OMG that is truly terrible. With as little time as I have for Aiki these days I still think its terribly disrespectful of Aikido for those people to post up this rubbish.
If that's true surely all Aikidoka should be told at the end of their first lesson "now go to a boxing gym for six months and come back when you're ready"
Oh I really wish! In the last year before I quit Aikido entirely I tried to get people in my club to do full contact boxing vs aikido randori with me but none of them were up for it. I asked no end of reasonable guys to let me teach them the basics of boxing so they could learn how to throw some combos that we could all then try working our aikido with. But NOBODY was interested. It's a crying shame IMHO.
It's a shame that no one would let you explore this really... I had some boxers come and watch a lesson who said it looked like we were dancing... One of them also said that he did Jujutsu but it looked nothing like what we were doing on the mat. I asked him what style of Jujutsu he studied and he looked back quite blankly so I said, well, jujutsu is a generic term so what school, family or style do you practice? More blank looks, lol. So, he then asked what would I do from a boxers punch or combination, I said in all fairness I've never really explored what I would do but as he felt like we're dancing together then perhaps he'd like to step on the mat and try it out... I said it in a nice way, lol. Not in a, I'll test my aikido against your boxing way! He declined the offer and they left. Damn!
Hi John The guy in the coloured photo with me was an amateur boxer before he started aikido Just thought I would say
