One of my old Karate teacher, Joe, had me attack him. I was an unranked White Belt, but I could sometimes hit him. One day he asked, in front of the class, for me to attack him (Ippon Kumite). I attacked full force, as was expected, and found myself going forward and down heading toward the ground. When I reacted, I found myself flying through the air backward, but being young, quick and with good balance landed on my feet. A few years later, I took an Aikido class and one day was practicing some moves with my partner when I thought, "Hey, this feels familiar!" I have since repeated many many times that what I like about Aikido is that, if you don't know the other guy is doing Aikido, the Uke has no idea what happened to him. Just as you mention in this video! Several decades after the above event, I asked a senior instructor about Joe and this event. The Senior said, "Yeah, Joe was a Brown Belt in Aikido." Brown Belt or not, Joe could make it work!!
Nick sensei,, after watching many of your instructional videos, I am truly impressed with not only your techniques, but most of all, your history knowledge of aikido and the orient.
aikido is an art. he is not hardening to create aiki, just an instant to short circuit the opponent's mindset. it's a high level thing, you wouldn't get it.
~1:25 Instead of uke grabbing the wrist, what if he grabs one or more of the fingers in the extended arm and starts twisting it, won't the nage be in a whole lot of trouble?
Aikido- They way of mental and physical harmony. Speed is not the goal, observation and moving before an action happen is. Its diplomatic fighting, I mean if you see somone is ready to hit you, other martial arts wait till action is completed before you do something. While aikido is observing your opponent is going to hit you, and you decide to take the first move, but peacefully.
huh - i do jiu jitsu and am curious about this kind of kazushi at moment of contact.... how does this work if the uke latches on a sleeve grip or something?
Maximo8368 Then what is expensive Aiki if this is cheap? It does not matter what style or technique, power must come from somewhere, in fighting the source of power is musculature, not in the sense of brute force, but in the sense that biologically, that is what muscles do, muscles help move a body. As a result, Aiki has to result from the muscles in a human body, it can't materialise out of thin air, that contravenes the laws of physics as well. In this Video, the sensei is showing that Aiki probably arises from the big muscles in the back and the legs, bigger muscles capable of greater effort than the arm alone. Also, the sensei isn't tensing or straining his muscles in any way, he illustrates the difference between pulling actively and actively relaxing as he executes the movement. Therefore this is not cheap aiki but rather likely, how Aiki would be when explained in less poetic terms and more towards modern day science or parlance.
Man, your Aikido and Judo videos are gold--this is teaching on another level.
One of my old Karate teacher, Joe, had me attack him. I was an unranked White Belt, but I could sometimes hit him. One day he asked, in front of the class, for me to attack him (Ippon Kumite). I attacked full force, as was expected, and found myself going forward and down heading toward the ground. When I reacted, I found myself flying through the air backward, but being young, quick and with good balance landed on my feet. A few years later, I took an Aikido class and one day was practicing some moves with my partner when I thought, "Hey, this feels familiar!" I have since repeated many many times that what I like about Aikido is that, if you don't know the other guy is doing Aikido, the Uke has no idea what happened to him. Just as you mention in this video! Several decades after the above event, I asked a senior instructor about Joe and this event. The Senior said, "Yeah, Joe was a Brown Belt in Aikido." Brown Belt or not, Joe could make it work!!
Nick sensei,, after watching many of your instructional videos, I am truly impressed with not only your techniques, but most of all, your history knowledge of aikido and the orient.
aikido is an art. he is not hardening to create aiki, just an instant to short circuit the opponent's mindset. it's a high level thing, you wouldn't get it.
Great Videos thanks Sensei. I am starting to understand the secrets of Aiki a little bit better every time I see one of your videos.
So the idea is to focus on using your shoulder muscles, core, or chest with the rest of the body relaxed.
Thank you for a yet another very informative video.
~1:25 Instead of uke grabbing the wrist, what if he grabs one or more of the fingers in the extended arm and starts twisting it, won't the nage be in a whole lot of trouble?
Found something here at 7:10 ruclips.net/video/hk96e-mc5DU/видео.html
watch Yoshi shibata sensei stuff too.
Aikido- They way of mental and physical harmony. Speed is not the goal, observation and moving before an action happen is. Its diplomatic fighting, I mean if you see somone is ready to hit you, other martial arts wait till action is completed before you do something. While aikido is observing your opponent is going to hit you, and you decide to take the first move, but peacefully.
sensei how if attack not in form of clinch but punch, how deal with it? Many thanks
So it's a case of contract and then relax?
huh - i do jiu jitsu and am curious about this kind of kazushi at moment of contact.... how does this work if the uke latches on a sleeve grip or something?
Daito ryu Aikijujutsu. Samurai were scary people XD.
Maximo8368
Then what is expensive Aiki if this is cheap? It does not matter what style or technique, power must come from somewhere, in fighting the source of power is musculature, not in the sense of brute force, but in the sense that biologically, that is what muscles do, muscles help move a body. As a result, Aiki has to result from the muscles in a human body, it can't materialise out of thin air, that contravenes the laws of physics as well. In this Video, the sensei is showing that Aiki probably arises from the big muscles in the back and the legs, bigger muscles capable of greater effort than the arm alone. Also, the sensei isn't tensing or straining his muscles in any way, he illustrates the difference between pulling actively and actively relaxing as he executes the movement. Therefore this is not cheap aiki but rather likely, how Aiki would be when explained in less poetic terms and more towards modern day science or parlance.
+Hansel Wong do not forget that science is not just Newtonian physics.