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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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. :-)
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
@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. =)
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.
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.
Bakyt Bokoloev hi. =) Free Universal Peace Energy Healing video I would like to offer anyone who reads this. The video assists to heal the dna and ancestral lineage and is very powerful. It will assist you on your spiritual path. Many blessings and peace. Video on my channel. Peace
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 .
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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?
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.
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
John Gilbert It actually depends on one's culture. And remember his mental state is not as same as ordinary people. Through meditation he has elevated it to new level
+John Gilbert do you actually train in any martial art or are you just here to troll? because a statement like that comes from a person who does not train and has no Idea about the function of training in any martial art. If there is no safety and education in the training then they might as well go full out to try to kill each other! But I doubt you would volunteer to train like that as a beginner of a low grade! it would end for you very quickly! fighting a trained master. The "reverence" for the instructors is also respect for their ability's and lack of respect is met with a harsh lesson in Reality! Usually in the form of Pain! so ask better questions I advise.
if only i had a penny for every time mma is brought up in commentaries on youtube. it's as if the thousands of years humans spent developing the fighting arts count for nothing now that every couch potato is an expert due to the hours spent watching what is essentially a spectator's sport. sure, there are some tough, fit, dedicated guys there kicking ass. but there have been tough guys killing each other with their hands for many, many years prior. surely they knew a thing or two?
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?
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.
@kalevraa -- According to O-sensei you are a master of Aikido because of your 'mouth' and not your fist. I'd like to see as many clips on here done on Hakko-ryu.
This is the Nihon Terebi (Japan TV) documentary "Aikido" (1961). This version is the Aikido Journal-dubbed version, with a new(er) translated voiceover by Stanley Pranin. This looks to be transcoded from VHS. There's other editions on RUclips, as well as a really-clean version hosted by AikidoJournal.com (with an addition intro by Stanley Pranin).
Samurai would follow rules? Highly doubtful. War is survival at all costs. Bushido came into existence in peacetime, as the bushi created ways to give reason for tehir continued position in Japanese society during peacetime.
I don't get in trouble, when I meet one in the street. If someone gives it a try, I'm usually not there, where he wants me to be. I literally don't get in these guys way. Ah, yes: If you meet someone in the Street, being MMA-Expert trying to use it: Pray he has no knife, pistol or something else in his hands - you will die. There's always something that could kill you.
I don't understand why ppl can't accept some martial arts as a health pratice or just a way of fun. why everyone has to evaluate this or that art as bullshit because "it doesn't work on the field". Let ppl just have fun training aikido or tai chi, or some style of kung fu. We just don't have to blindly believe that the thing we pratice is the "secret art of overwhelming every living being". We have to just do what we like and remember we aren't superman.
@caaikiman1 I am not sure nor am i arguing a point here. I just thought id say, In MMA they have gloves on. Its harder to grab the hands this way. I am unsure if you are even aloud to grab hands in MMA, You can not strike to the back of the head for one. So, there are limits and rules to MMA also, very little yet, my opinion here, if hand grabs were aloud we would also see lots more take downs. So how can we say whats best when in all tournaments there are rules and limits to what you can do.
I would keep my head up a little when I bow in respect of someone or if its to Aikido Moreini Useiba for he is there and a teacher of his martial arts! He was different than Jano the great of judo kine and is different than Bruce lee and and a better tye of martial arts handing and moves of Aikido!
@AmericanAztec915 yes sir, was not my point to offend.. (dang character limits). I was short with my words though its not easy with in these tiny boxes. I did not mean any offense if taken that way, im all smiles and nice... no harm intented.. =)
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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.
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.
This guy was one of the last old school mythical martial arts masters. You do not find people living or studying like this anymore. Saddens the heart.
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.
Hermosas técnicas de evasión desde México con amor y justicia, felicidades a todos los practicantes de Aikido.
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).
Yes, Ego is the biggest enemy of Growth!
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
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. :-)
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.
O-Sensei = Father of Aikido
Saito Sensei = Son of Aikido
Domo Arigato O-Sensei & Saito Sensei.
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!
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
I think I spot Koichi Tohei in one of the dojo sessions.
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
Fantastic!
aikido well used will give you the understanding of being in harmony with everything
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.
RIP and impart all your wisdom upon us!
I love AIKIDO its such a beautiful martial art
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.
@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. =)
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.
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.
Thanks for uploading. You just earned a new subscriber.
Thanks for great. Masters. Thanks.
Bakyt Bokoloev hi. =) Free Universal Peace Energy Healing video I would like to offer anyone who reads this. The video assists to heal the dna and ancestral lineage and is very powerful. It will assist you on your spiritual path. Many blessings and peace. Video on my channel. Peace
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.
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.
Love this - thanks for sharing
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.
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
you're absolutely right.
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.
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 .
domo arigato gozaimashita Sensei.
Greeting from France
what an advanced human being and enlightened Master, but forgive us for saying that these attacks are stereotypes
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.
you are welcome this guy has issues to say the least. but he wont be bothering us any more.
@kalevraa THANK YOU!!..I wish we could mass post your comment across all martial arts videos on RUclips.
A great piece of information
Thank you
great vid , many hanks
@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.
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.
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.
sounds great. what are the principles of these arts?
Amazing documentary
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.
well said.
Wish I was a student of his.
@MrOphachew well, that should be interesting. if i may ask, what kind of martial art do you practice, and where? just curious.
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.
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.
thank for you video
@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.
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.
How about a higher rez version of this? I recognize that this is old footage, but I'm getting serious piexlation. Thanks!
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?
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.
@caaikiman1 Have a question for you, Who did Ueshiba take on? Please elaborate.
Morihei Ueshiba ...
You can be, by doing Aikido in everyday life using the princip in every conflict you face.
AWESOME!.....INFO!
I acknowledge that. :)
@RobMonty248
Could you link me the goodies? Thanks.
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
Tesshin ryū Dojo aikido tai chi and yoga will give you happy life and mentally fit 😊 that will help you feel positive energy
'O' great sensei I bow to you
John Gilbert It actually depends on one's culture. And remember his mental state is not as same as ordinary people. Through meditation he has elevated it to new level
+John Gilbert do you actually train in any martial art or are you just here to troll? because a statement like that comes from a person who does not train and has no Idea about the function of training in any martial art.
If there is no safety and education in the training then they might as well go full out to try to kill each other!
But I doubt you would volunteer to train like that as a beginner of a low grade! it would end for you very quickly! fighting a trained master.
The "reverence" for the instructors is also respect for their ability's and lack of respect is met with a harsh lesson in Reality! Usually in the form of Pain!
so ask better questions I advise.
Good comment!
if only i had a penny for every time mma is brought up in commentaries on youtube. it's as if the thousands of years humans spent developing the fighting arts count for nothing now that every couch potato is an expert due to the hours spent watching what is essentially a spectator's sport. sure, there are some tough, fit, dedicated guys there kicking ass. but there have been tough guys killing each other with their hands for many, many years prior. surely they knew a thing or two?
@kalevraa - Wow! you have access to all of that? All we really got here is Tang Soo Do.
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?
you are welcome
why so much chit chat about this documentary ?
@MrOphachew thank you kindly. if only i was as good with my fists as i am with my words...
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.
well, portland has lots of martial arts, for some reason. the only one seriously lacking here is wing chun.
O-Sensei.
Unless you're referrring to Morrighan O'Eshiba, his Irish cousin.
bad ass indeed....
damn that dude was a badass
@theomen49 absolutely.
Y 👁️ 💕 O-SENSEI! ☯️
@kalevraa -- According to O-sensei you are a master of Aikido because of your 'mouth' and not your fist. I'd like to see as many clips on here done on Hakko-ryu.
When was this video/movie made ?
This is the Nihon Terebi (Japan TV) documentary "Aikido" (1961). This version is the Aikido Journal-dubbed version, with a new(er) translated voiceover by Stanley Pranin. This looks to be transcoded from VHS. There's other editions on RUclips, as well as a really-clean version hosted by AikidoJournal.com (with an addition intro by Stanley Pranin).
@kalevraa I dont know, watching 10 hours of MMA obviously makes you more knowlegable than someone who has studied Aikido for 30 years.
Was he all the time with gray hair even when young??
"You cannot pretend dantien. You will be found out."
@kalevraa You write with uncommon wisdom.
Samurai would follow rules? Highly doubtful. War is survival at all costs.
Bushido came into existence in peacetime, as the bushi created ways to give reason for tehir continued position in Japanese society during peacetime.
I don't get in trouble, when I meet one in the street.
If someone gives it a try, I'm usually not there, where he wants me to be. I literally don't get in these guys way.
Ah, yes: If you meet someone in the Street, being MMA-Expert trying to use it: Pray he has no knife, pistol or something else in his hands - you will die. There's always something that could kill you.
@kalevraa the best comment on here Thank you!
I don't understand why ppl can't accept some martial arts as a health pratice or just a way of fun. why everyone has to evaluate this or that art as bullshit because "it doesn't work on the field". Let ppl just have fun training aikido or tai chi, or some style of kung fu. We just don't have to blindly believe that the thing we pratice is the "secret art of overwhelming every living being". We have to just do what we like and remember we aren't superman.
Rex's martial arts from Nap dynamite. I should talk. I will always be a novice.
O'sensei. Agatsu Dojo
Thank you. But don't you mean, "Acknowledge that, I do"? ;-)
@caaikiman1 I am not sure nor am i arguing a point here. I just thought id say, In MMA they have gloves on.
Its harder to grab the hands this way. I am unsure if you are even aloud to grab hands in MMA, You can not strike to the back of the head for one. So, there are limits and rules to MMA also, very little yet, my opinion here, if hand grabs were aloud we would also see lots more take downs. So how can we say whats best when in all tournaments there are rules and limits to what you can do.
May be :) Sorry, I'm from a far far away galaxy and had forced to use the Google translator. :)
OSU Morihei Ueshiba.
I would keep my head up a little when I bow in respect of someone or if its to Aikido Moreini Useiba for he is there and a teacher of his martial arts! He was different than Jano the great of judo kine and is different than Bruce lee and and a better tye of martial arts handing and moves of Aikido!
@AmericanAztec915 yes sir, was not my point to offend.. (dang character limits). I was short with my words though its not easy with in these tiny boxes. I did not mean any offense if taken that way, im all smiles and nice... no harm intented.. =)
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