Testing the Effectiveness of Aikido | Can Aikido Work?
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2023
- I don’t think Aikido is effective as a stand-alone art, but I believe strong Aikido fundamentals mixed with Brazilian Jiujitsu, wrestling and a striking discipline can be effective!
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I don’t think Aikido is effective as a stand-alone art, but I believe strong Aikido fundamentals mixed with Brazilian Jiujitsu, wrestling and a striking discipline can be effective!
Really suprised how well Rokas did here. He’s really improved since he started making content.
You know the answer to that jeff
The martial arts content has been insane you guys are making sure theres levels to this!
I just love the journey that Rokas has been on, from dedicating most of his life to traditional martial arts and rejecting the new, to a complete disilusion as all his beliefs were challenged and shattered from where he rejected tradition and embraced a more modern approach to martial arts, and now seeing him after years of practice coming with actual applications of the traditional forms, blending them into his new style and finding practicality in what he rejected before hand, that's really a path to enlightenment. I think that most of all what his journey has proven is that curiosity, the ability to change your mind and to truly look back on yourself is really what it takes to get you to the next level, the eternal student is also the master of all.
Aiko don’t work at all. This is just a control sparing. Jeff was holding back a lot here against this guy.
I have more respect for this aikido guy than any aikido guy ever.
In the early days of Aikido the requirement for students was that they had to be already good martial artists in other arts. Aikido was supposed to be the cherry on top of already competent fighter. In that way it will work nicely.
BJJ black belt here, first love the channel Jeff and yours as well Rokus. I think part of the discussion is that technically wrist locks are fine, they are legit. Less viable in MMA because of hand wraps but you see them all the time in jiu jitsu, its not so much an issue of "do wrist locks work" more of "how do you train them?". To Jeff's point Rokus could absolutely become a wrist lock specialist in jiu jitsu because he is going through that trail and error in live sparring which makes all the difference
There are parts of every martial art that can be effective. Even aikido. Learn it thoroughly, take what's useful, discard the rest. Great video!
if he combined that with some wrestling and ground and pound these techniques seem like they'd actually be very effective
Haha! Never thought I'll do this, but: First 😂 Seriously though, thank you Jeff for giving me a shot to try out my Aikido with you and for not going beast mode with me so I would have a shot 😊 I felt privileged to have this opportunity 🙏
That championship was one of the best things to happen to the Martial Arts Community. Love how close all you guys are now! 👏
I've followed Rokas for a while and I think when he first pressure tested Aikido against a fighter, Aikido was all he had and so he was woefully ineffective. But now that he has MMA, BJJ, Aikido (and I'm sure a smattering of other things too) he can seemingly use Aikido if and when an occasion calls for it including in this video when he could use it to ... "encourage" Jeff's body to move in a certain direction. I think if he can use it sparingly and strategically to move an opponents body for an easy side control/modified mount, there might be some cool stuff there!
Aikido makes a lot more sense when you know that originally, Ueshiba's students were already black belts in Karate, Judo, Jujitsu etc, meaning they already had a base of physical strength, active training against resisting opponents, seeing and reacting to committed attacks and so on. So because they already had a strong base in striking or grappling, they could apply the technical Aikido techniques with the philosophy of nonviolence in an effective way - kind of like a Master's program. Of course, nobody wants to start a school where you need to already have twenty years of experience in a different art, so instead they just taught these beautiful flowing motions to people who don't have the physical strength or experience to do anything with them
This was the best aikido sparring I’ve ever seen. I’m really impressed.
Interesting and impressive. Rokas has taken the time and hard work to develop a solid delivery system with BJJ and striking arts, and in this context some of the more esoteric stuff makes better sense. Respect!
I love that Jeff is the kind of guy that anybody can having fun sparring, no matter the parameters. That's my new goal. Also, this was a fun video! You make really fun content.
Nice to see the progress of Rokas in this sparring. As far as I remember, in the beginning of his journey he was very skeptical if Aikido would work in a real sparring but he finally made it work. Congrats, bro! 🎉
Jeff always coming out with that A++ content!