Aikido - Ikeda

[FAOSKI]

Such a fantastic clip. Depth, breadth, quality, simply amazing.......

[AIKILV]

I've been to many of his seminars over the past few years and I still can't exactly replicate the movement he is doing in this clip. You can't get the full effect of what he is doing here by just watching. You have to have him apply it to you to really feel what is going on. It is very subtle yet powerful. Go to one of his seminars and see for yourself.

[mokchuangchieh]

@AIKILV

Just came back from his seminar in New York.

Honored to be there and also to be uke in several demonstrations.

Yes. What I felt was something different and not visible by eye.

[AgileMJOLNIR]

Aikido is the real thing, in fact I prefer this art over the traditional punching and kicking arts for 2 reasons;

1) Alot of fight end up in close quarters where most kicks become useless and any many cases effective punching techniques.

2) As you get older Aikido does not lose it's effectiveness however jump kick and spinning kicks do.

Just my 2 cents.

[ggaden]

it's not just you. it took me about 4 years before i felt i could do anything approaching a real "self defense" type of thing and had some confidence. after 10 years of 6 and 6 days i got a little better. figure on the 1000 time rule. it will take you doing a technique about 1000 times with many uke before you will begin to make it work well. the trick is not to count the 1000 times. it also helps to have a real deal teacher, i was lucky to find two.

[Rickdeckard2020]

Maybe its just me, but I think Aikido is very difficult to master and that it is quite difficult to actually use outside a classroom initially.

[TheSilence1]

I have been training with aikido for a year. Before that I have trained in jujitsu for a year. Some of the jujitsu techniques took a relatively short time to learn to do well while others I didn't learn to do well at all. After a year all the aikido techniques we practiced become easier to do well everyday I practice them because they are mechanically simpler. There are a set of basic movements from which all the rest come. So I feel like I learned more from aikido.

[Adarall]

aikido IS hard. i've been training since i was five. im a blackbelt now, but it's my fav now(I know 7 different martial arts and variations)Aikido is great and if you combine the defensive power of aikido and the power of karate o tkd.great!

[TheSilence1]

domo arigato gozaimashita