Aikido effortless power and eliminate poor posture

[@N17C1]

Your stances look quite like some of the photos of Gozo Shioda from the 1950s. I always thought his stances looked stylised but after watching your video, I now realise what he was doing.

[@paulfrank1777]

Exactly. If you watch his videos, he drops his body weight at the instant somebody tries to grab him projects them backwards. He was very good at that technique.

[@KarlDScott]

Stumbled across your video and enjoyed it, thanks for posting 🙏. I rarely comment on videos but I just wanted to add that what you are explaining is really emphasised by knee walking, and efficient shikko has this built in. 🙏

[@aasaikidoryu]

Thanks for posting! I´ve been looking at this, and been cross-referencing with a couple of books. My understanding is that it´s basically a continous, unstable fall forward. From what you´re saying I believe my challenge has been 2 steps. (1) too long steps causing problems with bringing my center of mass (COM) over my leading foot (ashi sansoku) without rising up into resistance, and (2) not pulling up my back leg tight enough to the centerline which has caused "lateral drift". :)

[@ThomMart]

Excellent!

[@sarahfrank6550]

Great video!

[@jaketheasianguy3307]

It's funny. I instinctively discovered the most optimal way to generate power going forward is to lower your stance and your center of gravity instead of just leaning the shoulder forward when i was practicing wrestling, and later on i applied it to swordsmanship as well. To increase the effectiveness of the shoulder throw (or Seoi Nage in Judo) against another trained person, the basic just won't cut it so i dropped down to 1 knee while still trying to maintain my structure and his resistance to the throw decreased dramatically. Swordsmanship is also the same, a high cut downward with power generated from body weight + a strong posture instead of just leaning and throwing yourself into an attack is both powerful and safe for the attacker. It created a massive pressure to the opponent, gives him no room to do anything else but defend the strike while throwing an unstable attacks would give him opportunity to counter cut in single tempo

[@justgayansanjeewa]

Great Video.

[@aikidogo]

great video.

[@juliusjimenez5271]

Is this Yoshinkan or KSR Yawara?