Martial Arts Classes-West Michigan-Aikido with the Jo

[tacgroup2]

I'm also a bit baffled by your comments about the vid since it doesn't claim anywhere on it to be a video on "self defense". It clearly says in the title, "aikido with the Jo"... it's not self defense.

[tacgroup2]

th all due respect

[tacgroup2]

Hey Steve, while I personally tend to agree that students should offer some good energy while they're training, I've got a sense that u have an agenda. It's fairly easy to pick out the ones who've never actually done aikido but think they have an idea about how everybody else should train. My suggestion, with all due respect, would be to stick with your martial art and let others stick with theirs. You don't owe it to the martial arts world to make everybody conform to your way of training...wi

[SuperSneakySteve]

Do you think you could hone your timing and technique better with more resistance?

[AikidoTV]

@SuperSneakySteve Sure, you could hone your timing and technique with many different tweaks and changes to practice. However, for demonstration purposes, it doesn't do much good to have your partner give a bunch of resistance because the main point that was being made was about leading and movement with the attackers timing. Anybody can resist and fight the techniques however, so we're under no delusions that these might not work the same if your partner latches on and plants their body.

[SuperSneakySteve]

@AikidoTV Thank you for your answer, but it seems to me like you're trying to teach someone how to swim without ever getting in the pool. I have never seen an Akido video with both people trying equaly as hard to gain an advantage, it's always one guy beating up on some poor lowly student. Akido looks like it has some good moves, but I don't understand why it's so limiting in it's aplication practice.

[AikidoTV]

@SuperSneakySteve Thats the problem with trying to learn Aikido from YouTube...kinda like trying to swim without ever...well, you know the rest. Its not necessarily limited in its application OR its practice, you just seem to be looking at it through your own prism and expecting something different to come out the other end. Please dont take my comments to mean I'm bashing you because I appreciate your views. Aikido isnt MMA and Baseball isnt Tennis... they simply attract different people.

[SuperSneakySteve]

@AikidoTV I don't expect Akido to be MMA, but I do expect anything called a martial art to teach effective self-defence and I think it may benifit your students to practice their art with full resistance with competent attacks, not all the time, but some of the time for sure. If you practice randori in a truly freestyle way I"d like to see that.