THIS Is 90% Of Aikido?!
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Learn what the founder of Aikido has said to be 90% of Aikido and join me on a journey together with Jesse Enkamp / Karate Nerd to learn how to use this skill properly.
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Welcome to the Martial Arts Journey RUclips channel!
My name is Rokas. I'm a Lithuanian guy who trained Aikido for 14 years, 7 of them running a professional Aikido Dojo until eventually I realized that Aikido does not live up to what it promises.
Lead by this realization I decided to make a daring step to close my Aikido Dojo and move to Portland, Oregon for six months to start training MMA at the famous Straight Blast Gym Headquarters under head coach Matt Thornton.
After six months intensive training I had my first amateur MMA fight after which I moved back to Lithuania. During all of this time I am documenting my experience through my RUclips channel called "Martial Arts Journey".
Now I am slowly setting up plans to continue training MMA under quality guidance and getting ready for my next MMA fight as I further document and share my journey and discoveries.
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It was an absolute honor to teach you Karate! 🥋🙏🌟
You rock Jesse!
Doppo Orochi
I would be really surprised if you found a tiger on the Savannah as they are generally not found in Africa
@@Leonardo_No_Cardio I love Doppo and all fighters from Grappler Baki
Omg, not even 2 minutes in and more info already - the difference between uchi and tsuki including tsuki pronunciation :-)
He missed out on a golden opportunity to get you to paint his fence and wax his car.
Haha. Maybe it happened off camera 😁
Wax on wax off
and sand the floor
@@MartialArtsJourney were you training in iceland at 00:20?
Daniel San should have thought of that as payment for his karate lessons, in addition to a unique form of training.
It's good that you're digging deeper into Aikido, which is ultimately what Jesse does. He finds other disciplines and origins and applies them to Karate. It's very possible you could really put Aikido in a good place with all of the "outside the box" studying you're doing and applying it. It's not just fancy throws and takedowns. I'm curious to see what your Aikido looks like in the next 6 months if this is where you are trying to go with it! Good luck!
@Bern J I guess, the concept of Aiki is everything but wrong. But the Model we use as interpretation is. Maybe he finds, that the hard way, he is going for right now leads to a soft way, because of mastery. Ueshibas training differed during the ages and the old he got, the softer became the style. But what if that was just because he mastered every thing before and saw no need anymore? The Osenseis only fault was to not put everybody through the whole painful evolution, but try to "present" only the final solution.
Maybe Rokas gets closer to the pure Aikido than anyone could've thought?
@@84erMaxe exactly, old school Aikido masters were also Judo black belts.
@Narshe J No, not at all. Rokas' journey is really just discovering that he wasn't taught aikido well, which is unfortunately not uncommon. The major school of aikido that grew from Ueshiba's family name, the Aikikai, generally became softer over the years - more philosophical, and de-emphasized the earlier "pre-war" aikido techniques and methodology that had more of the koryu principles at the fore - like atemi, and like practicing with more realistic resistance. Tomiki aikido (also called Shodokan aikido) which developed from that early era (Kenji Tomiki was O-sensei's first great student - first to be certified Menkyo Kaiden), practices with more realistic resistance and even competition (rejected by Aikikai) to help ensure full resistance training, and also incorporates atemi. In fact, the very first techniques you learn in Tomiki/Shodokan aikido are the Atemi Waza (the first group of 5 techniques of the Junanahon - the basic 17 techniques which are the core of the kyu curriculum). Tomiki/Shodokan aikido still very much emphasizes aiki (blending and harmonizing with the attacker's energy) but it is perhaps a bit quicker and the circular flowing motions generally use smaller circles, etc. These differences tend to match actual real world attacker's energy at bit better, we like to think. But I don't mean to say Aikikai practitioners are "wrong." Their aiki tends to be excellent, and there are many very effective Aikikai practitioners. But there are considerable numbers, like Rokas and many others you see on RUclips, that never practiced with real resistance. That was the primary epiphany he had, and he is now trying to bring that learning back to aikido. (Tomiki/Shodokan aikido practitioners like to think we never lost that!)
@Narshe J i respectfully do not agree. in my view the purpose of oneness and harmony in application of martial arts is to do as little harm as possible, so if you say open with a strike for the purpose of offputting an opponent to save them from harming you or themselves by harming you. you are still in the bounds of the imperfect application of aikido that use any force outside the good will that lives in the person you are sparing self hatred. once i let someone hit me on two different occasions before i chose to defend myself. when they went to hit me the third time i was tired of being hurt and used a four directions throw. i tried to set them down without accelerating but they applied a tiny amount more pressure trying to fight. we were on concrete they hit their head pretty hard luckily the person was only subdued. i could have beating this person easily boxing but in trying to hold back and harm them less i could have killed them. i know it is a long story but what i decided because of that experience was i could apply my love of aikido regardless of forms. in my life it is the open spirit, kind mind and gentle touch that i see as being the real test of it you are applying the teachings of the founder. all that said i do not believe your view is untrue, it is true, you believe it. ;D
@@rhmayer1 very good to hear, thank you.
It's great to see rokas in the Aikido gi and hakama again
ressurected
At 37 I finally took the plunge to fulfill my daydreams of learning karate and began Shorin-Ryu. 5 years later I earned my black belt. What Jesse was saying is exactly what our sensei taught us, since we were focused on self defense, not sport. Keep up your journey, discovering and growing!
Nice
“Not sport” I love these little stipulations. Like you’re actually doing anything different.
@@Brandon-ob9rg lol it isn’t supposed to be. And this garbage is a good way to knocked out. Especially with his “punching” lessons.
Congratulations on earning r blacc belt homie! That's dope. I do Shorin Ryu myself.. keep learning!!
@@Sakattack2023 You are an ignoramus. How does that feel? Good? No?
9 minutes went so fast, it is really exciting to watch. 🔥
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I know of at least one karate school in Denmark, that only teaches Aikido to black belt students. To me that makes sense.
Which one?
A karate school teaching aikido?? Or do you mean, they only accept aikidoka into their school who have earned black belts in aikido (no kyu students). This would be similar to some koryu (traditional Japanese jiu jitsu schools) who only accept black belts as students.
@@patrickrichard5948 I no longer live in that part of the country, and it was a fairly long time ago. But will try to see if it still exists and if I can find its name.
@@rhmayer1 It is (or was) primarily a karate school. But it offered aikido classes to its black belt students, and only black belt students. As a sort of advanced class.
But as I said to Patrick, it was a while ago. So not even sure if the school still exists or still do this. But I remember thinking it was a great idea, and I still do.
@@HappyCatholicDane Thanks for clarifying for me. Yes, some feel that aikido should be taught as an adjunct to another martial art, rather than its own foundational art. There are pros and cons. One of the cons is that you end up having to break "bad" habits - habits that aren't necessarily bad for the another martial art but are bad for aikido. For example, I've had challenges teaching aikido to karate practitioners who use their muscles a lot and are very "tightened up" and have trouble relaxing and being soft in their movements (until certain critical moments in the techniques to be "hard" and "tight"). Our school has classes for kids and we find that works well, teaching from a "blank slate." As I said, there are pros and cons.
I just want to say that it's actually nice to see Rokas back in the Gi and Hakama. It's as if his journey has lead him back to the starting point where a fresh perspective was needed. Even if he never takes up Aikido again, he's shown that he hasn't closed that door entirely.
😁 I have to admit it was an interesting experience. I am considering to do much more exploration in what functional aikido would look like, especially in blending it with boxing and wrestling, so it kinda makes sense to appreciate my roots once more and to put on my uniform which meant so much to me years ago 😊
@@MartialArtsJourney with wrestling sounds like a great way to test the set up to the techniques
@@MartialArtsJourney hey Rokas if you're gonna try to make aikido moves work here is a setup I use sometimes you can try it out it's: striking into the clinch and then getting a color tie and extending the opposite arm to the floor which will 99% of the time will make them expect a takedown if they are trained and just not have any idea what's going on if they aren't and from there leaving the color tie and going into a wrist lock to the side which usually results in a sweep or a tap (though the tap is pretty rare) (sorry if that wasn't super understandable since I wasn't able to call the wrist lock by name since I don't know their names)
@@rubenrelvamoniz
The last part of your statement is spot on!
The ability to set up your technique is crucial.
I studied Hapikido when I was young. My brother studied boxing.. obviously there was always a rivalry.
It started boxing with him.
Very quickly I learned to hid my kicks behind a jab.
This he hated.
It improved my kicking abilities 100%.
I also learned to move better.
There are things to be learned from many arts .
@@MartialArtsJourney just go also at judo and sambo and you'll find different perspectives of the journey.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. I remember it started out with disillusionments and now he is doing inductive reasoning as to why aikido is not taken seriously as a self-defense form. Instead of just writing it off, there is an investigation of what is omitted and what could have been. I like this version of rokas. It's not throw the baby out with the bathwater, it's figure out why what could have been isn't and what could have been would have looked like
The Hegelian dialectic. Well said!
I'm glad he's not dressing up in a weird costume either, remember that phase? I admire Rokas for always changing and growing, even when he takes weird detours it feels like he's making progress.
Well said!
Hello gentlemen And yes I subscribe to both of your channels. Jesse I just wanted to say that your explanation of the proper hand, elbow placement, and stance for correct striking was very detailed, precise, and extremely useful. Thank you gentlemen your videos are awesome and more people should be subscribing!
I practiced Aikido for 8 years until the rona arrived and I also had a single class in punching and kicking, it was on a seminar and although it wasn't as good as the training you had, it was really enlightening. I still love Aikido and specially finding my own way along with it, it's really sad that most teachers keeps the eyes closed to other arts and styles.
I feel you. Been practicing Aikido for 6 years now, But my sensei who is a 5th Dan did Shotokan Karate before Aikido and always makes time to teach us key elements from striking right.
I've heard of the older Aikido masters using techniques from other martial arts in a real fight! All of Morihei Uyeshiba O"sensei live in disciples (uchidesha) had black belts in other martials. O'sensei only accepted students who had black belts in the other martial arts. Unlike nowadays, O'sensei's students accepted challenges and won!
aiki no jutsu, taichi n all sort of "soft art", are always meant for people that already had many2 years of hard art training.. modren people forgot this, and hence all sort of "master" that never once trained in hard martial art ruin the art. many years ago when i train in aikido, i already can feel it.. those student that never (or very little) training in other martial art, really dont understand what they are doing.
sure when you first learning the technique, it had to be really slow.. but as you start to graps it, when the uke strike, it had to be really like a proper strike/tsuki.. when they they grab, it had to had proper grip, power n posture.. otherwise the nage cant learn properly..
most aikido sensei said you cant be fully resisting, otherwise it can create injury.. well........ if you student really understand grappling, it wont be a big problem, cus they can stop resist, half a second before the technique get done.. that is what i do back in the days, (i only trained in aikido for 6 month, cus my sensei move into other town), if i got the right partner.. i wont let you do your technique without resistance. but once i felt, the technique is success, immediately flowing.
Nothing feels better as a teacher than passing on knowledge to a student that is eager to learn. Well done vid, great energy-thanks for sharing.
GREAT instruction from Jesse! My perspective is that “Aikido is 90% atemi” has to do with using strikes to hold and close distance into takedowns (as the Gracies do with their downward kick in their vale tudo matches).
@The Tarot Bastard Where did he say that? Maybe with a large size or strength difference. But if the Gracie's didn't need to use striking to cause pain, but rather to manage and close distance to flow into takedowns, don't you think that would be a good standard for Aikido, "The Art of Peace"? Have you seen the early Gracie Challenge matches? In any case, can you suggest a video where what you say is being done in a full-contact match?
Man, i absolutely love Rokas.. How humble he is and his sponge-like attitude. What we have here is a true person who's passion for martial art cant be compared to anyone.. Dude, i've never seen a true martial artist doing your craft. What an honorable man... I can't wait for the day you finally put the pieces together and conclude the Martial arts journey. All the best bruh..
I've been waiting for one of you to go into more detail on this. Can't wait to watch!
This is awesome, Jesse in his do-gi and Rokas in his hakama, both in their training uniforms. I agree with Jesse, the makiwara helps with striking, whether basic tsuki/punch or shuto/knife hand strike. Love these collabs, keep them going, senseis
The Dream collab .
Thank you . Please posting such content like this 🙏 ❤️
Wow...Both of you are my favourite martial artist..I could say this is the best collaboration between you and Sensei Jesse from Karate Nerd...You are fast learner....Ossu!!!
Love these videos. You humble yourself and you are never afraid to fail which in turn makes you a success. Jesse is awesome too!!
Came from Jesse's channel. Think ill stick around.
Nice. Glad to hear it. I am planning to release quite a few videos with his brother Oliver soon as well
Thank you and Jesse for sharing. I’m speechless…there’s so much knowledge there….
Keep working and bringing the good stuff! Good luck!
Domo!
Wow, great job! This is a living example of the perfect combination of hard and soft styles integrating to become more whole.
What Jessie said at the end is one of the wisest and insightful statements, which is to strike first (to stun), then apply submission techniques.
It’s all about knowing not just how to perform a technique but, more importantly, knowing when to apply it during the fight stage.
Combining Karate and Aikido, that's great! Love Yours collaboration.
Great to see you guys together again!!
Love both channels, it was so fun to see you two on the same video!
I love these videos with Jesse. I'm excited for what Aikido may look like in a few decades if you keep this up
I have a guy who trains shorinji kempo in my aikido group. I got him to teach us how to strike because we usually aren't taught the most important 90% of aikido!
I really enjoy these clips . I feel like im relearning or sharping my skills. I without a doubt am adding to my knowledge. 👍🏻 Thank you for posting
Absolutely AWESOME video so informative and respectful and cool. Well done both Rokas and Jesse! You guys have great energy together.
Love your material! Great work my friends!
Congratulations for that great video
Definitely gonna adjust my punching practice with those advices
Fantastic video! It’s refreshing to see this journey and learning more about what seems to be some lost considerations on how to apply Aikido.
Nice to see you in a hakama again Rokas! You may have already discussed this with Jesse, but a Kiai is interestingly the reversal of the Aiki characters. Rather than receiving energy it is being projected out. Unfortunately many aikido schools don't really go into this and just make random sounds for the sake of it rather than it having a purpose.
kiai don't descrbe specifically the shout but a status of focus of mind-body-emotion on a objective
The shout could be a expression of kiai, but as locution is ALSO used to describe the shout that is used to express KIAI
Too many famous people around, looks like the Avengers. 😂
Jesse knuckle push up is really strict and tight. A sign of strength.
That’s such an awesome video. It hits very close to home. My story is actually backwards to the one you told today. I had achieved my black belt in karate. But I wanted to learn more advanced ways to roll and fall. I met an Aikido instructor at a seminar and approached him about private lessons. He was actually needing a training partner and offered to teach me for free if I would let him practice on me. I agreed and so began a long friendship. 25 years later and we are still friends. An interesting side note: The teachings of Aikido actually helped me become a better striker. I also spent a number of years training in Kali and Silat. Im always amazed by how all of these arts are so closely related. Thank you so very much for posting this video! It was a blessing to me.
I've noticed a resurgence in activity with your content and I'm extremely happy for you!
Great video. Tnx for publishing it.
You deserve a sub for this... have been watching your videos for a while now, never realizing, I wasn't subscribed... changed that immediately after you broke the Monster Board 🥋🥊
Haha, thanks Lennart! I've been in a few situations like that myself too, watching content of a certain channel for a long time and not even realizing I'm not subscribed 😅
So far, The most detailed and concised, I like how they smiled and enjoyed the teaching and studying.
Great video! Keep making great videos like this to assist people through this process.
It's awesome that you have to step outside your world to perfect your own. Great job!
Thank you, that was enjoyable to watch
Lovely spending time with quality people
I should've subbed forever ago. Congratulations on defeating the Monster.
I love the fact that you two collaborated. This was awesome
This was a very great example of how you guys did a great job showing how things worked. Comparing both karate and aikido with modern day stuff.
Excellent video! It's so neat to see some of my favorite martial arts youtubers studying martial arts together
I've had many revelations in my martial arts journey. One of them has to do with creating your own personal Jeet Kune Do...Bruce Lee's was adding wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, etc., to his Wing Chun foundation. Mine added many different styles to my Karate foundation...It's all about 'assembling your puzzle', and discovering which pieces fit well together and which do not...and learning how to express yourself, seamlessly, with what you have learned.
Rokas, I commend you for searching outside your foundation and seeing there's more than one answer to the question of 'What would you do if X happens?' May you continue to thrive in your journey.
Thank you, for the video, and special thanks to Jesse for sharing his knowledge.
Sekai no Budo!
It's so interesting to see you delve into Karate, given that I feel there's a certain degree of cross-pollination between the various japanese martial arts, and that they tend to complement one another well. I also think that, while there is obviously a lot of bad karate, and a lot of karate that isn't functional, there are a lot of concepts there that can be used. I can only say that I'm looking forward to more from you and Jesse, Rokas.
It is not cross pollination, it all has grown from the same root.
I just love this collaboration!
More content between you guys. Very good!
Cool video! If you are planning more collabs with Jesse, a good one would be about learning his distance management. Exploring concepts like 'maai' and 'ashi sabaki', and applying those concepts to sparring. Another good collab would be if he tries to use concepts from karate to make your aikido functional in sparring.
Very interesting and helpful, thank you!
Many people dislike Sensei Rokas, but he's one of the most honest aikidoka on RUclips: he was fully commited to his aikido for many years, then started to question it, found out that the way he was taught wasn't practical, decided to do something about it, was critized, kept going, decided to close his dojo, go to live to aother country to learn functional martial arts, and now he's coming back to Aikido but with a mindset to make it fuctional. He's a nice guy who got burned by saying a simple truth: The way many aikidoka practice aikido doesn't works. How many of us are willing to do such a change to improve ourselves?
@💋𝗙**𝗖𝗞 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 РR0FIL Something like that happened to me: at 34 I went to study aikido, and at 40 got my black belt. And I am blessed that the school I trained was focused on practical martial arts and not an esoteric one like the one where Rokas started. But my aikido sensei also trained in karatedo, judo and jujutsu.
It's awesome seeing you get back to your roots and make your Aikido practical. And you found the exact purpose of board breaking: It forces you to focus and fully commit to your strike. A side point is that the snapping of actual board somewhat replicates the sound of a bone breaking, which is to condition your mind to hearing that so you don't freak if it happens in real self-defense.
While my opinion doesn't matter in the slightest, I genuinely hope you do open another dojo.
Wow! You guys always inspire. Lots of good stuff to take in
Seems we have a bot issue, complicated since some of the info is relevant ... But the odds they all have questionable profile names and the same compromising picture are practically 0.
Is it really necessary to do something like this?
IT's so nice to see you together. Just fun. Great. I like it
Fun video! Ty, guys!
Great video! Congratulations.
That first punch says it all lol. This is actually a much better video than your previous work. With way less chit chat and complaining, even better. Thumbs up for this one
I just want to say that this comment thread is truly the gift that keeps giving
Beautiful collaboration
Loved the crispness of Jesse's back fist to hooking punch.
I had to subscribe bro! Good job. I love how humble and down to earth you are. Your videos are always informative and easy going. Keep doing what you're doing.
I loved this video. Also I come from a more Chinese/Korean style karate. But I love the different ways you guys incorporate stuff into karate from other sources of martial arts.
I've learned so much about punching...thank you
I'm with you again! 👊
Awesome video.I really received great pointers about punching.I do TKD,Tai Chi Chuan,and just began my training in Aikido/Aikijutsu.And I still learned a lot.Thank you for a wonderful video.Job well done by the both of you.
Another great video Jessie 👍👍
Thanks for keeping this "Old Dog" motivated to learn "New Tricks"🤗
Amazing video!
Great video guys. I’ve always felt learning both traditional and modern striking techniques is important. Like loving many different styles of music, or many different painters, learning striking from all kinds of sources expandes your horizons!
Great video! Jesse always an amazing teacher!
great as always when jessy is onboard :)
2 favorite Sensei !!! Jesse nailed it !!!!
I've been at this for a long time... this video helped me understand techniques that I've been using for decades.
Educational on fundamentals. Thanks guys!
Rokas, the way you stand and walk in your gi makes you look a lot more imposing and badass than in your early videos. This is cool!
This was beautiful. Ous!👍💗🙌🤜💪
Love the collab between you two :D
Great video. My view after seeing this is we have artificially separated these arts. At the moment I'm really enjoying cross training
Thanks for the punching tips. I many things I had learned seemed to “gel” and I picked up some new things too. It may be a simple video to most but I thought it was superb.
Such awsome video to wacth
Everyone who watches this should take the time to go back and watch Jesses face! Pride, joy, and even a bit of surprise when Rokas popped through the board!
It's been a long time since I did martial arts, yet this teacher's mannerisms show his excellence as an instructor.
great application of the skill!
Good teaching, Sensei.
The two strikes at 5:42 are so impressive
Great video
A great meetup of two of my best preferred Martial Arts youtuber! :-)
I'm really amazed by you sir your open mind and willing change and grow your very inspirational
Jessie man why I got all these thot bots commenting on my post lol 😂😆
Help I got nothing but thot bots replying LoL
Subscribed well before you brought it up at 8:27 :D Love the channel, learning lots from it!
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This was great I have torn up my hands on the adult re-breakable boards the ones meant to mimic bricks are worse
Shuto uchi is really important in aikido.
It makes easy to hit and control same time.(you can apply it on head, neck, hip joint, knee and arm)
Fast and heavy shuto is the key.
In the oldest aikido text book”Budo renshu”, I find that most techniques are shuto waza.(It’s like kata bunkai techniques)
Yes, aikido is not wrist lock jitsu.
Right, it’s garbage and ugly dance moves.
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@@shirakeme yeah, it’s garbage.
@@Sakattack2023 What is your martial arts style?
@@Sakattack2023 Its garbage or seems so to people who haven't expereinced being thrown by it. Lol.
The more I've followed you on this journey, the more I'm convinced that Aikido was never really supposed to be an art in isolation. Even the videos of old Aikido instruction seem to be operating on the idea that you "know" what is supposed to happen for certain actions, and so they skip those parts for the sake of brevity; almost as if they're assuming you already know what good striking technique is supposed to be
An excellent go. It's good to mix em up.
This is absolutely fascinating, Rokas, and I am certain it was such an honour to have Jesse on this episode.
Great descriptions regarding the hips and lower body. Very similar in horsemanship.
Great video ..
Damn, this is what I call a crossover... Nice video bro! Osuu!!
Inteligent vídeo show pure martial practice and philosophy.