Ikajo demonstration and explanation

This clip is a demonstration and explanation of a variation of Ikajo. The goal is to displace upon contact because of the danger of getting stabbed, struck, etc., if you stay in place to execute a technique. Managing your relationship with an attacker has to take priority. The arm that is grasped is completely relaxed and the heel, hip and elbow move into the same space at the same time.

[@alkaroshi]

Uncommon common sense. I have been teaching this principle and this way of doing kosa dori ikkyo for years - thanks for this film and many others. Keep them coming!

[@teppeikai1928]

I look forward to that upcoming video footage. I thoroughly enjoy your lucid explanations of basic principles. I share you concern about losing so much, as I have been trying to counter this in my own system. We owe it to all the generations of teachers/ students before us to keep alive the essence of what they strove so hard to understand and develop.

[@SystemOfStrategy]

Gentlemen, thank you for the nice comments. At present I am taking some clips from dojo classes and seminars, including our Nami ryu instructors seminars. I am working on putting more cohesive video together. Samurai were very practical and innovative. So much has been lost and for understandable reasons however the classical arts have more to offer than anything else that I have seen or studied over the last 50 years of training and teaching.

[@Despierto]

Hello!, Have you considered releasing a series of DVD with Aiki applications to modern self defense situations? Or a series on the principles and how to apply them to such situations in general? Keep up the excellent work and thanks for keeping this art/system alive and evolving into the 21rst Century.

[@dannysees]

Did something very similar a few years ago behind a nightclub in San Diego (technically La Mesa) - things like this definitely do work in the "grab 'n stab" scenario. The little aspects make a big difference between works in dojo only and works in real life.