TenShin Aikido - Lenny Sly sensei 2006 seminar

This video is a Tenshin aikido seminar filmed back in 2006 that Lenny Sly sensei hosted at his original Kanazuchi dojo in gilberts illinios. For more videos like this one and an extensive list of exclusive training videos sign up for our online training at roguewarriorst...

[@gengispolanco5114]

Lenny after 11 years when this video was filmed your skills are still sharp as a sword. God bless you always my friend.

[@db124760]

Good to see back then you still had a focus to make aikido better even back then.

[@ggongi3141]

Sly Sensei, I really enjoy and appreciate your videos! I have a background in aikikai style aikido, but of a 'harder' variation I guess: I studied with an uchi-deshi of T.K. Chiba shihan for a couple of years in college, and then with students of Tohei shihan during four years of grad school in Wisconsin. I became fascinated with aikido after watching the opening scene in Above The Law. I was a senior in high school at the time, with several years of taekwondo training. But that irimi-nage in the opening scene was something I had never seen before. I HAD to find out what style that was. It's clear from watching you that you have an utterly solid foundation in classical aikido. I'm surprised to learn that your background in aikido is in the ASU. Your style is so crisp and not-dance-like, that I assumed you learned your basics in the USAF. Goes to show how assumptions can be wrong, as is so often the case in life. I really appreciate how generous of a sensei you are: you patiently break things down in such a clear way for your students. And I love how you demonstrate how to apply aikido in response to more realistic, practical attacks, with smaller, more direct movements, yet remaining true to the principles of getting off the line, controlling the center, keeping posture, as is emphasized in classical aikido. Even in training with Chiba shihan's uchi-deshi, we never got to see these practical applications. Just a lot of being really hard on your uke, who would leave his arm hanging out there for nage to go to town on. Seagal sensei is who he is, warts and all. But he's made a really important contribution to the development of aikido, in my opinion: he shows that it can be a practical, yet still beautiful, martial art. And I think your aikido is a really shining example of that. I think he should be proud to have you as someone who's keeping the tenshin aikido flame alive. I would totally train with you if I were still living in the Chicago area. Thank you for your videos -- even though I don't do any martial arts training any more, I still enjoy watching top-notch aikido like yours. I think you're up there with the best of the best classical aikodoka like Tissier shihan and his top students like Bruno Gonzalez. Thank you!

[@shihonage]

Thank you Lenny. That uke-nagashi-into-hiji-shime is becoming one of my favorite techniques. It is certainly one of the most practical ones. You should see the face of uke at my old dojo when he gave me an insincere attack (ijiwaru keiko) and instead of prescribed technique I pulled him into hiji-shime.

[@guacarock2001]

Thanks for sharing Sensei

[@reubinbagares5914]

you actually looks like Steven Seagal here...I even thought it was him at first.😂😂😂

[@nathanjordan9125]

i hope the best for you!

[@SLYSCOMBATIVECONCEPTS13]

+nathan jordan Thanx brother

[@bouamahichem6267]

OSS SENSEI

[@afiqsince86]

im glad you decided to go bald