for the shotokan people who happen to see this video, the parry the guy is doing is found in the kata hangetsu. you can use his throw as one of your counters from this parry.

My journey to my self thought training thank you so much 🙏

Very well effective unbelievable

Simple concepts well explained

This has been a good series thanks for posting

L'ouverture de votre école à d'autres styles est une très belle initiative. Bonne continuation

SENSI WHERE DO YOU TRAIN WHICH COUNTRY WHICH PLACE DATES TIMES COSTS THANK YOU PLS HELP

Sayo undo took me a while there was a time though where I blundered an ikkyu in a 3man tag and pulled it off your name seems more proper

Nice ideas here

Thanks for sharing your hard work

Ninja rules

Aikido reconnecting with Kung Fu?

Isso não é aikido. Na verdade o aikido puro não funciona, por isso tem que se valer de técnicas de outras artes

Ki is the foundation of Aikido training but its not a religion. At minimum its a high level of concentration, breathing and centreing at a higher level its attempting to influence the external world

From my perspective, in both knife defense techniques, the moves after the initial deflection actually moved the knife into a zone where you had no cover. I'm not sure if that would be a reliable technique in real life. The initial deflection could work. But then ...?

I want to learn ninjitsu

such a great perspective!

Thanks for your insights Marcus Encel sensei.

Some interesting points and examples to consider. For some reason, I never really thought about planetary orbits in connection to Aikido, but it's an interesting image when considering how Aikido works. 🙏

No disrespect. There are better martial arts. Be true to yourself. A black belt in Aikido wouldn't last a minute with an amateur mma fighter

Its like samurai nija type combat ,where did the Maori people learn this from

Jumanji is a fire element,I know it can work while backing off but it's made as an explosive movement as if your back was against a wall. Also important to hit the butsu metsu to take away the spirit

What about those of us without a belly button?

hope this is useful! probably the most asked question from beginners!

Very well done, sensei... 💯💯💯

Great no nonsense instruction. Love it.

Why do they work in Ireland? Gravity different over there?

Lots to consider here.

I didnt realise backing away was illegal in judo? Or did you mean BJJ?

I've watched this twice now and eneded up taking notes - that's always a sign of a good instructional video from my POV :)

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It's always a special camp when marcus visits, he always brings great energy and a big range of ideas with him. if you're ever in melbourne his dojo is really cool and well worth a visit.

the headlock hip throw, a lot!

Great session marcus!

Don't hit yokomenuchi from behind your ear, that opens you up. Strike on your central line, so your hand stays covering you in front, turn it as a side cut by turning your body. Use also the other hand to contact opponents front hand.

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no real test, the guy cooperates and is not resistin

Speak for yourself, I was good at every technique

I used to work with this big guy who liked to test me. I was 145lbs and had practiced at an Aikikai for less than a year when I threw him with Kokyu Nage. He was a fit 260lbs with a high school wrestling and football (American) background. One day he came at me, in good fun, but with a strong aggressive attack. He grabbed both my biceps and started pushing. There's no way that I could resist this guy, but with my novice Aikido technique he went flying, landing safely on a pile of broken down cardboard boxes. It convinced me that Aikido can work!

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A good point he makes about fights not starting when you're actually ready. it's aalways some random drunk or a crack head that suddenly appears out of bloody nowhere!

It's interesting that when senior grades talk about "reliable techniques" it's very often the basics. That kokyu is one of the simplest ways to unbalance a person but very effective as its a whole body movement

Great clip talks a lot of sense

It's great to have people of marcus' experience not only in the organisation but on the channel. I hope he can make itr over to summer camp next year!

Unfortunately for me hard art philosophy didn't work for me when Aikido philosophy plus Bible studies did

Garage Aikido.

Was just thinking: I need a good video that reacquaints me with the basic fundamental aiki movements. Dunk to the rescue again!!!😂

if you find yourself on your back that means you weren't doing aikido... now how to do aikido without doing aikido?

Ive watched these "Fix Aikido" videos up to this one. I wanted to watch them all before commenting and I dont see a pt7 so Im assuming and hoping this is the last in the series. From the perspective of someone who was in love with Aikido as a kid, who trained in it for about a year back around 2000-01 and then basically learned that as cool and fun as it was, I would be better of doing other things and moved on, who still wants Aikido to be as good as I thought it was when I didnt know any better, and who has a little over 35 yrs history in a variety of martial arts and combat sports, heres my perspective on how to fix Aikido. And Sensei, if youre reading this, I hope that I can articulate some of the things that I think youve chosen not to say, outright. From the points youve made in these videos I think a lot of this will be familiar to you, already. First thing for the Aikido community at large needs to do is attempt to collectively decide or reconcile what "Aikido" even is. Its clear that what O'Sensei was doing when he first began teaching was different from the Aikido that he was trying to leave behind him as an old man. The prevailing belief is that many or most of his early students came to him already skilled in other styles and Aikido training was "tougher" and "more martial" in the beginning. More Aiki-jujutsu than Aiki-do. This is the first part of what has to be reconciled - O'sensei changed the system deliberately over time and in the end he intended it as a means of personal development (enlightenment?) and "achieving peace". Even if the only changes you make are done with the intention to steer back towards the "tougher, more martial" version of Aikido, would it still be Aikido? Or would it be "Ueshiba Aiki-jujitsu"? Which brings up the next part of reconciling - the "cult of personality" around sensei Ueshiba. Do you think its still appropriate for new students to accept the role of being disciples of a man who theyve never met and who was dead before they were even born? Because if the answer is "yes" then there is not much "fixing" to be done. Look to the history - Ueshibas writings and interviews, speeches etc, lectures and writings of his direct students, ect - maybe start with Stanley Pranin, he covered as much of that ground as he could so you can try picking up where he left off, and just do your best to be loyal disciples. Whatever changes you make need to be from the mindset of following the path he (should I say "He"?) laid out. Or choose to drop the discipleship and decide what you want your Aikido to be, _today_ Assuming you want it to be effective as a form of self defense, how far do you want to take that approach? Is being probably able to defend yourself from a drunk throwing a haymaker good enough? Do you want the system to be competent against people who are fit and can actually fight? The flaws I see in Aikido as a fighting system are: A) Its confused about what it is. B) it is lacking in contextual understanding of what it is doing and is generally ignorant of what it will face in real life fighting, especially fighting people from other, more competent systems. C) Theres no sincere sparring A) Confusion - is it a fighting system or a philosophy or a path to "enlightenment"? Is it sword fighting or not? Is it a grappling system or not? Im gonna skip the enlightenment/philosophy part (but thats a huge aspect of the confusion I mentioned) and go to the sword thing. Every Aikidoka knows its a "sword art" but you arent using swords and somehow no one seems to think this is silly. Yea I know theres jo/bokken kata but be real - why are you training to use a sword to defend against sword attacks when neither person has a sword in their hands? Its like kids pointing their fingers at each other and yelling "BANG BANG YOURE DEAD!" thinking this will make them good both at shooting AND at karate. If youre gonna train swords then keep the swords (or sticks) but if youre going to train punches then use punches. B) Contextual understanding its own techniques and general ignorance of fighting systems. Starting with punching.Aiki punches almost always the same thing: 1) uke in fighting stance. 2) uke strikes with rear hand while stepping forward with rear foot. 3) force and bodyweight are projected into the attack to "give good energy" to Tori. In boxing this kind of strike is called a "shift" so it loosely resembles something real but in boxing its used probably less than 1% of the time and the way yall do it is completely out of context of how its used even in that 1% - so you have a thousand ways to defend these artificial "punches" that almost no one will ever actually throw at you and not one single defense against a properly thrown straight right/right cross (or "backhand" as they say across the pond). I'll condense the point down to "no one gets a black belt without two years training in boxing under a boxing coach from a gym that competes in actual, full contact boxing matches". You could condense that down to spending a few weeks looking up and practicing correct boxing techniques on youtube. Jab, straight, 1,2, and lead hook, at least. Learn how to do them correctly, and how to set them up and throw them so as to make them more likely to land. Adapt your system to actual punches instead of just doing Aikido sword strikes with a balled fist. Next is the grappling. Starting with wrist grabs. Theres tons of wrist grab defenses in Aikido but they tend to be just as out of context as the "punches" and "punch defenses". Next time you do your wrist grab stuff tell uke "let go and pull your hand back before I can do the technique". How much of what youre doing just vanishes? Try it and find out? Question: why would someone grab your wrist _and hold on to it_ long enough for you to shiho-nage? 1) because you have a knife in your hand and they know youll stab them if they let go. 2) because theyre drunk or dumb and dont know any better, 3) because thats what sensei told them to do. Of those things, only the first one makes sense to train as a martial tactic. If we just ask "why would someone grab your wrist?" then the best answer in a martial context is "because they know what theyre doing" Wrist grabs (wrist control) are a real thing in grappling systems but (unlike most Aikido) they have real meaning and real context behind them. Russian ties, 2 on 1's, "Kimura" or "Americana" ura/ude garame, wrist control and collar tie, wrist control and underhook, etc. If Judoka or wrestler grabs your wrist, that grab is just one part of a larger plan. Theyre not just generically grabbing your wrist, theyre going to do it in a particular way in accordance with the particular plan. If you do something to negate that plan, they let go and do something else. If youre training to defend against real wrist grabs then you need to understand how theyre really used. If youre grabbing each others wrists without the slightest clue of what to actually do with it once you've got it then what are you really doing? If youre defending grabs from people who dont know what theyre doing when they grab you then what are you really defending? Same for the lapel grabs. If you dont actually know what to do with someones lapel then why are you grabbing it and why do they need some technically complicated, formalized method of defending it? If youre defending something you dont understand then how do you judge the effectiveness of your defense? How do you refine it or adapt it to different circumstances? Its back to pointing your fingers and yelling "BANG!" So, no one gets a black belt without two years of Judo lol C) Sincere sparring. I know a lot of techniques can cause injury if uke resists but thats usually only after a certain point. One thing that could improve your techniques is to only do them up to the point where tori and uke agree that trying to escape would cause injury. If uke knows they wont be hurt then theyre free to let go or even really resist, at least up to that point. If tori can reach that point then everyone knows the technique worked. This one small change adds a lot of sincerity right off the bat. Also, learn some basic judo grips and throwing set ups and positions (even if you dont actually throw) and apply the aiki defenses to those. And at some point uke needs to be free to attack how they see fit. This _people sticking out their hands with a "pull my finger" grin on their face_ stuff has got to be put in check lol.

0:54 This reminds me of a similar technique from a Shorei-kan karate kata.