Guillaume Erard Interview
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2022
- It was my great pleasure to speak with Guillaume Erard Sensei recently. This video actually only represents half of the interview, but unfortunately the second half of the interview was lost. I hope we can connect again to talk more about Aikido.
You can find out more about Erards work at:
UA-cam: / @guillaumeerard
Patreon: / guillaumeerard
Website: guillaumeerard.com/ - Спорт
I like him, he makes a lot of sense. Great video.
I appreciate the discussion of competition as a “destructive force” that takes different forms (around 19:00 - 22:00), from the mature perspective of someone who has also competed.
Thanks for sharing and congrats!
Thanks for watching!
Two of my favourite Aikido guys in one video. 🤩
Good talk! I've experienced practicing with people from other dojos/lines and yes it can be frustrating because what you think worked stops working, or because you thought you were good and realized there are better Aikidoka. But to me, this is the best way to grow and evolve.
Wonderfull Interview! I hope to see more interviews like this on this channel, and another interview with Guillaume Erard Sensei would be incredible.
I had the luck to train in two seminars under him and he is a fantastic Aikido teacher from my point of view.
In the other corner, I really appreciate your work Mr Hein Sensei, I feel that you have a really good understanding of Aikido, and most of the "youtubers" talking about Aikido don't...unfortunately
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have tried Aikido and I didn't like the way Uke is always trying to help Tori to make the technics work.
And what I have noticed is that the most of the students couldn't make the technics work if I resist.
Uke's actions are supposed to facilitate the scenario the form is demonstrating. In a real context, you wouldn't try to force it - you would simply shift to another technique until you found one that worked. Having trained at high intensity and with no set formal framework, I've found that this is generally true
We still should have competition, you make winners and losers. Should bring growth. Question is who or what is your opponent. Aikido should still have same goals, growth and adapt.
There’s only one way to grow? We don’t grow through losing, we grow through failure; losing is just one variant of failure. But it’s possible to fail without competition.
Plus we should be promoting growth through success too, which is just part of the reason budo requires dignity in both victory & defeat.
Great technique brother
I just realized that Guillaume's channel is responsible for about 90% of the aikido demonstration videos that exist on UA-cam. Holy crap, I didn't know!
Yeah, he's put out a lot of work!
Hein, please return to YT, let's see you back soon, it's been (as of Apr 2023) 8 months!!
I appreciate the comment, but it will probably be awhile before I begin making UA-cam content again. I do make weekly videos on Patreon, but it will be awhile before I release again on UA-cam. Thanks for watching!
Hello how are you? I hope you are ok I hope you can produce new videos however if you had to move away from UA-cam ouch I understand.
Hello. I am doing well. I still make weekly videos for my Patreon page- I'm just not posting much on social media at the moment. I'm sure I will resume UA-cam videos again at some point. Thank you for the comment.
Ok
I heard so many explanations from different people about what Aikido is to him. Why Aikido can't be something you put on the table? For example, it could be a martial art, self-defense system, dynamic yoga, a way to contact people, a way of developing Aiki (whatever it is), or pair meditation. It would be fun if you reply to this comment with your own vision of what Aikido is. There are no wrong points of view however may be different reactions and attitudes to replies.
Hello how are you
Hey have you ever thought of doing a seminar in a foreing country?
Sure.
Sensie what is most useful ikkyou or nikkyou and why
They are all situational, not an all around "best" only a best for a specific situation.
Sounds like Guillaume’s concern about physics and internal power is wrong or rather somewhat misguided. If you exert force you don’t get half of it back and you don’t have to be strong enough to support it or whatever he’s trying to say. Simple example: if you sit on top of someone all of your weight is acting on them, you are exerting force. Yet you don’t have to do anything and the forces acting on you aren’t any different from when you would be sitting on the floor. Torque on the other hand appears to be a concept that deserves a lot of thought but is rarely given it, even though it seems to be the concept that really helps understanding balance and stability.
I think what he is saying is, if you had a shotgun, and shoot it, yes the projectile flys out, but you will also take an equal force into your shoulder.
The projectile tends to do more damage to the target than it does to your shoulder because the structure of the shotgun spreads out that force and aligns it in a way that is manageable - but if you've ever shot a 12ga, you know there is still plenty of force coming back at you.
In the example with gravity you used the same thing is happening. You "Don't feel anything" because your body is built to easily handle those forces.
What Guillaume is saying is that, if you don't take time to build your body to take high force, you can't make high force, because it would either harm you, or knock you off your feet- just like a weak person in a bad stance would face if they shot a shotgun.
@@ChuShinTani thank you for response. I’m familiar with the concept of opposite action. I just believe that it is not a good mental model for understanding what happens when two bodies exchange forces.
My point is that you can exert very large forces (imagine Guillaume sitting on somebody) without doing anything your body isn’t built for - sometimes even without having any additional forces acting on you beyond what your body would endure normally. E.g., this theory becomes manifest in the osae waza. Now obviously, I don’t know how everybody is doing them, but in the way I e.g. apply the final hold for Nikyo, you sit above uke’s shoulder and because of your placement and the shape you give uke’s arm, uke would have to lift all your weight to get up. No matter how hard uke tries, the force keeping him on the ground is there automatically with shite doing nothing at all aside from staying put. Actually, uke pushing upwards would even reduce the force on shite's legs! (Uke can’t push very strongly because of the wonders of torque, but that is another related point.)
The way I understand Kihon practice with my Yoshinkan glasses is that at all steps you’re creating a situation where the force at the point of contact between uke and shite is absorbed into shite’s body structure while perturbing uke’s body structure thus achieving maximal effect with minimal exertion (or “stress” in the sense of the scientific field of statics, caused by torque). I don’t claim to know what internal force practice engulfs, but if this is internal force practice, then this approach to the practice by design avoids the dangers Guillaume has identified.
I think what he is trying to get at is the fact that you can't produce more force than you can handle- if you do that, you'll hurt yourself because your body can't take those forces. You have to have a more and more solid structure in order to make more and more force (safely).
Your example doesn't disagree with what Guillaume is saying.
@@ChuShinTani thank you, appreciate your answer again. I think that's a vapid statement, isn't it? Don't eat more than fits in your stomach. Of course we both may be missing the subtlety of what Guillaume is saying. What I'm trying to say can be condensed as follows: it is possible to exert great force without adding to the forces that constantly affect your body. So it's simply not true that half of every force you impart on someone will impact you (in addition to all other forces). But that is what I think Guillaume is saying.
"it is possible to exert great force without adding to the forces that constantly affect your body."
I too think this what what Guillaume is saying isn't possible and I agree with him. I also think that is Newtons third law.