Yep...a combination of memories being distorted in the retelling (the old Telephone game), power of expectations, group herd mentality & lesser-understood tricks of physics Great content!
O sensei's story is a story of a man who fell victim to his own reputation. His pre-war training and take on Daito-Ryu were good and effective. We can't deny this as his career rise was well documented and followed by other high ranking martial artists of the day. His religious awakening and his training style, coupled with an almost cult like following post WW2, led him to believe in his own metaphysical and supernatural powers. In a nutshell, he basically destroyed the martial art that he first developed (a simplified, modernized version of Aikijujutsu) and turned it into a vehicle for his newly developed spiritual beliefs. This is why Aikikai Aikido is neither a true budo, nor an internal martial art. It falls short in both end of the spectrum. Also his insistence on "non-competition" in Aikido has had negative implications for the style.
This is really interesting. It speaks to the human need to believe in something bigger than themselves- the need to worship. It happens a lot with martial artists who aren’t good fighters, but they want to believe their training/belief system is valid. So a much easier way to do that is to try to live vicariously through a powerful sounding folk hero/idol/teacher than to just do the hard work and learn how to fight.
Really great point Ramsey. It's interesting to look that at combat sports, especially between practitioners, there may be respect towards 'the greats', but I haven't personally heard of such type of worship. Yet fantasy based martial arts are full of it. Yip Man could be another great example. Maybe this makes the term 'fantasy based martial art' even more appealing, since then the fantasy is created over generations and it's not only based on the belief in unrealistic techniques and training methods, but also in a fantasy based belief of the legendary figure: "He defeated everyone with this martial art - thus it means it works" 😊
@@MartialArtsJourney This conversation is stupid. I'm not good at math, but that doesn't mean math doesn't work. I tried to play the guitar and didn't learn it, but that doesn't mean that the guitar isn't a good instrument. You are talking about AIKIDO as if AIKIDO was bad, but YOU DON'T KNOW AIKIDO! It just means YOUR AIKIDO sucks! You are in the USA, why don't you look for SHIBATA sensei in Berkley and don't tell him that AIKIDO doesn't work? Go to his Dojo, he will divide you into two pieces like he does with a toothpick!
You can imagine the scene, Morihei and some buddies sitting around having a laugh, reminiscing about old war stories. "hey, remember that time we were dodging bullets over in Manchuria..."; some eager student overhears it. "oo, the master can dodge live bullets", Master get's asked about it in class and to save face has to come up with some bullshit story.
I've had stories about Morihei Ueshiba passed on to me over the years that are just crazy - and reported with a straight face by people who otherwise have a reasonably grounded and sceptical outlook on life. Those stories included the bullet lines tale, stories of him encountering the spirit of Budo as a pillar of fire and even stories of him being simultaneously attacked by a large group and teleporting to another part of the room.
Body mechanics explain 98% of anything real. My Hsing-yi teacher was pretty powerful, trained from childhood several hours a day. One of his favorite sayings was "it's not mysterious".
I've been watching your journey for the last few days as I'm trying to pick some effective martial arts while also obtaining discipline. Gotta say, I really like your grasp on English and your fair view of things. I've become very disillusioned from Aikido by your videos and see it in a new light, though not negatively, just it wasn't what I thought it was after having been informally taught it for a few years. There's a lot of sometimes unnecessary and downright harmful mysticism in a lot of martial arts that can skew our understanding of things. Keep going, you're an excellent resource that doesn't shy away from exploration.
We never will know what would O-sensei think of Aikido today. However, after his death, his disciples mystified him, because if they raised the founder to a heavenly state they also elevated themselves. So many students did not join the Aikikai. Kisshomaru Ueshiba doshu created actually Aikido as we know today. Many Aikijutsu techniques were forsaken. Jiyu waza could have been developed in a way to pressure test and keep it more martial, like kumite gathering in old times karate, without any competition or medals.
A "master" doesn't need to have formidable combat capabilities to have a bunch of followers believe he has mystical powers, just look at the likes of George Dillman. In fact virtually all of them don't. If you're not practiced in a combat sports martial art it's pretty certain you're not very formidable.
Nowdays maybe, but in the case of Morihei Ueshiba he truly was a master. The guy was martially trained during a war time in real combat techniques. The problem is that what he developped became like a pseudo religious almost cult like thing. The true martial spirit remains in some practitioners, but Aikido is the perfect martial art for people who really don't fight to practice, that's why they never get actually good at fighting, the whole point of the thing is not to fight.
You don't need to be faster than a bullet to avoid being shot. You only need to be faster than the arm that is pointing the gun at you. If you avoid the line of aim, the bullet can't hit. The challenge is in estimating that line very rapidly and adjusting to it.
That is for all intents and purposes impossible. Simple math, and geometry. Do an simple experiment, walk into a room, stand by a wall and point at a corner, quickly point at another corner. It takes a fraction of a second to "switch targets". Now walk to corner number one, and then move to corner number two. It takes allot more time. Dodging bullets is fantasy. Now there is a way, it is called getting into the ODA loop. It is a military concept that is a bit simple yet really complex.
This part about "dodging bullets" can actually be acurate. I know a man, who is a cop, and he has a similar story. He was in the middle of an operation - so "super focused" 'cause in Brazil sh*t gets serious - and he was looking to one direction. Whe he turns his head he sees some dude pointing a gun at him from quite close range, say 10m, and in an instant reaction he "dodges" to the wall near him and the bullet misses him by a finger, so to speak. So humans can, sometimes, actually do some super ninja stuff
@@tonybutler9523 he's not dodging the bullet, he's evading the guy who's firing the gun -- at normal human speed. Not hard to understand. Whether that's possible is a very different problem from evading something traveling at supersonic speed.
That's very interesting... In Don Warrener's biography of Richard Kim, 20th Century Samurai, he describes Yoshida Kotaro as one of Kim's teachers. Yoshida was a student of Takeda Sokaku. Takeda Sokakau is noted as the teacher of Ueshiba Morehei, not his student. Takeda was also the instructor of Choi Yong-sool, who was Takeda's "house boy," having been de facto adopted. Choi founded Hapkido, the Korean pronunciatin of the Chinese characters of Ai-ki-do, which bears many similarities to Aikido, but also retains more exotic or antique techniques such as binding, not found in Aikido, but explicitly taught in Takeda's family style of martial skills, which Takeda Sokaku named "Daitoryu Aikijiujitsu." Warrener describes the arrangement of live-in student was taken-up by than just Ueshiba, and while I'm sure that guest and host, and master and servant, always learned from one-another, Takeda was Ueshiba's teacher. Ueshiba's mythos cannot even allow for him to have had an instructor ever in his life. What do you think? Did Ueshiba create the prototype jiujitsu whole from his own creativitiy?
I believe it's something simple. Stories were told and exaggerated, and after someone is worshipped as "a great one", going "against their memories" to show some light on these stories is something that many worshippers/fans consider of utmost disrespect and even "heretic" and end up harassing or attacking(physcially or not) those that do try.
Paul Crompton once wrote that there's an enormous gulf separating the death dealing techniques used by the Samurai of ancient japan and the kind of conception held by most people based on books such as ''Textbook of Ju- Jutsu'' ( which form the basis of modern Jiu- Jitsu ). For example, the naked strangle was originally used to dislocate the neck vertebrae not just to cause unconsciousness as in the modern Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu application ! Morihei Ueshiba , according to a book written by his son, was a mixed martial artist who everything from sumo to weaponry. However, like Dr Khano Jigaro, he needed to modify Jiu- Jitsu to make it acceptable in Post war Japan , because the samurai tradition was no longer tolerated if Japan was to cover its notorious past! In other words, Judo and Aikido are actually modified forms of Jiu- Jitsu not traditional martial arts as is often quoted! my question is what actually characterizes orthodox or ancient martial arts?? (if you look at the oldest portrait at the Shaolin temple you'll notice the monks training in pairs rather than doing katas as is commonly seen in today's northern Shaolin - go figure!)So my question is how did the ancient warriors train ?
I was one of those dumb people, who believed all these fairy-tales about Morihei Ueshiba... I think, spirituality is just a fashion, a fad. In the US, this fashion was at its highest around 1960s-1970s. But in ex-Soviet Union it got popular slightly later. And popularity of Aikido in ex-Soviet countries is just a symptom of that.
Have you read "The Trickster and the Paranormal" by George Hanson (you might find it interesting). Since you've seemingly now well-traveled the vector towards "reality-based sport-fighting," it might be interesting to see you go deeper into the more esoteric (and much decried by the material-realists) corners of the martial arts...your Aikido background might give you a good foundation from which to evaluate some of this stuff. Have you looked into the work of The Martial Man (Kieren Krygier) by any chance? He is a fairly experienced martial artist who has interfaced with some of the more enigmatic martial artists working with neigong sorts of stuff...like Adam Mizner and Serio Iadora for e.g. Even if you could just take the time to dialog with Krygier it might be interesting for you. It might be interesting for you to get ahold of Dr. Richard Alan Miller too...and discuss his work in developing parapsychological skills for elite units of the US military.
Though there is some religious syncretism in Japan, that monk dressed in black and orange is a Zen Buddhist monk, not a Shinto priest. Easy mistake to make tho! Thanks for an interesting video!
Hmm... That bullet lines story... It only makes sense to me, if the claim is that the mind is trying to predict where the lines will be, so he could dodge before the shots... The body would disintegrate if it really was accelerated faster than bullet speed. But then, our memories are never what really happened.
Again great vid! As with most stories, there probably started with some element of truth which got dissolved down the years until individuals cannot remember what actually happened. "Party tricks" in the martial arts is not a new phenomena. From breaking boards or ice, theyre done to impress and i'm sure Ueshiba probably did similar though his career establishing Aikido. As a young man, no doubt an accomplished martial artist. As an older man, a spiritual man with no doubt a certain 'aura', which is probably where these stories have been exaggerated from. Great vid!.
I heard that the founder himself was scammed by a cult. At that time his father was sick so he payed money to a cult leader to heal him (kind of like reiki, chigung, faith healing). Not only that he lived with the followers for a couple of years. After his conversion to the cult the founder's sensei (Takeda) took seperate paths which in my opinion was a wise thing to do. So basically Morihei Ueshiba was teaching 2 things. One was martial arts and the other was religion that kind of says that you can have godlike powers. Nothing wrong with teaching martial arts and religion together, but if you teach a religion that claims you can have super powers and mix it up with martial arts you will have interesting results.😁😁😁
I fought a 9th dan that O Sensei made in NY. He was a nice guy. He knew his technique and he couldn't fight to save his life. However, I will say in his defense, all he knew was Aikido. Literally trained nothing else his entire life.
That's definitely a distinctive tower. Looks like he took a trip to the capital. Now he's gotta do a video in front of that itty bitty little church next.
I’d agree with Ramsey at a bit of a cult following. Also due to humility many times questions aren’t encouraged so you just accept things. As far as specifics many of the no touch throws were in demos. Watch O Sensei’s performance in the rendezvous to adventure for a more realistic movements. Basic kote/Shiho/joint lock against the larger opponent. With the dodging bullets I do believe this happened, however this is more due to OS being relaxed having been shot at and also because of the war being very familiar with rifles. So he didn’t move after the bullet/trigger (which is impossible). But moved at the exact moment (shoulder/wrist movement) before the trigger was depressed. Remember the antiquated rifles would have been very cumbersome to fire. Best one is interview with Tohei, which I’m sure you’ve read on AJ, where he talks a lot about NEVER seeing anything supernatural with OS, except he was totally relaxed, so tough to resist when you feel ‘nothing’. Unfortunately as Shioda says a lot of Aikido is formless missing the hard work to achieve these levels.
i believe after you are done with aikido you should also debunk all stories and fairy tales in general. Then you can move to poetry (also very fake many times). This way we will at last have a world where the only thing that counts is who can beat whom in a ring. Beautiful! Thank God you made it your life purpose to explain what aikido is. Now everyone will know the truth
My father was an MP. Basically, no but the real answer is those aren't really too useful for your average civilian to know in the first place. MCMAP and or directives are teaching you exactly how to do your job in the armed forces. You receive weapons and and hand to hand training which is basically MMA with a focus on lethality along with environment training. It's a fancy way of molding you into the military. If you want to know how to fight then take MMA and really get into it.
People in the past were easily tie things that they don't have any knowledge of to supernatural stuff, like many bladesmith in the past they always associated with magic and stuff like that but in reality its just science or engineering but people don't get it so they conveniently tie it to magic
He never wants to start martial arts style, he wanted to start a religion. He had a supernatural power: what he said makes perfect sense. But this maybe a bit difficult for someone who does not understand religion: it is all about living with supernatural (Heavenly) powers. Aikido was to understand Heavenly order (peaceful, harmoniously, etc.) and be one with those Heavenly power, under Heavenly dominance. In a way, isn't what Christ mentioned in New Testament? First, ask for (was it?) righteousness of Heavens (what Heavens considered to be right) and Heavenly dominion (under Heavenly power). Same thing. Supernatural power works when you become one with Heavenly power, your guardian angel in Heavens. Try it. Christianity, Shintoism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, etc...this aspect does not change.
O_ Sensei was warrior he went to Manchuria to fight,he was in the imperial army,during his youth h spend all the time learning new arts of fighting,that how he created his way of fighting,that later he call aikido,but before that it had another name ,only after the war he change the name Of it ,during the American occupation all martial arts were banned,and when you got old everybody change their minds and they try to find something spiritual and all that,he use to combine all the martial arts he had learned during his life to do all that kind of thing every body tell about him ,now everybody had a different way to understand o- Sensei ,that why Aikido is so different,nobody train like the old time,mostly,,if you don’t change your mind set ,all this happens because the new era and our society as well ,is all about money and not about teaching,,Aikido is a defense martial art ,never think for a second you can do kote gaeshi without striking real hard you opponent ,I see many Aikido Sensei doing this,is so wrong,that’s why a lot of people think aikido is bullshido, ,like jiu jitsu you can use on a Matt or in competition but you can’t do a lot of this technique during a real fight ,you can’t do pull guard,or spider guard,you need to be in standing position,tachi waza otherwise you are not in control,,remember martial arts are just tool we can use wisely or not. The same happened with Aikido or other martial arts.
i dont speak very well your language but what power she belive you have?telecinetic so you move with your mind the pen for the room or also make the pen intangible so pass through the wall like kitty pride? so pass through the pen for the room means to move the pen for the room right?but what kind of teacher belive in magic in these years?i love to know what she teach wtf
I think it is a pity that Morihei Ueshiba has been mystified so much. I'm sure he was a vary skillful martial artist with a lot to provide to other martial artists (without any supernatural skills of course). I don't see how the great judokas such as Kenji Tomiki and Gozo Shioda would otherwise have gone to learn from him and then founded their own aikido styles.
Many ppl got fooled by aikido or wing chun and invested money and time for something unrealistic, old fashioned and debunked, if you also made friends from it you continue to follow it. Everything comes to confirmation bias and not wanting to admit you got fooled. Aikido and wing chun have 30% real fight in them and 70% mumbo jumbo , you can keep the 30% and evolve them to something new by adopting sparring, stress testing, gymnastics, new training methods and become extremely specialized to that real piece of the art while at the same time insert some things from already working arts that way you honor the teachers of the arts or else it will be forgotten.
All of the founders of the most effective martial arts were proven fighters, not experts at demonstrations. I never knew of aikido masters in fights. It seems that the original aikido guy got many followers because he must have been into hypnosis or similar mind control. I dont mean it in a negative way necessarily. I wont go on and on about already overdone criticism on aikido. My guess is that because of his childhood problems, o sensei became very powerful mentally. I think aikido was a cult, more than a practical fighting art. How can there be so many practitioners of a martial art that is totally not effective for self defense. They swear by it and live and breath it despite it being useless in any practical way. Cult.
Rokas remember during that period of time weapon were highly inaccurate,the fighters and the technique applied during this time are now old fashioned,and when you face death a lot of crazy things go through your mind in those milliseconds ,plus ignorance because of that time,now we see thing different,that's why Aikido is related to fiction,there is a lot of technique that doesn't apply to this days,people evolved also the way we attack and the weapon we use,Aikido needs to evolve in order to survive ,that why a love aikido is always changing, just a lot of people don't understand that,spirituality is there of course,, is Morihei Sensei legacy. Now is about technique and no spirituality,is about to punch hard and not the way you punch.
So Rokas, I’m gonna ask again, why did you think the Art of Peace, the Way of Harmony, was going to teach you how to beat people up and win in the octagon? Why would you think an art that promises to keep you out of a fight teach you to win in a fight? Your videos have this constant theme of being very against misleading people, but you are misleading people in the very same way you claim to be so wrong. As far as O-Sensei goes, he had a lot of stories made up about him. This is true. He was a very accomplished martial artist, this is true. He believed in a lot of mystical things. This is also true. These things are not mutually exclusive. I imagine if you tried to attack O-Sensei back in his prime, he’d destroy you. What you left out is that Takeda Sokaku was a living weapon back in that time. Dude went up on murder charges for fighting and killing 8 construction workers who jeered at him for dressing like a samurai. He got off due to self-defense. But that’s well documented, recorded, and part of history. He was a harsh instructor and thoroughly effective. O-Sensei was one of his best students, having trained personally under him for years as you said. I doubt most of us could handle that training. Your video makes O-Sensei out to be wholly ineffective and crazy because of his religious devotion to Shinto. How exactly do you square that? Stop misleading people...
Thomas Kearns I think you are dealing with a bit of historical revisionism there, Thomas. Aikido has never been advertised to help you fight. Aikido translates to The Way of Harmony. The founder, O-Sensei, wrote “The Art of Peace” as it concerns Aikido. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms of Aikido in terms of O-Sensei is that he took much of the violence out of it. Apparently Rokas didn’t do his research, or he has been lying to all of you and knew all along that Aikido wouldn’t help him win in a prize fight. Rokas started the channel on a false premise. Either he didn’t inform himself well enough, and needs to own up to that, or he is lying for views.
Nikita Blagodarov Aikido does help you in a combat setting. If someone were to attack me in a combat setting, I am well versed in distance, timing, balance, self-control, special awareness, as well as a host of other skills and talents developed. I’ve used Aikido in real situations many times to get myself out of a fight and to safety. If what you mean by help is to go out and win a prize fight, no, martial arts do not promise that. Not most of them. In MMA, there are significant limitations to what most martial arts teach. I can’t go in the ring with buki, or a live sword, as an example. MMA is completely worthless against a fully armored man with a broad sword. What about a man with a gun 10 feet from you? Won’t help you there either. Context matters. I’ve never lost a street fight. I’ve never won one either. I’ve removed myself safely from plenty. Was a bouncer for a while too. Aikido worked great for me. Rokas is a liar.
@@Baritoneewart I don't know anything about the history of aikido or O-Sensei. I do know that there are aikido people out there that swear that it works for fighting. I've seen them in the comments telling Rokas his aikido is bad and that's why he lost to the mma fighter. Rokas has addressed these people in videos on occasion. There are also videos of aikido practitioners that think they can fight, only to get there ass kicked really bad.
Bullshit, we all know you have telekinetic superpowers... You cant hide that from us! Great video btw ñ.ñ Btw, i was talking with s friend the other day and he said he would like to see you try out tomiki aikido one day and see what you think of it and how it compared with your previous experience in aikido...
Without a doubt, I believe some of what is said about Ueshiba is made up e.g the bullet story, but there can be little doubt he was a superlative martial artist which is why other established martial artists sought him out back in the day. Do not dismiss his “superpowers” too readily until you have read Ellis Amdur’s book - Hidden in plain sight.
Morihay Sensei was an elightened man,his power was not physical,but mainly spiritual,that is something that you can see in a Aikido practise even today(peps are very relaxed and very calm).This is a huge win for a practinioner,not everyone wonna be a new Bruce Lee. I am a BJJ black belt and i happend to train with a 6 Dan Aikidoka,the first thing he told me was ''If you want to be a good fighter,dont train Aikido''.We both knew that i could easily smash him,BUT his victory in Aikido was not of fighting matters.He gainned more in other areas which other martial Arts lack(especially BJJ with the more brutal aspect in comparisson to Aikido).If he believed that(a 6th Dan Sensei) then everyone else who believes otherwise is plain STUPIT.Oh-Sensei was a worse fighter than the other great Masters of the time(G.Funakoshi and J.Kano) but he created something worth preserving.
Kapamaru Jiujitsu , that sensei 6 th Dan was a coward,I’ve been training aikido,kickboxing and Jiujutsu,catch wrestling,,I can tell you you can combine all those techniques and be a good martial artist,,also remember sport is not good for street defense,and I will never would do a pull guard during a street fight or while I am defending my life,is all about mind set,Jiu jutsu is good but remember is only a tool you can use right or bad
Morihei Sensei was an spiritual man is true but before that he was a fighter during his Youth he was very different, he spend a lot of years looking something different, that is why he practiced different martial arts ,when he met jigoro kano he refused to do techniques on the ground he said those techniques compromise your life in combat, remember during that period it was war time ,is everything about your mind set, all those techniques doesn't apply to these days everything has changed and our society as well ,for example here in US the training is different ,I came from cuba and we use to do hard training, once you got in the US you quickly realized that aikido is too soft, even jiu jujitsu, too many rules because the American society, the legal problems and all that stuff, that why I can tell you is all about mind set,and how you use it as a tool.
This conversation is stupid. I'm not good at math, but that doesn't mean math doesn't work. I tried to play the guitar and didn't learn it, but that doesn't mean that the guitar isn't a good instrument. You are talking about AIKIDO as if AIKIDO was bad, but YOU DON'T KNOW AIKIDO! It just means YOUR AIKIDO sucks! You are in the USA, why don't you look for SHIBATA sensei in Berkley and don't tell him that AIKIDO doesn't work? Go to his Dojo, he will divide you into two pieces like he does with a toothpick!
The perceiving bullet lines ability really isn't THAT incredible TBH. A focused and highly experienced mind can perceive and estimate the most probable trajectory of projectiles when SHTF.
you're like shay patrick cormay, betraying the so-called "aikido" as a combat sport and becoming an MMA fighter HAHAHAHA. it's just a joke so please dont get offended i find it funny bcs how similar it was to assassin's creed rogue
1: Ryokas knows that Aikido isn't effective. 2: You have to take into account the history of martial arts. It's not that Aikido is "the" fake martial art, there were a lot of fake martial arts throughout the years. Aikido comes from Daito-Ryu Aikijutsu, which is very similar to Aikido, as well as perhaps from Yagyu-Shingan Ryu. By modern standards these Koryu (old school) martial arts aren't effective. The question is why they're not effective in the modern day, and how they formed.
@@alexquinn2390 it's fake as in it'a inapplicable in every way possible even in history when it first came about. Their is no use for such a lack luster "martial art" that does nothing more then give people a false sense of security
@@Nick-ii3ux The sad part is it is so close to being a good art. We already know what that looks like and has proven capability. It's called Judo, so close to each other but it is clear to see. How you teach and practice something has a major impact on whether or no it will will actually work. Not sure how two arts so close together ended up on such separate ends of the spectrum as far as effectiveness
This conversation is stupid. I'm not good at math, but that doesn't mean math doesn't work. I tried to play the guitar and didn't learn it, but that doesn't mean that the guitar isn't a good instrument. You are talking about AIKIDO as if AIKIDO was bad, but YOU DON'T KNOW AIKIDO! It just means YOUR AIKIDO sucks! You are in the USA, why don't you look for SHIBATA sensei in Berkley and don't tell him that AIKIDO doesn't work? Go to his Dojo, he will divide you into two pieces like he does with a toothpick!
Did u ever came in aikido to the point when u used energy/chi ? If u did not, then u never really started to learn a reall art. No offense at all, just my opinion. Without it, its not usefull at most situations. With it, it can be verry usefull.
oh look everyone, we have an expert on the subject...with no proof and talk of woo woo magic. So glad UA-cam is filled with so many subject matter experts..
@@MartialArtsJourney I am preparing my body Last 8years to practice with energy. I am using it but only in a small amount.. When u combine Body, movement and your weight, its a kind of little energy.. I can film myself with my Master. But Will it prove something to you? Will u trust it, when u cannot feel it through video? Anyway I Will give it a try. Will send u a video from next training.
Woo hoo! First comment! Maybe... I type slowly.
What are you doing here?? Learning aikido
I'm kidding
Haha! 😂 I never expected your comment to be the first one Ramsey
Ramsey seeing you comment a lot lately lol
@@ahmadnassar3366 he is getting out here and training
Yep...a combination of memories being distorted in the retelling (the old Telephone game), power of expectations, group herd mentality & lesser-understood tricks of physics
Great content!
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Very well described!
O sensei's story is a story of a man who fell victim to his own reputation. His pre-war training and take on Daito-Ryu were good and effective. We can't deny this as his career rise was well documented and followed by other high ranking martial artists of the day. His religious awakening and his training style, coupled with an almost cult like following post WW2, led him to believe in his own metaphysical and supernatural powers. In a nutshell, he basically destroyed the martial art that he first developed (a simplified, modernized version of Aikijujutsu) and turned it into a vehicle for his newly developed spiritual beliefs. This is why Aikikai Aikido is neither a true budo, nor an internal martial art. It falls short in both end of the spectrum. Also his insistence on "non-competition" in Aikido has had negative implications for the style.
This is really interesting. It speaks to the human need to believe in something bigger than themselves- the need to worship. It happens a lot with martial artists who aren’t good fighters, but they want to believe their training/belief system is valid. So a much easier way to do that is to try to live vicariously through a powerful sounding folk hero/idol/teacher than to just do the hard work and learn how to fight.
Really great point Ramsey. It's interesting to look that at combat sports, especially between practitioners, there may be respect towards 'the greats', but I haven't personally heard of such type of worship. Yet fantasy based martial arts are full of it. Yip Man could be another great example. Maybe this makes the term 'fantasy based martial art' even more appealing, since then the fantasy is created over generations and it's not only based on the belief in unrealistic techniques and training methods, but also in a fantasy based belief of the legendary figure: "He defeated everyone with this martial art - thus it means it works" 😊
oh snap it's Ramsey!
@@MartialArtsJourney This conversation is stupid.
I'm not good at math, but that doesn't mean math doesn't work.
I tried to play the guitar and didn't learn it, but that doesn't mean that the guitar isn't a good instrument.
You are talking about AIKIDO as if AIKIDO was bad, but YOU DON'T KNOW AIKIDO!
It just means YOUR AIKIDO sucks!
You are in the USA, why don't you look for SHIBATA sensei in Berkley and don't tell him that AIKIDO doesn't work?
Go to his Dojo, he will divide you into two pieces like he does with a toothpick!
@@MsDragonbal776 Basketball doesn't work for me, because i don't know how to play it. Michael Jordan is an ilusion of everybody.
You can imagine the scene, Morihei and some buddies sitting around having a laugh, reminiscing about old war stories. "hey, remember that time we were dodging bullets over in Manchuria..."; some eager student overhears it. "oo, the master can dodge live bullets", Master get's asked about it in class and to save face has to come up with some bullshit story.
Enough talk Rokas. Show us the damn pen trick!
🤣 nice
I've had stories about Morihei Ueshiba passed on to me over the years that are just crazy - and reported with a straight face by people who otherwise have a reasonably grounded and sceptical outlook on life.
Those stories included the bullet lines tale, stories of him encountering the spirit of Budo as a pillar of fire and even stories of him being simultaneously attacked by a large group and teleporting to another part of the room.
😄 Haha. Been there too
Great stuff Rokas! 🙌
Keep inspiring, brother. ✌️
Thank you... 😊🙏
Body mechanics explain 98% of anything real. My Hsing-yi teacher was pretty powerful, trained from childhood several hours a day. One of his favorite sayings was "it's not mysterious".
Good video. Good job,man!
Thank you 🙏
I've been watching your journey for the last few days as I'm trying to pick some effective martial arts while also obtaining discipline. Gotta say, I really like your grasp on English and your fair view of things. I've become very disillusioned from Aikido by your videos and see it in a new light, though not negatively, just it wasn't what I thought it was after having been informally taught it for a few years. There's a lot of sometimes unnecessary and downright harmful mysticism in a lot of martial arts that can skew our understanding of things. Keep going, you're an excellent resource that doesn't shy away from exploration.
We never will know what would O-sensei think of Aikido today.
However, after his death, his disciples mystified him, because if they raised the founder to a heavenly state they also elevated themselves.
So many students did not join the Aikikai.
Kisshomaru Ueshiba doshu created actually Aikido as we know today. Many Aikijutsu techniques were forsaken.
Jiyu waza could have been developed in a way to pressure test and keep it more martial, like kumite gathering in old times karate, without any competition or medals.
A "master" doesn't need to have formidable combat capabilities to have a bunch of followers believe he has mystical powers, just look at the likes of George Dillman. In fact virtually all of them don't. If you're not practiced in a combat sports martial art it's pretty certain you're not very formidable.
I wouldn't say that
Nowdays maybe, but in the case of Morihei Ueshiba he truly was a master. The guy was martially trained during a war time in real combat techniques. The problem is that what he developped became like a pseudo religious almost cult like thing. The true martial spirit remains in some practitioners, but Aikido is the perfect martial art for people who really don't fight to practice, that's why they never get actually good at fighting, the whole point of the thing is not to fight.
He probably was a skillfull person just like Bruce Lee or other famous martial artists, but with time, people tend to exagerate stuff.
Bruce Lee's life is one big exageration
Tony Butler in a way....He still paved the way for mma and was in incredible shape.
You don't need to be faster than a bullet to avoid being shot. You only need to be faster than the arm that is pointing the gun at you. If you avoid the line of aim, the bullet can't hit. The challenge is in estimating that line very rapidly and adjusting to it.
That is for all intents and purposes impossible.
Simple math, and geometry.
Do an simple experiment, walk into a room, stand by a wall and point at a corner, quickly point at another corner. It takes a fraction of a second to "switch targets". Now walk to corner number one, and then move to corner number two. It takes allot more time. Dodging bullets is fantasy.
Now there is a way, it is called getting into the ODA loop.
It is a military concept that is a bit simple yet really complex.
Mind moves before trigger is pushed
It has been awesome watching your growth! Keep on learning.
Inspired me to make my UA-cam, Thankyou man hopefully mine will be as successful as yours!! Even tho it’s off topic
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milixe1 lol no
I would love to see you and akidioflow talk about some of these topics.
This part about "dodging bullets" can actually be acurate. I know a man, who is a cop, and he has a similar story. He was in the middle of an operation - so "super focused" 'cause in Brazil sh*t gets serious - and he was looking to one direction. Whe he turns his head he sees some dude pointing a gun at him from quite close range, say 10m, and in an instant reaction he "dodges" to the wall near him and the bullet misses him by a finger, so to speak.
So humans can, sometimes, actually do some super ninja stuff
Have you ever fired a high velocity round at a target 1000 metres away,dodge bullitts are you serious
I’ve heard far weirder firsthand stories from people who were clearly sane and rational. More things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio...
I never said he did on purpose. It most surely was just a reflex, but still, awesome
@@tonybutler9523 he's not dodging the bullet, he's evading the guy who's firing the gun -- at normal human speed. Not hard to understand. Whether that's possible is a very different problem from evading something traveling at supersonic speed.
@@frotzecht3461 no its not
7:24 That was Manchuria, and they were trying to create a unified world there.
That's very interesting... In Don Warrener's biography of Richard Kim, 20th Century Samurai, he describes Yoshida Kotaro as one of Kim's teachers. Yoshida was a student of Takeda Sokaku. Takeda Sokakau is noted as the teacher of Ueshiba Morehei, not his student. Takeda was also the instructor of Choi Yong-sool, who was Takeda's "house boy," having been de facto adopted. Choi founded Hapkido, the Korean pronunciatin of the Chinese characters of Ai-ki-do, which bears many similarities to Aikido, but also retains more exotic or antique techniques such as binding, not found in Aikido, but explicitly taught in Takeda's family style of martial skills, which Takeda Sokaku named "Daitoryu Aikijiujitsu." Warrener describes the arrangement of live-in student was taken-up by than just Ueshiba, and while I'm sure that guest and host, and master and servant, always learned from one-another, Takeda was Ueshiba's teacher.
Ueshiba's mythos cannot even allow for him to have had an instructor ever in his life. What do you think? Did Ueshiba create the prototype jiujitsu whole from his own creativitiy?
Thanks for some precise history :) Ueshiba was Takeda's student. I think that's what I said, or was intending to say 🙂
@@MartialArtsJourney, ooooh, OK.
So, what's next for you?
I believe it's something simple.
Stories were told and exaggerated, and after someone is worshipped as "a great one", going "against their memories" to show some light on these stories is something that many worshippers/fans consider of utmost disrespect and even "heretic" and end up harassing or attacking(physcially or not) those that do try.
Rokas... We all know you can move stuff with the mind :P :P :)))
He is secret Jedi.
Paul Crompton once wrote that there's an enormous gulf separating the death dealing techniques used by the Samurai of ancient japan and the kind of conception held by most people based on books such as ''Textbook of Ju- Jutsu'' ( which form the basis of modern Jiu- Jitsu ). For example, the naked strangle was originally used to dislocate the neck vertebrae not just to cause unconsciousness as in the modern Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu application ! Morihei Ueshiba , according to a book written by his son, was a mixed martial artist who everything from sumo to weaponry. However, like Dr Khano Jigaro, he needed to modify Jiu- Jitsu to make it acceptable in Post war Japan , because the samurai tradition was no longer tolerated if Japan was to cover its notorious past! In other words, Judo and Aikido are actually modified forms of Jiu- Jitsu not traditional martial arts as is often quoted! my question is what actually characterizes orthodox or ancient martial arts?? (if you look at the oldest portrait at the Shaolin temple you'll notice the monks training in pairs rather than doing katas as is commonly seen in today's northern Shaolin - go figure!)So my question is how did the ancient warriors train ?
Great content. Thank you.
Kisshomaru Ueshiba claimed in the introduction to Budo "The life of Morihei Ueshiba" that Ueshiba pinned a tsumo wrestler with one finger.
I was one of those dumb people, who believed all these fairy-tales about Morihei Ueshiba... I think, spirituality is just a fashion, a fad. In the US, this fashion was at its highest around 1960s-1970s. But in ex-Soviet Union it got popular slightly later. And popularity of Aikido in ex-Soviet countries is just a symptom of that.
Have you read "The Trickster and the Paranormal" by George Hanson (you might find it interesting). Since you've seemingly now well-traveled the vector towards "reality-based sport-fighting," it might be interesting to see you go deeper into the more esoteric (and much decried by the material-realists) corners of the martial arts...your Aikido background might give you a good foundation from which to evaluate some of this stuff. Have you looked into the work of The Martial Man (Kieren Krygier) by any chance? He is a fairly experienced martial artist who has interfaced with some of the more enigmatic martial artists working with neigong sorts of stuff...like Adam Mizner and Serio Iadora for e.g. Even if you could just take the time to dialog with Krygier it might be interesting for you. It might be interesting for you to get ahold of Dr. Richard Alan Miller too...and discuss his work in developing parapsychological skills for elite units of the US military.
Though there is some religious syncretism in Japan, that monk dressed in black and orange is a Zen Buddhist monk, not a Shinto priest. Easy mistake to make tho!
Thanks for an interesting video!
Hmm... That bullet lines story... It only makes sense to me, if the claim is that the mind is trying to predict where the lines will be, so he could dodge before the shots... The body would disintegrate if it really was accelerated faster than bullet speed.
But then, our memories are never what really happened.
Again great vid! As with most stories, there probably started with some element of truth which got dissolved down the years until individuals cannot remember what actually happened.
"Party tricks" in the martial arts is not a new phenomena. From breaking boards or ice, theyre done to impress and i'm sure Ueshiba probably did similar though his career establishing Aikido.
As a young man, no doubt an accomplished martial artist. As an older man, a spiritual man with no doubt a certain 'aura', which is probably where these stories have been exaggerated from.
Great vid!.
A lot of the people needed ideal of great teacher that they can't surpass 'cause it's scary if you surpass your ideal.
The uninitiated still think Bourne movie fights have realistic choreography. Can you make a video showing where realism ends in those fight scenes?
I heard that the founder himself was scammed by a cult. At that time his father was sick so he payed money to a cult leader to heal him (kind of like reiki, chigung, faith healing). Not only that he lived with the followers for a couple of years. After his conversion to the cult the founder's sensei (Takeda) took seperate paths which in my opinion was a wise thing to do. So basically Morihei Ueshiba was teaching 2 things. One was martial arts and the other was religion that kind of says that you can have godlike powers. Nothing wrong with teaching martial arts and religion together, but if you teach a religion that claims you can have super powers and mix it up with martial arts you will have interesting results.😁😁😁
I fought a 9th dan that O Sensei made in NY. He was a nice guy. He knew his technique and he couldn't fight to save his life. However, I will say in his defense, all he knew was Aikido. Literally trained nothing else his entire life.
hahahaha, liar!
Vilnius in background, am I right? My parents went there last year, greetings from Croatia.
That's definitely a distinctive tower. Looks like he took a trip to the capital. Now he's gotta do a video in front of that itty bitty little church next.
I’d agree with Ramsey at a bit of a cult following. Also due to humility many times questions aren’t encouraged so you just accept things. As far as specifics many of the no touch throws were in demos. Watch O Sensei’s performance in the rendezvous to adventure for a more realistic movements. Basic kote/Shiho/joint lock against the larger opponent. With the dodging bullets I do believe this happened, however this is more due to OS being relaxed having been shot at and also because of the war being very familiar with rifles. So he didn’t move after the bullet/trigger (which is impossible). But moved at the exact moment (shoulder/wrist movement) before the trigger was depressed. Remember the antiquated rifles would have been very cumbersome to fire. Best one is interview with Tohei, which I’m sure you’ve read on AJ, where he talks a lot about NEVER seeing anything supernatural with OS, except he was totally relaxed, so tough to resist when you feel ‘nothing’. Unfortunately as Shioda says a lot of Aikido is formless missing the hard work to achieve these levels.
Will you ever go back to Aikido?
i believe after you are done with aikido you should also debunk all stories and fairy tales in general. Then you can move to poetry (also very fake many times). This way we will at last have a world where the only thing that counts is who can beat whom in a ring. Beautiful! Thank God you made it your life purpose to explain what aikido is. Now everyone will know the truth
martial arts Journey is it possible for a civilian to learn mcmap and modern Army combatives without joining the military
My father was an MP. Basically, no but the real answer is those aren't really too useful for your average civilian to know in the first place. MCMAP and or directives are teaching you exactly how to do your job in the armed forces. You receive weapons and and hand to hand training which is basically MMA with a focus on lethality along with environment training. It's a fancy way of molding you into the military. If you want to know how to fight then take MMA and really get into it.
But...what about The Rise of Batman??
People in the past were easily tie things that they don't have any knowledge of to supernatural stuff, like many bladesmith in the past they always associated with magic and stuff like that but in reality its just science or engineering but people don't get it so they conveniently tie it to magic
Pls make a video about silat fighting style like maul mourne's silat.
He never wants to start martial arts style, he wanted to start a religion. He had a supernatural power: what he said makes perfect sense. But this maybe a bit difficult for someone who does not understand religion: it is all about living with supernatural (Heavenly) powers. Aikido was to understand Heavenly order (peaceful, harmoniously, etc.) and be one with those Heavenly power, under Heavenly dominance. In a way, isn't what Christ mentioned in New Testament? First, ask for (was it?) righteousness of Heavens (what Heavens considered to be right) and Heavenly dominion (under Heavenly power). Same thing. Supernatural power works when you become one with Heavenly power, your guardian angel in Heavens. Try it. Christianity, Shintoism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, etc...this aspect does not change.
O_ Sensei was warrior he went to Manchuria to fight,he was in the imperial army,during his youth h spend all the time learning new arts of fighting,that how he created his way of fighting,that later he call aikido,but before that it had another name ,only after the war he change the name Of it ,during the American occupation all martial arts were banned,and when you got old everybody change their minds and they try to find something spiritual and all that,he use to combine all the martial arts he had learned during his life to do all that kind of thing every body tell about him ,now everybody had a different way to understand o- Sensei ,that why Aikido is so different,nobody train like the old time,mostly,,if you don’t change your mind set ,all this happens because the new era and our society as well ,is all about money and not about teaching,,Aikido is a defense martial art ,never think for a second you can do kote gaeshi without striking real hard you opponent ,I see many Aikido Sensei doing this,is so wrong,that’s why a lot of people think aikido is bullshido, ,like jiu jitsu you can use
on a Matt or in competition but you can’t do a lot of this technique during a real fight ,you can’t do pull guard,or spider guard,you need to be in standing position,tachi waza otherwise you are not in control,,remember martial arts are just tool we can use wisely or not. The same happened with Aikido or other martial arts.
Question do you give up on #Aikido or make your own style of aikido?
Do you think that aikido provided you with a good foundation for learning other martial arts techniques and forms?
I believe Rokas has superpowers.
Haha! 😂 What kind of super power would that be?
Martial Arts Journey the power to only fly north, make great videos, and be overall awesome!😛
@@MartialArtsJourney ^ What he said
He has most definitely, I met his close friend the other day spiderman
Martial Arts Journey The telekinetic movement of objects, as a weapon against attackers.
And also martial arts Journey one more thing taijutsu is a real martial art Ninjutsu s a umbrella term but taijutsu is a real fighting art
Just old wise tales. Where did you sithlord hood go?
i dont speak very well your language but what power she belive you have?telecinetic so you move with your mind the pen for the room or also make the pen intangible so pass through the wall like kitty pride? so pass through the pen for the room means to move the pen for the room right?but what kind of teacher belive in magic in these years?i love to know what she teach wtf
If you can move like O sensei something can be possible and he was a older man!
I think it is a pity that Morihei Ueshiba has been mystified so much. I'm sure he was a vary skillful martial artist with a lot to provide to other martial artists (without any supernatural skills of course). I don't see how the great judokas such as Kenji Tomiki and Gozo Shioda would otherwise have gone to learn from him and then founded their own aikido styles.
Many ppl got fooled by aikido or wing chun and invested money and time for something unrealistic, old fashioned and debunked, if you also made friends from it you continue to follow it. Everything comes to confirmation bias and not wanting to admit you got fooled. Aikido and wing chun have 30% real fight in them and 70% mumbo jumbo , you can keep the 30% and evolve them to something new by adopting sparring, stress testing, gymnastics, new training methods and become extremely specialized to that real piece of the art while at the same time insert some things from already working arts that way you honor the teachers of the arts or else it will be forgotten.
Dodging bullets 🤣🤣 LMAO unless he could dodge at over 1,800mph, or more likely they just missed the guy, if it ever happened at all
All of the founders of the most effective martial arts were proven fighters, not experts at demonstrations. I never knew of aikido masters in fights. It seems that the original aikido guy got many followers because he must have been into hypnosis or similar mind control. I dont mean it in a negative way necessarily. I wont go on and on about already overdone criticism on aikido. My guess is that because of his childhood problems, o sensei became very powerful mentally. I think aikido was a cult, more than a practical fighting art. How can there be so many practitioners of a martial art that is totally not effective for self defense. They swear by it and live and breath it despite it being useless in any practical way. Cult.
Tohei sensei said many times, there was nothing supernatural about him,.
Rokas remember during that period of time weapon were highly inaccurate,the fighters and the technique applied during this time are now old fashioned,and when you face death a lot of crazy things go through your mind in those milliseconds ,plus ignorance because of that time,now we see thing different,that's why Aikido is related to fiction,there is a lot of technique that doesn't apply to this days,people evolved also the way we attack and the weapon we use,Aikido needs to evolve in order to survive ,that why a love aikido is always changing, just a lot of people don't understand that,spirituality is there of course,, is Morihei Sensei legacy. Now is about technique and no spirituality,is about to punch hard and not the way you punch.
is aikido meant to harm tho
Ask Roy Dean,,, he has better qualification than you sir,,
yea again, talk to Elis Amdur.
So Rokas, I’m gonna ask again, why did you think the Art of Peace, the Way of Harmony, was going to teach you how to beat people up and win in the octagon? Why would you think an art that promises to keep you out of a fight teach you to win in a fight? Your videos have this constant theme of being very against misleading people, but you are misleading people in the very same way you claim to be so wrong.
As far as O-Sensei goes, he had a lot of stories made up about him. This is true. He was a very accomplished martial artist, this is true. He believed in a lot of mystical things. This is also true. These things are not mutually exclusive. I imagine if you tried to attack O-Sensei back in his prime, he’d destroy you. What you left out is that Takeda Sokaku was a living weapon back in that time. Dude went up on murder charges for fighting and killing 8 construction workers who jeered at him for dressing like a samurai. He got off due to self-defense. But that’s well documented, recorded, and part of history. He was a harsh instructor and thoroughly effective. O-Sensei was one of his best students, having trained personally under him for years as you said. I doubt most of us could handle that training. Your video makes O-Sensei out to be wholly ineffective and crazy because of his religious devotion to Shinto. How exactly do you square that? Stop misleading people...
Apparently lots of aikido people think it helps them fight. It seems to be advertised that way. That's how the channel started.
If an art is a MARTIAL ART. It is expected from it to be able to help you in a combat setting.
Thomas Kearns I think you are dealing with a bit of historical revisionism there, Thomas. Aikido has never been advertised to help you fight. Aikido translates to The Way of Harmony. The founder, O-Sensei, wrote “The Art of Peace” as it concerns Aikido. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms of Aikido in terms of O-Sensei is that he took much of the violence out of it. Apparently Rokas didn’t do his research, or he has been lying to all of you and knew all along that Aikido wouldn’t help him win in a prize fight. Rokas started the channel on a false premise. Either he didn’t inform himself well enough, and needs to own up to that, or he is lying for views.
Nikita Blagodarov Aikido does help you in a combat setting. If someone were to attack me in a combat setting, I am well versed in distance, timing, balance, self-control, special awareness, as well as a host of other skills and talents developed. I’ve used Aikido in real situations many times to get myself out of a fight and to safety. If what you mean by help is to go out and win a prize fight, no, martial arts do not promise that. Not most of them. In MMA, there are significant limitations to what most martial arts teach. I can’t go in the ring with buki, or a live sword, as an example. MMA is completely worthless against a fully armored man with a broad sword. What about a man with a gun 10 feet from you? Won’t help you there either.
Context matters. I’ve never lost a street fight. I’ve never won one either. I’ve removed myself safely from plenty. Was a bouncer for a while too. Aikido worked great for me. Rokas is a liar.
@@Baritoneewart I don't know anything about the history of aikido or O-Sensei. I do know that there are aikido people out there that swear that it works for fighting. I've seen them in the comments telling Rokas his aikido is bad and that's why he lost to the mma fighter. Rokas has addressed these people in videos on occasion. There are also videos of aikido practitioners that think they can fight, only to get there ass kicked really bad.
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that was rather fast
wait...
Oh yeah, rabbis said have an awe of Heavens, and everything else is provided for you. I think that is why they wear kippa.
Bullshit, we all know you have telekinetic superpowers... You cant hide that from us!
Great video btw ñ.ñ
Btw, i was talking with s friend the other day and he said he would like to see you try out tomiki aikido one day and see what you think of it and how it compared with your previous experience in aikido...
Without a doubt, I believe some of what is said about Ueshiba is made up e.g the bullet story, but there can be little doubt he was a superlative martial artist which is why other established martial artists sought him out back in the day. Do not dismiss his “superpowers” too readily until you have read Ellis Amdur’s book - Hidden in plain sight.
Replace the subject matter with Christianty would be the same. Except you'd get considerable amount of more post.
Morihay Sensei was an elightened man,his power was not physical,but mainly spiritual,that is something that you can see in a Aikido practise even today(peps are very relaxed and very calm).This is a huge win for a practinioner,not everyone wonna be a new Bruce Lee.
I am a BJJ black belt and i happend to train with a 6 Dan Aikidoka,the first thing he told me was ''If you want to be a good fighter,dont train Aikido''.We both knew that i could easily smash him,BUT his victory in Aikido was not of fighting matters.He gainned more in other areas which other martial Arts lack(especially BJJ with the more brutal aspect in comparisson to Aikido).If he believed that(a 6th Dan Sensei) then everyone else who believes otherwise is plain STUPIT.Oh-Sensei was a worse fighter than the other great Masters of the time(G.Funakoshi and J.Kano) but he created something worth preserving.
Kapamaru Jiujitsu , that sensei 6 th Dan was a coward,I’ve been training aikido,kickboxing and Jiujutsu,catch wrestling,,I can tell you you can combine all those techniques and be a good martial artist,,also remember sport is not good for street defense,and I will never would do a pull guard during a street fight or while I am defending my life,is all about mind set,Jiu jutsu is good but remember is only a tool you can use right or bad
You seem insecure
Morihei Sensei was an spiritual man is true but before that he was a fighter during his Youth he was very different, he spend a lot of years looking something different, that is why he practiced different martial arts ,when he met jigoro kano he refused to do techniques on the ground he said those techniques compromise your life in combat, remember during that period it was war time ,is everything about your mind set, all those techniques doesn't apply to these days everything has changed and our society as well ,for example here in US the training is different ,I came from cuba and we use to do hard training, once you got in the US you quickly realized that aikido is too soft, even jiu jujitsu, too many rules because the American society, the legal problems and all that stuff, that why I can tell you is all about mind set,and how you use it as a tool.
This conversation is stupid.
I'm not good at math, but that doesn't mean math doesn't work.
I tried to play the guitar and didn't learn it, but that doesn't mean that the guitar isn't a good instrument.
You are talking about AIKIDO as if AIKIDO was bad, but YOU DON'T KNOW AIKIDO!
It just means YOUR AIKIDO sucks!
You are in the USA, why don't you look for SHIBATA sensei in Berkley and don't tell him that AIKIDO doesn't work?
Go to his Dojo, he will divide you into two pieces like he does with a toothpick!
The perceiving bullet lines ability really isn't THAT incredible TBH. A focused and highly experienced mind can perceive and estimate the most probable trajectory of projectiles when SHTF.
you're like shay patrick cormay, betraying the so-called "aikido" as a combat sport and becoming an MMA fighter HAHAHAHA. it's just a joke so please dont get offended i find it funny bcs how similar it was to assassin's creed rogue
moreover, you had a long hair which kinda reminds me to shay patrick cormac
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The fake martial art
1: Ryokas knows that Aikido isn't effective. 2: You have to take into account the history of martial arts. It's not that Aikido is "the" fake martial art, there were a lot of fake martial arts throughout the years. Aikido comes from Daito-Ryu Aikijutsu, which is very similar to Aikido, as well as perhaps from Yagyu-Shingan Ryu. By modern standards these Koryu (old school) martial arts aren't effective. The question is why they're not effective in the modern day, and how they formed.
@@alexquinn2390 it's fake as in it'a inapplicable in every way possible even in history when it first came about. Their is no use for such a lack luster "martial art" that does nothing more then give people a false sense of security
@@Nick-ii3ux The sad part is it is so close to being a good art. We already know what that looks like and has proven capability. It's called Judo, so close to each other but it is clear to see. How you teach and practice something has a major impact on whether or no it will will actually work. Not sure how two arts so close together ended up on such separate ends of the spectrum as far as effectiveness
It amazes me how people are so gullable and believe everything they read and see
This conversation is stupid.
I'm not good at math, but that doesn't mean math doesn't work.
I tried to play the guitar and didn't learn it, but that doesn't mean that the guitar isn't a good instrument.
You are talking about AIKIDO as if AIKIDO was bad, but YOU DON'T KNOW AIKIDO!
It just means YOUR AIKIDO sucks!
You are in the USA, why don't you look for SHIBATA sensei in Berkley and don't tell him that AIKIDO doesn't work?
Go to his Dojo, he will divide you into two pieces like he does with a toothpick!
Such stories are never "believable", lol.
Did u ever came in aikido to the point when u used energy/chi ? If u did not, then u never really started to learn a reall art. No offense at all, just my opinion. Without it, its not usefull at most situations. With it, it can be verry usefull.
Care to film yourself showing an example? :)
Test it against a trained boxer, see how many milli-seconds you last XD
oh look everyone, we have an expert on the subject...with no proof and talk of woo woo magic. So glad UA-cam is filled with so many subject matter experts..
"Care to film yourself showing an example? :)" Questions answered!
@@MartialArtsJourney I am preparing my body Last 8years to practice with energy. I am using it but only in a small amount.. When u combine Body, movement and your weight, its a kind of little energy.. I can film myself with my Master. But Will it prove something to you? Will u trust it, when u cannot feel it through video? Anyway I Will give it a try. Will send u a video from next training.