Taking Falls

I met Jeremy Bornstein a decade ago when I used to train in Aikido. This is a video of him throwing me around. It turns out I'm really good at falling. 3ric Johanson filmed this with our Phantom v.12 camera at the Hackers conference. The whole thing happens in about 1 second, but here it is slowed down by a couple orders of magnitude. Be sure to watch my fingers and leg turn to butter as they smack on the ground. The aikidoka in the audience will certainly enjoy critiquing my technique.

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Many thanks to Mischapex for the music.

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[tahn07]

It seems like the throwing person was kind enough not to lower the axis or your turning motion and gave you room for a complete ukemi.

[gulllars]

This is really interresting to watch. Aikido is one of the martial arts i would really love to train, but don't have an opportunity to.

I hope you will continue uploading videos and not be deterred by the so far (relatively) low view counts. Your videos are like undiscovered gems.