Robert Mustard Sensei, 7th Dan, Yoshinkan Aikido

Robert Mustard Sensei is one of the top Yoshinkan Aikido instructors in the world. This video is a demonstration he performed in Hawaii in a seminar featuring himself, Chida Sensei (8th dan), and Inoue Kancho (9th Dan)

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• aikido
• yoshinkan
• mustard
• robert
• hawaii
• sensei

[notdrockok]

@ErikPaulsonFan sorry forgot to say, the best thing to do rather than judge arts by how they "look" is to go train. What's the worst that can happen? Travel the world, meet different masters, schools etc.  Some you will see are awful, some will be amazing. Either way you can only gain from any extra knowledge. As written in the Hagakure (and I'm para-phrasing here): the study of other ways should be done as a means to enhance your own. All the best :)

[notdrockok]

@ErikPaulsonFan Actually, there is everything "martil" about it. For example, when you prepare and train your punches, you practise pushupsm or use a punch-bag etc. In martial arts, you are training habits and unconcious reaction. So are you telling me th eonly way to train being attacked is to go outside and get attacked? All training must be done step-by-step.

[ErikPaulsonFan]

@notdrockok Neither is Aikido. As I understand, Aikido is about utilizing harmony to deflect attacks and subdue people without hurting them. Usheiba believed in non-violence after witnessing the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and modified his art with that goal in mind.

That said, there is nothing "martial" about training to prepare yourself against someone who runs at you robotically with their arm outstretched in a caricature of an attack.

[notdrockok]

I have studies martial arts since I was 7 years old. I have trained with Masters in England, Australia, New York, Shanghai and Malaysia. It breaks my heart to see so may people stop studying arts to go for quick fix brawling arts like BJJ that have no long-term martial use. I am now 35 and have taken up AIKIDO because it is a brilliant way of learning the human body in minute detail: tendons, bones, balance... know yourself, know others. Osu!

[notdrockok]

@ErikPaulsonFan Quite simply because BJJ, Judo etc that you list are very quick ways to learn to "brawl" but have very limited "martial" use. You have to remember it's not about one being better than the other, it's more like the difference between being a tank or a sniper. Both are useful in their situations. Also, the pure martial arts are very, very difficult to "show" results because life-and-death is required. Brawling, though, often isn't about killing your opponent quickly.

[davkakach]

Not as soft as aikikai or shin shin toitsu aikido, but still very good aikido.

[dmsalcedo007]

Before you post comment. Do a research first, "WHAT AIKIDO". understand what is aikido. all your're comments are very ridiculous.

[markaval]

@lazyshoggy Your sensei is right to a degree, but you'd be looking to supplement your Aikido training so you'd go in with specific goals. Do you think you can't apply stuff like kamae principles to other martial arts? :-D Take what you need and forget the rest! - go and learn how to punch and kick properly then come back and train with your eyes a little more open. Good luck in your training whatever you do.

[markaval]

@ErikPaulsonFan Hopefully my PM to you has gone some way to answering your question.

[ErikPaulsonFan]

@markaval Cool. One more question; why are so many aikidokas leaving Aikido after years of study, and learning instead arts like BJJ, Judo, Muay Thai, Krav, Sambo, etc, complaining that it's useless?