The World of Yoshinkan Aikido

Welcome to the beatiful world of Yoshinkan Aikido. Check out this most subtle of martial arts and find out about its strange history.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• yoshinkan
• aikido
• budo
• martial
• arts
• Japan
• senshusei
• bootcamp.

[Ronnock]

By "free-style" fighting, do you mean, "sparring"? If there's no sparring, how can they ever really test their theories of what they practice? I want to learn Aikido (Aikibudo more specifically), so I'm just merely curious--not a nay-sayer, heheh--.

[fightjapanrc]

@Ronnock That is the million dollar question for whole host of martial arts that do not involve sparring or any other kind of isomorphic training. If you have never trained for war how will your body and mind really know how to respond?

[simong1972]

Hi Robert, great video, brings back lots of memories! All the best, Simon

[fightjapanrc]

Thanks, Simon. I liked it. I am still trying to improve it.

[cbase4]

There's a common misconception that a black belt means you are a master. In Yoshinkan Aikido, it means you know how to do all the basics correctly. Once you get your Shodan, it is time to learn Aikido.

[Biastrua]

Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it.

[AikiDanne]

@UltimateZell well that is very "Aiki" of them -.- but still quite awesome^^

[notdrockok]

@fightjapanrc remember it's also important to remember that sparring and fighting are very different, and sparring can actually lead to over-confidence and complacency due to the lack of "dangerous surprises".

[mhmani21]

@cbase4 We have the same mentality in Shodokan Aikido as well :)

[adaxaroo]

I've trained Tomiki Aikido for 33 years (competed in Japan twice) and found this video delightful. I hope his series is picked up by a commercial network. Well done!

[kenokurose]

@cbase4 PERFECT! Never saw such a wise comment here as this one!

[HomunculusProject]

So you actually live in the hombu dojo as an uchi deshi?

[0196601930]

It was a pleasure seeing the smiles on the childrens faces, truely clear minds and innocence. Very enlightening.

[Ronnock]

@UltimateZell I didn't see these tests...so how am I to know if they actually did it or not, much less worked or not? This is my issue at the moment.

[UltimateZell]

@Ronnock they did test their theories.. if you watch "this" video, you'd come to know that the founder of yoshinkan dojo provokes yakusa men in the streets of Tokyo to practice their aikido.