Aikido taisabaki on sword attack (tachidori)

[Celsus1984]

Have to choose right moment, think, it is very hard

[manolo1130]

puras mamadas.

pure sucks

[Izerath2]

Wont work at all against anyone that actually knows how to use a sword.

[DiabolusIgnis]

@Izerath2 Or anyone who doesn't without exception strike vertically.

[mindaugasa]

bullshit

[donoberloh]

The reason the attacker loses his balance is that a Kendoka shouldnt think they are kenshi. The techniques is clearly kendo and as such has apparent weaknesses.

Nihon Bugei do not only step aside but also apply atemi waza and nage waza without allowing the attacker to move beyond their reach. Why dodge the attack only to end up at square one again?

[harrymacdowelgy]

Perfect uke style to practice in-the-moment mindless state. However after you can do that, you have to train the tai sabaki for continuous attacking uke.

[aikiboy24]

@Aikidostenudd I am a big fan of Nishio Shihan..it is too bad that they don't have a Nishio dojo where I am right now so I just just practice Hombu style. This video is also a great exercise if one wants to learn how to deal with kicks and punches as well ...is it not? Thanks for posting the vid...Ichimura is awesome and so are you!

[Aikidostenudd]

@aikiboy24 Yes, it's the same taisabaki against just about any attack. With multiple attackers you need to move forward, contuinuously, with every taisabaki.

[Capoeirista81]

This video does look like a load of bollocks to me.

[Axl18289]

Epic video. It's so much fun to see you Stefan in my recent age. And comparing myself with you is also a lot of fun. ^^ I hope I'll become such a lovely badass like you. xD

-The "heavy-knee-master"

[thkun33]

i quite agree with unikad, by observation, the Uke lose his balance by himself without any affected by tori, it is irrational in martial arts. Unbelievable he is a 6 dan in Iaido. I never seen an Iaido practitioner at this rank swinging and tsuki like this. In fact, his shoulders are too tension. I thought he should be a beginner cos he seems cannot hold his bokken firmly. Iaido is about live or death and never had unnecessary and irrational movement. I don't think he knows what is Iaido

[unikad]

But I know many aikidoist do it this way..Not a good way for martial art. I must be ready everytime. As an attacker I must try to attack everytime I can. Learn more and if you need less, it´s OK. Learn less and need more..that´s not what aikido should be like.

[unikad]

I like Stefan Stenudd sensei´s aikido. It´s one of my inspirations. But what I´ve been taught during learing not only aikido but even in hojo, too much "enthusiasm" in attack is ineffective. He attacks, sensei Stenudd avoids and the attacker is doing what? It should be - I attack, tori avoids and I must be ready to hit again. Making myself be not ready to attack again is...not too good to learn defence against this kind of attacks.

[unikad]

Aikido is great, but there´s one big mistake going on in this video and what lots of aikidoist make. Uke loses his balance after he cuts with the sword. That´s a bad habit. If there´s no technique applied on uke, he should be ready immediately for another attack. And another and another. If I cut and lose my balance, I´m not a good martial artist.

[Aikidostenudd]

Unikad, I believe the mistake is yours. Uke is not losing balance, but advancing very forcefully - as a part of the exercise. Ichimura sensei was 6 dan Renshi in iaido at the time. He knew what he was doing.

[TheRogueMonk]

@Aikidostenudd he was probably dramatizing to show the effect of his miss.. of ocurse he could have chopped more.. but then you can also move out more..

people seem to say "well in the streets its not so fast" well in the streets the aikidoka would be faster too... so how is it not gong to end up the same?

it snot like in aikido we just do it in one speed and one motion or one beat ..

in real it would be the same only faster simply

[TheRogueMonk]

@Aikidostenudd what i was trying to say maybe i said it in poor worlds i tried to say in real it would not be the aikidoka that would be hurt cause the attacker is faster because its on the street.. but it woul dbe the aikidoka who would neutralize the attack faster as well.. people seem to forget the fact tha the aikidoka could also just increase his speed to match whatever attack is coming.. also people think its not possible to make it look nice, it snot true.

[TheRogueMonk]

@unikad I am no master in aikido but if you putt physical structures next to each other even robots and you give them the timing , speed and power it does not matter how real or how strong they are if they are matching each other they will give you same outcome every time!

it is not like the one is more limited then the other one... both person have same limbs and same reaction ability.. so why would being faster and stronger a hindring? infact stronger motion is advantagous to aikidoka.

[TheRogueMonk]

@TheRogueMonk it is probably not how good the aikido technique is that is even the matter its how relative it is.. if it works in theory maybe it spossible THEN if its possible in slow practice then its possible.. if its possible in fast practice basically you see the idea.. it does not go downwards the difficulty naturally does not stop it goes upwards .. so what imean is in even aikido the difficulty has endless upward spiral it doe snot stop at safe dojo speed it will alwways grow upwards.

[TheRogueMonk]

@TheRogueMonk and that is not a limitation of AIKIDO its a limitation of the student if he cannot find in himself the speed timing and power to come up to that height of difficulty.. the principals of aikido are very relative and free and limitless .. cause they are not based on phyuscial limitations.. in theory there are many variations that you could do if you discovered them, this breaches a broad spectrum of techniques that include other martial arts.. its not a box with a few things.

[TheRogueMonk]

@TheRogueMonk to end this iw ant to say that many people treat aikido as a box with a set ammount of rules and techniques and then ithat is it and if its not enough then aikido doesnt work.

that is not how martial arts work and specially not aikido which is based on very much older martial arts then itself.

aikido is not a thing .. its an art , and art is always abstractively growth potencial.

[unikad]

@TheRogueMonk Honestly, I couldn't get what you were saying. All I was trying to say is that even a very strong uncontrolled attack is not good for martial artists. If you are a bit clever it's easy to deal with it and during training it doesn't teach you that much. The idea of aikido is: Learn more and use less. On this video, if I were the man with the sword, I would cut, look where the tori's standing and immediately cut again. This is what it should be about. What you learn as uke, you can

[unikad]

@TheRogueMonk use as tori. The principles of clever attacking. Again..learn more, use less. You must be ready to attack after the previous attack. As a good uke=teacher, you must be ready for another attack to teach tori be ready for another strike. You train his reaction, you teach him be prepared if you are still free to be attacking. As for the strenght and speed of the attack...it's OK to give a real strenght and speed into the attack. The harder you attack the harder you fall. That's OK.

[TheRogueMonk]

@unikad well we do train like that in aikido .. but we start train with slow and elibrate movements this is good.. then we can speed things up and have more evade more cuts more dynamic. but in a demonstration i think its good to end it faster .. but you rright i like to see a more agressive demo where uke is agressive more then nage and nage can evade more.. usually aikido demonstrations rae stright forward and ends fast which seems strange sometimes cuase this is not what happens all the time

[unikad]

@TheRogueMonk Oh yes, I think the attack should be as real as possible. And of course, you need to start slowly and learn the technique properly. I just commented this video, because I can't understand what they are trying to do. Strong cut is OK, but not what he's performing afterwards. If he misses the tori and he doesn't apply any technique, he should immediately strike again. As a master in iaido, as I was told, he should know that. Or the video demonstrates what?

[TheRogueMonk]

@unikad i think it demonstrates how in aikido to avoid attack from sword.. its not demonstration of a complete sequence of event , it spoint in case probably .

[232323C]

@unikad i think its that they practice that way...it looks better for demonstration to show how effective the taisabaki was however, i would bet if in real life he would not attack in that way......it;s obviously foolish to commit all your energy and leave no room for a counter.....i don;t think the guy is foolish so go with i think they just practice that way for demonstration purposes.....good point you made!

[unixtohack]

@unikad, this is a good point you made. I will think about this and try to find out how O-Sensei solves this problem. Do you have any idea to get a solution about his?

[unixtohack]

@unikad, this is a good point you made. I will think about this and try to find out how O-Sensei solves this problem. Do you have any idea to get a solution about his? ... I forgot to read all the responses about this item. Stenud Sensei is telling the right thing.

[unikad]

@unixtohack I train under shihan Masatomi Ikeda's system (7th dan) and we also train HOJO, which is antient japanese martial art or "ZEN in fight" training. It always emphasises that too much enthusiasm is harmful. If you strike that strong and lose ballance like in the vid...what is it good for? What does it show? It's quite easy to deal with it because the attacker is not ready to react afterwards. Even for a demonstration it's rather useless or it can only show wrong attack.

[Aikidostenudd]

@unikad, I wouldn't say that Ichimura sensei (who, by the way, cooperated with Ikeda sensei) lost his balance when attacking. He kept his kamae and his ability, although attacking forcefully. I know. I was there.

Of course "too much" is too much, but there is also "too little".

[smeeklar]

Man I bet you were never that behind again from the attack where it hit your gi... excellent techniques

[aliyasser786]

bulshit video, even me kid can dodge summit like dat mate

[Geodemons]

should have swiped his legs, or slashed him a couple of different diagonal manners.

[aikidotraditionnel]

Super - Tori relax

[2008August30]

Why dont you do something a little more challenging...hahaha...like 2 attackers? Anyone can do one ;=]

[cgotopo]

Arigato Stenudd Sensei!! nice vid!!

[sfan71]

It`s da shit!!!!!!!

Ichimura-sensei 100% "batsu"!!!!!!

Stefan 100% cooooooool.

Says Stefan Jr.

[Aikidostenudd]

Yup. Some serious s-t.

Says Stefan Sr.

[megajin]

Love you Stefan, hehe BTW I will try to buy your book. Regards.

[Aikidostenudd]

If you get it, I hope you like it :)

[rasmustheone]

he's not holding back with his attacks, that's for sure :) glad you're still around... someone has to maintain your website.

[bideojutsu]

Wow, that tsuki was so close! Great way to train movement momentum. Cool vid, thank you. :-)

[flintstonecom]

Great. Thanks for the video, Stefan!

[aikikarl]

Very nice! I really liked it. Thanks, Stefan!

[lupocephalic]

Heh... I'da been a little scared too, m8.

Nice vid. Thanks!!

[ninjaportugues2011]

Awesome!

5 stars!

[teddywinroth]

Läckert.. ett fint litet stycke svensk budo historia.

[kenshin715]

Awesome!