allows aikido to exist in the way I am sure it was intended. My opinion, but it makes sense to me. Thanks for sharing, very useful for the principle alone. Richard.

Fantastic ❤🈴

Thank you for sharing 🙏 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

Je regarde souvent j’aime bien cette technique me réconforte je met aussi le pied derrière peut-être avec l’age l’on bouge autrement bravo

Very interesting, going to Iwama would be too far out of my comfort zone, I know I would have suffered mentally and not gained from the experience. In some ways, listening to your story, I have been given what was needed, without stepping a foot in Japan. A friend recently shared a thought with me as regards 'ghosts'. She said, 'the ghosts we think we see, are not really there. What is there, is an energy, our mind might be capable of sensing that energy and interpreting it in such a way that it expresses the energy in the way we might understand its meaning. It might give us a vision (or sounds) that best represent the energy that is present.' Some of us are more perceptive to these energies, some hear things, some see auras etc. Or much more. I do think that buildings can hold energies. I recall the Orwell dojo always felt good, then we all went away, to Russia perhaps, and nobody trained there for a week or so. The first night back in the dojo felt unwelcoming, the energy just did not feel the same as before. It soon returned to 'normal' after a few days and weeks. The sensing of energy is very important, the trouble is, most of us have lost the way to connect. Just glimpses in life, tell us, there is more to know.

didn't mention the breathing from top to botom once? hardly fine detail...

Gracias SENSEI Tony saludos desde Sudamérica, Uruguay

Hi Tony, at 66yrs old I had my very Aikido lesson today, and that was a really interesting technique. Thank you

What is great about this? Everything, For a start, I suppose everyone is younger, slimmer, fitter. The teaching, the dojo, the interpreter Natasha, the students - all just wonderful. What a pleasure it is to be reminded of such an adventure with new friends. The food, the sauna, the camerarderie, add to treasured memories. I can't do the aikido but I can remember the event with great fondness. So many keen and enthusiastic students. Thank you for posting the video.

Parfaite demo lors d’un stage en Russie bravo encore

Very insightful observations about the nature of practice. The comment about "trying to understand the teacher's mind" I have heard before from different teachers: Kimura r.e. Sagawa, Kono r.e. Ueshiba, but hearing it from Sargeant Sensei today it really hit home. <(_ _)>

I found this very interesting. Sometimes we have to be patient and read between the words, but the essence of truth, (pravda) is there. I was fortunate to have travelled to Russia and shared part of this journey. Very few there are in this world that put in the time and effort to train in aikido like those Russian students. I am grateful for having been there and shared time with them, some beautiful memories. Talented people with little of their own, but always willing to share, or give, what they had. It would be easy to fill a book with stories from the land of Rus. They did much with little ... the west does little with much. Thank you for the reminders of distant friends.

🙏🙇‍♂🙇‍♂thanks for sharing

Thanks Great Sensei.....ouuusss

Great teaching Tony Shihan!

Cela me semble parfait j’essai demain à la salle merci pour tes compétences

🙏🙇‍♂🙇‍♂ very good explanations, thanks for sharing

ty for sharing

Interesting to watch and it is a very good video showing point by point. Really good to see Tori being someone smaller to show how the technique, if done correctly, can overcome someone much stronger...

Encore jamais vu cette façon me plaît beaucoup bravo Tony

🙏🙇‍♂ Thank you Sir

If anything Iwama Aikido is the only solid heritage left from Osensei thanks to the 23 years of shugyo that Saito sensei had, hearing Osensei's thoughts, explanations and experiencing his technique first had. That heritage is vastly more in-depth than any of the students that studied for 5-10 years at the with Osensei at Aikikai. If it goes Aikido is gone, and let's face it, it isn't doing well these days having been infected with all kinds of New Age ideas and philosophies while lacking much of the martial spirit.

Toujours aussi bon merciTony

🙏🙏Thank you very much Sir