Appreciate your opinion. In order to learn proper responses it often does require some degree of cooperation to develop skillsets. Combat is of Course a very different animal indeed and something I have experienced several times. I respect your point and agree in some ways. I had fought in full contact kick boxing etc…all of those experiences don’t begin to describe Srebrenica or Fallujah…for my own sanity - returning to classical martial arts has helped me gain perspective and balance. Thank You and with respect all levels and varieties of training have value - and of course real experience carries its own lessons on our inhumanity and brutality. 🙏🙏 Respectfully, Dane Harden Colonel U.S. Army (Retired)

You’re very kind🙏⭕️. I am pushing 70 years in age and the answer is consistency and perseverance - even with injuries from military service to my hip and pelvis (fractures) time and training - motion is lotion as they say…Thank You for the kind remarks. 🙏

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Appreciate your opinion - I have used many martially applicable techniques while serving as a soldier in various combat settings. It is difficult - to present anything approaching the reality of true combatant attack and the stress duress and fear that occur in combative situations. This is meant as a training video - so with respect I do appreciate your opinion in regard to speed, timing and aggression - it is training that can and often does prepare an individual for a combat situation. And finally - no I am not misleading people - on that I disagree - it is training for the nuance of trainings purpose - Thank You for your opinion.

任何拳術，都贏不過鍵盤俠的嘴巴。

Haha! Actually I have an artificial hip from being injured in the military - screws and hardware in my pelvis. Motion is lotion. 🙏🦅🇺🇸

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@@daneharden1317 Thanks! I'm enjoying the lessons and look forward to the Dojo tour!

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Thank You. For the kind remark! Osu!!!

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I’ve heard it as a range of 30-45’ - And yes itS likely a stylistic difference. I know is competition cutting they’ll actually add a angle protractor to see who can get the perfect 45’. Thanks for the comment Christian! Osu!!!

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Thank You I certainly appreciate it very much!!

Chris Thanks for the honest comment. No worries - the opening attack of a haymaker is the more common opening assault. The idea of the rapid one-two strike is done in order to prevent an open transition. Transition is a lock boxing term Joe Lewis used to describe a “pause” between movements. Like Atemi is used to interrupt an assault. We tend to get hit in the transition points - so the training concept is to press the advantage created by the attack. Many similar principle involving the momentum of battle that we use in the military - a cool historical quote by Nathan Bedford Forrest was “to keep up the scare”...momentum once initiated has to be rapidly pressed. That’s always very difficult to do on a training series video. Thanks so much! Dane S. Harden, Colonel - US Army (Retired)

The elbow point entry stuns the opponent which is chance for the choke

Thank You Redenna for the kind remarks!

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That’s awesome - Thanks for watching!!

You sure those aren’t just Thai sweeps or something ?

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I’m not familiar with that topic of spirit activation? I’ll have to look at it - 🙏 Osu!

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Yes I do agree - understanding foot work movement timing are all part of the equation. I do understand “combat” as I deployed many times into combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and other places after thirty five years in the Army - in direct operations I do understand that point well. I often try to teach - where appropriateness of tools and their usage occur. Three : stand up, close quarters transitional and then ground. Each has tools, strengths and weaknesses - Aikido focuses on its transitional world - sparring and tandoori help - but also striking to interrupt and creat transitional timing for counters etc...all help. Great comments! Thank you - Dane Harden, Colonel - US Army (Retired)

@@daneharden1317 well said 👍

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If you do not know how to defend yourself, Aikido cannot teach you how. If you already know how to defend yourself, Aikido is incredibly powerful. ... Why Aikido gets a bad rap: - Most of Aikido's technique arsenal is prohibited in sport environments. - Wrist/finger control is much more difficult vs gloves and taped wrists. - Most Aikido teachers know only soft Aikido, not the harsher orginal art. - Aikido's techniques largely assume an aggressor is moving toward you. ... If you ever get jumped in the street vs multiple (hopefully unarmed) opponents, the martial art most likely to save your life is Aikido. It is not a dueling martial art where you square off with an opponent and out-strike, out-wrestle, or out-grapple them. It is a battlefield martial art designed to keep you on your feet, get you back onto your feet should you fall, dispatch an opponent in ONE TECHNIQUE, and move in a way that keeps you aware of your surroundings (usually using your footwork both during and after a technique. It is designed, from the ground up, to take on multiple opponents. Aikido can be boiled down to one principle -- if nobody has grabbed you, that means you can run away. As soon as people begin trying to force you into a fight, Aikido shines.

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