Real Aikido Sparring Part Deux!

[@MichaelT83310]

Had a suggestion. What I’ve seen from you is approaching your taekwondo skills and aikido skills in completely separate atmospheres. What I think would be cool so seeing how you merge them. If you were in a self defense situation in real life, I highly doubt you would shift to either “aikido mode”, or “taekwondo mode”, you would most likely use everything you’ve learned and what worked best. What would be cool is do these types of situation sparring but using both your taekwondo and aikido skills to practice how you would genuinely protect yourself, by adding more variables to your sparring, you could start to organically figure out where aikido fits into the picture. So more for example, you throw your kicks & strikes at range, but when you’re grabbed is when you apply your aikido. Overall, really loving your content, just some thoughts / suggestions I had.

[@ChuShinTani]

Good work!

[@MichaelT83310]

Fucking LOVE this content. This is what martial arts needs more of! Experimenting, testing ideas! This is the best approach to aikido I’ve seen yet on KZbin. Keep it up.

[@tkdguide]

@@MichaelT83310 thank you so much for the feedback. It’s good to know someone is finding it valuable.

[@crossroadsaccountingtax6326]

Very good content and very honest evaluation! This IS pressure testing. And exactly what the criticism of much of TMA is focused on. Keep this up, and please keep sharing these videos!

[@ВикторАтанасов-ь2щ]

Finally someone who understands aikido! And you showed some great sparring footage. I loved the kaiten nage examples.

[@combatlearning]

This is pretty good for what it is tbh Daniel makes a good point that a lot of common self-defense areas don't afford free space this much (parts of parking lots, the store, restaurants/bars, alleyways, crowds of people, busy traffic, etc.) so practicing in more confined spaces will be necessary and will make the task more demanding. The other part of the equation is to introduce strikes as part of the "perceptual load" of the training equation, seeing how that complicates the evasion element. A final level--not essential but still important since you can't choose whom you might need to use this against--would be to practice with permissible enough constraints against a skilled grappler of wrestling or nogi jiu jitsu.

[@PracticalTangSooDo]

Good stuff. This kind of honest assessment and testing is the kind of thing we need more of in the martial arts. I do have a criticism here though, and it’s true of a lot of other martial arts. You guys are in a wide open space that gives you a lot of room to maneuver. This is an environment that makes the attacker’s strategy difficult to pull off, especially considering that he doesn’t have a size advantage. If you were somewhere a bit more enclosed, like a parking lot with cars around you, he would have had a much easier time putting you in a position where these maneuvers would be more difficult. I attended a seminar years ago where the instructor made this point and encouraged us to get into a predatory mindset. In a criminal attack, it makes sense to go after someone in an environment where you can corner them. I don’t know if a part three is something you would be willing to do but I think the same exercise in an environment like this, where there are obstacles you can be cornered against, would make your case more convincing. Regardless, good stuff and great channel.

[@tkdguide]

@@PracticalTangSooDo Why hello, I’m fan of your channel! You are correct, in fact, using the obstacles as barriers is supposed to be part of the training. We haven’t gotten that far yet. In classes we change the ring size up sometimes. I would also point out that not every system has an answer for every situation. Aikido doesn’t give you much of anything for being on the ground for example. I think that’s ok, a system cannot possibly cover everything.

[@tkdguide]

@@PracticalTangSooDo a side note, I’ve been working on your naihanchi based clinch sparring for awhile now. You guys make it look easy. I’ve shown some of my students your videos. Good stuff!

[@PracticalTangSooDo]

@@tkdguide thanks! Clinching definitely takes some getting used to. I first started doing it about 10 years ago. Took awhile to developed sensitivity with it. Really helped when I started to prioritize live training.

[@asp9440]

It would be fun to watch some videos of how to integrate hapkido basics with taekwondo

[@SoufianBoulaich67]

Merci teacher ☯️👍☺❤ 🥋 !

[@Snowl3pard]

10 minutes in and i gotta say this is fun to watch, if u allowed urself to do throws and locks these situations would have been over pretty quickly, I will say tho, note I haven’t watched the full video yet, but something it’s missing is striking, u guys r in range to throw hands and knees and ik thats hard to do like safely, but I’d like to point out that u were in a lot of positions that were very open and in a fight u could catch a hand there bc u leaned to far forward w ur hands down, but, this may have been bc u know he isn’t going to throw and punches so I’m just like pointing it out to consider. I’ll edit this or something when I’m done watching if I need to add anything else I’m just impatient tonight lol.

[@MUHAMMADSALEEM-ed7il]

great

[@Precisionist_Antifier]

Aikido for sure is not that good when it comes to higher level But still, it's one very cool martial art!

[@tkdguide]

@@Precisionist_Antifier it’s not for fighting people.

[@myeramimclerie7869]

what do you mean with "when it comes to a higher level"? it gets worse the longer you train? It's not effective against someone of another art at a high level?

[@Precisionist_Antifier]

@@myeramimclerie7869 i dont mean being pro at Aikido makes you bad, higher levels here references to like MMA and or maybe streetfights yk what im sayin

[@myeramimclerie7869]

@@Precisionist_Antifier so you're saying it's not effective against high level MMA fighters? This is a self-defense art for thugs on the street, not for a cage fight with pros... And pros of cage fighting (or any martial art) rarely start fights in the street... Also, if you have two martial artist fighting each other, the more experienced will win, no matter the style or art they're performing.

[@Precisionist_Antifier]

@@myeramimclerie7869 sound fair enough then!