I agree with aikifan77 -- it's all pretty good aikido. Most of it is very good! My only constructive criticism would be that in some of the takes, the attacker is allowed to just kinda stand there for a little too long (0:41, 0:53, 1:07). You have to keep uke moving or the energy stagnates. It is a tough job to balance safety with realism in demonstrations, and most of the time the techniques are quick and clean, as they should be.All in all real nice! Thanks for sharing.
it's all pretty good. About it looking more like hapkido, well of course it does, hapkido is just korean aikido with fancy kicks thrown in. It's definitely aikido. As for it not looking very smooth, well aikido used in combat or self defence wont look smooth and pretty, neither does any martial art. I liked it and have very few complaints about it.
I agree with aikifan77 -- it's all pretty good aikido. Most of it is very good! My only constructive criticism would be that in some of the takes, the attacker is allowed to just kinda stand there for a little too long (0:41, 0:53, 1:07). You have to keep uke moving or the energy stagnates. It is a tough job to balance safety with realism in demonstrations, and most of the time the techniques are quick and clean, as they should be.All in all real nice! Thanks for sharing.
EnsoAikido 10 months ago
need to practice "finishing/controlling". you fight like you train....
kenfo0 1 year ago
it's all pretty good. About it looking more like hapkido, well of course it does, hapkido is just korean aikido with fancy kicks thrown in. It's definitely aikido. As for it not looking very smooth, well aikido used in combat or self defence wont look smooth and pretty, neither does any martial art. I liked it and have very few complaints about it.
aikifan77 2 years ago 3
Y'know, I think thats exactly what Mike would say. LOL
parrspen 2 years ago
call it as I see it mate lol
Where does this club hail from?
I'm in Norwich England
aikifan77 2 years ago
Very cool, I have great memories of England. This was actually filmed in Oakland, CA. but I'm in So. Cal now.
parrspen 2 years ago
this is looking more like hapkido to me and the techniques don't look very fluid but that just may be me being me
kumdokid 3 years ago
i like the video but your right, thought the same about the throws, not very fluid but anyway...
fusionsmarty 3 years ago
nice
bgcheese 3 years ago
Cool I've done those too
ThePanther178 3 years ago
this is what i call good self defence
leafarnando 4 years ago
very good application of aikido. was getting frustrated only seeing bad aikido videos on here but this is very good.
shadowfuck 4 years ago