[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNFjAq6V64g&feature=related"]YouTube - Ki response to punch[/ame] Anyone have any opinions on this channel?
I have BUT it would be against TOS. These guys are an embarassment.It is the worst type of "ki" aikido which thankfully no longer exists and is called ki society. I saw a demo of a guy sitting in a chair juggling FOUR swordsmen!!! They have done sooo much damage to aikido and WE have to live with it. I defy ANYONE to "redirect my ki!" like that when I am intent on punching them in the mouth. Utter rubbish. koyo I have had a number of ki society (I refuse to call it aikido) students and teachers visit the Makotokai. ALL really nice guys. ALL totally out of their element when faced by a fast powerfull acurate attack. My distaste is not directed at the students but at the charlatans that still promote it as a martial art.
Me thinks that smoking big fat spliffs before keiko are very important in that video. the so called teacher looks wasted, he is just floating around the place. Its quite funny, but seriously like Koyo says, thats why most people look at aikido and laugh.
Now now dont go round blaming big fat spliffs they never hurt no one. But my god thats some gooood shiiit. (Cough)
Not only is he stoned he is chewing gum. I would so LOVE to have him visit. Just for a few moments.:bang::bang::evil::evil::evil: regards koyo That's not shiho nage THIS is shiho nage.
Your right koyo. We do have to live with the damage. I studied "Ki Aikido" for 10 years and never did anything like that. Any time I had to "redirect" anything there was an effort involved. We even employed the use of "following" to lesser degrees as students advanced through the grades and it still didn't look anything like that. I'd most like be out of my element at the Makotokai. But the club I left wasn't even that bad when I left it. For the sake of the students that are still there I hope they aren't pretending that sort of crap is remotely effective. The word crap by the way is allowed. That video is total and utter crap.
Gah... if the clip was part of a larger lesson on keeping good structure while accepting a punch, maybe it has its place, but one student was continually allowed to demonstrate bad structure. I mean he could have just told the student to keep his elbows in front of his hips and keep his arms out at 120 degrees. And stop calling it KI, it's body mechanics, IMHO. Although the instructor does remind me of Kevin Sorbo. Now it all makes sense... he is teaching fruity Aikido so as not to rip the arms off uke... this would be the perfect and safe martial art for Hercules.
That is an insult to Kevin Sorbo. Also, that was the least convincing punching I've ever seen, even for a completely compliant technique.
If I was Kevin Sorbo I would just uppercut people and have them fly twenty feet in the air only to fall on conveniently placed awnings or pottery.
Are these people in the real world, if someone tried to catch a puch at full flight with an open hand it would break. I only wished when I competed that people fell over that easy. This rubbish gives Aikido a bad name.
Koyo, are you sure it isn't your bunny slippers that scare them? I know when I wear my bunny slippers, people run away.
I wasn't always so understanding and mellow. One time I was invited to give a seminar and the KI fellow from that area insisted that he take the loosening up at the end he said now for the most important posture in aikido. He got a student to show the recovery position in case someone was knocked out!! Jokingly I began the class by saying "These ara waza (severe self defence techniques) and will lead to the recovery position" ..and showed some ara waza. He and his students unashamedly left the mat!!! They had paid the host in advance for the seminar so no big loss. below..the people who stayed..nemerous schools of aikido,jujutsu.karate and judo.We ALL had a great time. regards koyo
