Re: Takeda Shihan Enbu (unedited)

ok.. here's the full deal. with all the long distance jedi/dragonball/ki stuff...

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[therickmon1]

Curlywolf, also take a look at Seishiro Endo Shihan Sensei. Copy and paste

成新会合気道発足. Watch them both very closely and tell me what you think.

I had the Honor to attend a seminar with Endo Sensei and it was amazing!!!

Tell me what you think.

[curlywolf]

@therickmon1 There are 2 that I always record at the All Japan Aikido Demo, Takeda Sensei and Endo Sensei. For the most part, all the other demos are showing the basics.These two guys always show what they are actually working on at their stage in aikido and indeed at their stages in life.

[therickmon1]

I've been practicing Aikido for 31 years and believe me there's such a thing as "No Touch Throws". You must know the theory behind it. It also requires lots of study

and practice. The problem I have with some exhibitions is that we tend to show things that are really not necessary. This sensei maybe great at what he does, but it gives the public a disillusion of Aikido. If you can't explain the theory, why show the technique? I also teach Argentine Tango and the performances are he same.

[curlywolf]

@therickmon1 Very well said!

[thewakasensei]

I'm a beginner. but I think this teacher is ridiculous. It's impossible to overcome all these enemies without touching them. This is not aikido. this is a joke. and I'm sorry because those who do not practice aikido and not know this wonderful art, can think that is nonsense. a kind of magic art. but isn't so

Aikido is a martial art ... MARTIAL ... and is effective on anyone. So you can not do appear aikido as a stupid thing .. Because it is not ..

[FeebLe26181]

@curlywolf anyone can say thanks for the comments when comments have been made regardless of who posted a video. You know, Freedom of Speech and all...and since you say there is such a thing as a no touch throw (lol) then brace yourself, I'm throwing you through the internet right now. 

[curlywolf]

@SilkenMasseur hi, i didn't even know there were this many comments here. i'm not sure what you responded to with this message, however, it was said eloquently. thanks for the comment.

[SilkenMasseur]

@rojasfantasias greetings, I took your comment to possibly mean that the demo was a prearranged series of actions, rather than an example of what happens in regular training, spontaneous not rehearsed.

While an exhibition, it's not done to entertain or impress students into joining etc. It's to show the research into movement that has marked Takeda Shihan's career. Research finds many things we later discard in favour of others. It's risky to "put it out there", and courageous.

[SilkenMasseur]

@curlywolf no, he knows that some (experienced aikidoka among them) will walk into his atemi because they are insensitive to the threat. I've seen it happen, especially to people who usually train statically, rely on strength or leverage or pain to control. It's not that he's controlling the uke, they are responding to his movement, in many cases falling away from danger before it's even close. A hazard of this training is that we can end up doing it automatically c.f. responding.

[SilkenMasseur]

@paulsmd ..... paul, if you were standing in front of him, why would he need to put you on the floor? With no energy there is no need, and nothing to steer, to work with?

[SilkenMasseur]

@dllhell If a friend mouths words to me across a noisy party and I pick up his intention and respond to that silent communication, is that magic, or sensitivity and blending?

[SilkenMasseur]

@aiki3d And he would appreciate your sincerity. When a 2 yr beginner with 10 yrs in judo and Wing Chun, he asked me to shomen. I did it gently (I was worried I'd hurt this 50 yr old :-). He gently parried upward in shomen and dropped me to the floor and said "more, more, harder", I went again twice more each time harder and was dropped like I'd hit a wall and then the floor. He was effortless and smooth, and weighed under 100lb. I'd only seen the outside of the movement.

[rojasfantasias]

@SilkenMasseur Did you really want to comment on my post? I don't see the relation between your comment and mine.

[SilkenMasseur]

@rojasfantasias By exhibition are you implying that it's a pre-arranged performance? While it can look like this, it is not what happens when training with Takeda Shihan. After you've experienced the impossibility of attacking this 70 year old man, you'll understand.

[HonshinDojo]

@thewakasensei I know it look weird what Takeda Shihan does. But it´s all about ukemi practice, intention, sensibility and expansion of consciousness.it takes a lot of practice and a willingness to break many mental barriers do what he does. We generally tend to fix our mind to throw the other while he say gather, be one and move together changing the direction. If you have the chance to meet him, you will understand, maybe it´s not the kind of practice you are looking for and that's fine