Tony Jeffries’ Reaction to an Aikido Demo is Priceless

A reaction to a reaction video as former champion boxer Tony Jefferies is introduced to the world of bullshido. Did our renowned Olympic boxing medalist misunderstand something about Steven Seagal’s aikido demo? Or was his reaction spot on?
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[@LORDVADER357]

Tony thinks that he could box his way out in true fight? Only if oponent is not in clinch position. Aikido Demo is done to show the methods. A bit slow motion so crowd can see the move set. Once Aikido is in clinch distance forget about boxing. Overhand? Good luck.

[@RamseyDewey]

I’m just going to pin this comment to see what everyone else thinks about Tony’s chances of out boxing an Aikido practitioner.

[@jameskillen4369]

Um... 96 amateur & 10 professional fights multiple Olympic medals... Pretty sure he can fight my guy, trained fighters stomp I see red guys even if they only practice one discipline

[@PazCristo]

@@jameskillen4369 Does the guy with the pinned comment know who Tony or Steven 'Sigung' is?

[@foolishyish]

@@RamseyDewey lmao ramsey i got into it with a guy who said he heard of a tai chi master breaking a brick by tapping his finger lol

[@MrCmon113]

Boxers are pulled out of the clinch by the ref, yeah. But Aikido guys never practice the clinch or avoiding punches or kicks or takedowns. Or really anything. I'd put my money on a competitive tekken player of an Aikido guy - at least the former practices against resistance.

[@jasonkleung]

Next time my aunt comes up to me and tries to hug me I know exactly what to do. She will never see that clothesline. I will whisper in her ear, "Steven Segal sends his regards". Then I will proclaim to the world the greatness of Aikido.

[@doyourownresearch7297]

Aunt-kido. It only works on the elderly, women, and the infirm.

[@LORDVADER357]

@@doyourownresearch7297 Works on everything.

[@mindblockandroid]

What Tony doesn’t know is that Aikido is FO DA STREETZ!!

[@birth9697]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PaMuShin]

the only one using this for streetz are probably the french guys and yet they were rather running away at the yellow vest riots, which is kind of in line with aikido, non violence

[@PaMuShin]

even worse while the riots not the aikido of police became famous but a boxer with motorcycle gloves

[@PaMuShin]

thing about aikido is that is was made by the founder into a gun with a filling and as such most people wield it. By the time you have enough experience in other martial arts to unlock it, you probably not gonna use it anymore as your main style.

[@marcpuls4798]

😮 or😮😮​@@birth9697

[@themetkaf]

I met Tony Jeffries once, he comes from the same town as me. He'd just got back from the Olympics in Beijing. He was in a pub where I used to go with my family. He let us hold his medal. A really nice guy. Glad to see him doing well these days.

[@J-P88]

Dude, my dad use to always wear that style of hat, bringing back some of my good old childhood memories

[@RamseyDewey]

This hat belonged to my grandad. He was a coal miner. He raised racing pigeons as a hobby. It’s good to have something that brings back the memories of those we love.

[@J-P88]

​@@RamseyDeweymy old man was in construction, welder, rigger and alot more a proper jack of all trades, I haven't thought about that style of hat or how it use to be a trademark item of his until seeing it on you. That and good quality leather boots

[@malapertfourohfour2112]

Flat caps are based fashion

[@unironicallyablueraspberry4959]

​@@RamseyDewey Ramesy are you a real G?

[@wayhectic8615]

@@RamseyDeweyyour such a good person bro

[@JoeK-qd5dl]

“Daddy, are they stupid?” Those are words I will never forget 😂😂😂

[@laperrablanca1]

Tony Jeffries is definitely one of my favorites

[@robertetin1156]

To answer Tony's question, based on what I've seen of actual Akido, it can probably be useful for someone who needs to control a much smaller and/or much weaker opponent who is not really a danger but needs to be moved or forced to comply with minimal damage. So a police officer or soldier dealing with prisoners could probably benefit from some knowledge of Akido in addition to their regular combatives or hand to hand combat training. I think Akido is basically meant as a supplement for someone who already knows how to defend themselves but is looking for extra tools to exert control over someone they can already dominate easily but maybe just don't want to injure too badly in the process.

[@codo430]

Aikido sounds like an ANTI-martial art. Not a bad thing to have if you're 6'8.

[@RandyWinn42]

I have indeed heard the justification of aikido as a supplement, and I suppose anything that looks at physical skills from a new point of view may be helpful. Several professional (American) footballers have benefitted from ballet, for example. However, in practice, aikido dojos are almost universally open to beginners. Morohei Useshiba my have focussed on high-level practitioners of other arts - as he was himself - but it appears from his message as propounded by my instructors that his intention was that aikido is for everyone

[@maxgehtdnixan4913]

Regular wrestling is much more useful, but as a security officer, you learn a set of moves to be used in conjunction with other officers. You have to know every part of the process, but, generally, you try not to detain alone if you can avoid it. I would not call it a martial art so much as a crash course in securing someone safely as a team. We do, however, put every one of our guys through the white belt basics of judo so they can at least learn how to fall without hurting themselves. That's a life skill.

[@angelotsi849]

Aikido evolved as a less brutal form of Ju Jitsu. A pacifist martial art if you will. It probably has some health benefits and may be useful in some situations but is not a completely effective martial art on its own.

[@dbuck1964]

Trained in Tomiki Aikido for over 10 years, and you have absolutely hit the nail on the head. While I am not a fan of seagulls demonstration of Aikido, I will say that there are lots people who have a high level of skill who can do what he demonstrates. However, whether they can actually employ the skills in real combat, absolutely depends on the foundation of other martial arts combined with experience in actual street combat. The average person without other training experience, trying to employ Aikido in real life, is very likely to be killed.

[@HisLordshipShrek]

It's not choreographed, that guy was moving preemptively because they're already being slowed down by Seagals Chi.

[@CrazyTom34]

my favorite part is all the Sambo guys in the background just being like "look at these asshats I could kneebar without trying"

[@drekohfit]

you and tony are real fighteres, with the feet on the ground.. he start training jiu jitsu too.. hope see him in your channel some day

[@scottt7309]

Hi Ramsey. Thank you again for answering my question yesterday. Much appreciated. I'm going to keep training and enjoying it.

[@MartialCoachJF]

Aiki is + or- 33% of my background, as in Yoseikan Budo. I can only say as per my experience, good aiki is only in people who also know fighting. Such exercise was intended to train falls (it's for the attackers, not the receiver) mostly, no reality application is required by who "suggests where to fall".Thanks Always great Coach 🙏💪🥋

[@christophervelez1561]

You know what really bothers me about this demo? Is the fact this is taking place at, what looks to be, a large sambo tournament. Imagine you’re waiting to start competing and they put this nonsense on.

[@pinecone4610]

A hat will not stop me, Dewey Man. It only adds fuel to my desire to grasp that beautiful chroma dome

[@JHamister1]

Love both of these guys! Very cool to see the humor as well as mutual respect

[@mrsenkur613]

That fake low and come up with the high kick is amazing, could you show more of this kind of set ups?

[@magyarbondi]

Well, if you like getting knocked out... 😂

[@kapilthevkanapathipillai6424]

Ramsey, the way you described how a typical street fights go is exactly how my school fights went 😅🤣😂 you can just turn that into a sketch. It's just perfect.

[@BMO_Creative]

LOL Tony's reaction was hilarious!

[@jswets5007]

According to every stuntman who has worked with Seagul, if you don't play along he will hurt you in any way he can. This includes broken bones and ruined careers. Steven Sadgul...

[@nickcarroll8565]

So he CAN hurt people?

[@RaimundoPAM]

yeah, sure, because they would be unemployed and expelled if they resisted...

[@jswets5007]

@@nickcarroll8565 Anyone can hurt a person who lets themselves be put into a wrist lock by someone who they think is not going to hurt them.

[@jswets5007]

@@RaimundoPAM Resist as in, make him actually throw them instead of throwing themselves like these guys do. 😂

[@jswets5007]

@@nickcarroll8565 It isn't hard to hurt someone who lets you put them in a wristlock because they don't think you're going to hurt them. 😂

[@angel8fingers]

I had that same hat in ‘96!

[@Mishalex]

Thanks for teaching me a new word today, Ramsey. Even as a comic book and D&D fan myself, I curiously had never heard the term ergokinesis used before today. Fun little word. The more you know... 🌠, haha.

[@jimhattery4348]

Thank you, Coach Ramsay! I needed a smile!

[@1001retronights]

100% Agree. great reaction to a reaction.

[@ricky9067]

Your description of a street fight had me cracking up, so true!

[@Seantorky3]

Great Video , thanks.

[@raccoonmyroom6861]

I love Tony, he gives susinct boxing advice and he has some of my favorite videos on trying BJJ for the first time.

[@Bambor]

The funniest part of these Seagall Aikido videos or shorts is the comment section.

[@DagwoodDogwoggle]

My observation and information on aikido is that it can be effective AFTER a practitioner learns some kind of fundamental striking and some kind of fundamental grappling. I've met bouncers and police officers that swear by aikido holds to control a problem. Whenever I did I asked if they just straight up grab the opponents wrists and all of them said some variation of, "No no. First you gotta get control of their body with some kind of grappling. Sometimes a strike is necessary too as a distraction." I also had a friend, my former best friend for 20 years in fact, who started with aikido until one day he just decided it was useless except for one time he fell off his bicycle avoiding a car and the brakefall rolls they learned saved him. Anyway this friend switched to a much more combat oriented school, and after 3 years of that he noticed he could occasionally apply some aikido in the clinch or on the ground.

[@shavedape2102]

I took Aikido classes for a while, the attacker, 'Uke' as they call you, is basically stuntman training, learning how to dramatically throw yourself around

[@MrOpenSeseme]

Love your channel

[@andyboz4752]

Ramsey, I hope you told your daughter, "why yes. Yes, they are stupid."

[@RandyWinn42]

What I got out of aikido was some good friends and the ability to take a fall, which is very helpful the older I get - lots of old people die of side-effects from falls. As for fighting? Well, practice was *always* choreographed, so that you knew what offensive technique the opponent (uke) was going to use. This was a great advantage, although I do not know how that works IRL. Also, attackers were supposed to be compliant so you could learn the proper form. If attacker resisted, you might not be able to complete the technique, and what's the sense of that ;-) Another thing you'll notice in those demos is that the attacker never follows up. One would think that if the defender has taken control of your left arm, you would use your right arm to punch them or grab them somewhere helpful ... but that's not aikido, I guess. Also attackers should never throw a combination of 2 or more punches because that interferes with practicing proper technique. I think what happens with sincere people - like me and my friends and my instructors - is we stepped onto the mat expecting to be taught a very cool martial art, possibly the best one because it advertized the peaceful resolution of conflict - and wouldn't that be a great thing? The first couple of years I understood I had to practice compliant technique and so forth, because learning sophisticated technique takes time. After enough time had passed, the sceptics had left and we who were left just enjoyed each other's company a lot. Like I said, great friends. We also persuaded ourselves that we were indeed practicing the ultimate martial art, I believed in all sincerity. Don't ask me why, that's just how people are sometimes. Now as for insincere people - of which there are some in every part of life - Mr. Seagal has a meal ticket. Why does he need to practice effective technique when the money is rolling in? All this is by way of explanation, not of excuse. Humans are funny people.

[@southtxguitarist8926]

You summed this up very well. I only took Aikido for a few months from a former guitar student of mine who was at that time 4th dan and the highest ranked Aikido instructor in the area. I'm going to preface the rest by saying this guy was one of the kindest people I've ever known, so from that perspective his martial arts training was obviously legit. I'd had other martial arts training, and I'd ask him questions like "would this really work?" and he was very patient with his answers. He told me that when he earned 1st dan ranking he'd sparred a Karate black belt and gotten his ass kicked. This was around the mid 1990's and I'd seen a couple of UFC's, and when I heard about a weekend training cruise with Royce and Rorion Gracie I jumped on it and went. When I got back I was telling my Aikido instructor friend about it and his exact words were "I don't know anything about fighting on the ground." That was my last Aikido class.

[@Emcron]

dang, if i could move stuff with my mind, i'd never encounter a traffic jam ever again XD

[@NestingSpider]

I bought one of Tony's shirts!

[@Pyrela]

Aikido has a strict 'No Hugging' policy.

[@ivanildocafu3452]

Son enormes 😮

[@lightxxatu]

Hi Ramsey, I started doing kickboxing recently, around end of january. I recently took a few hits that wasn't so good in sparring (my fault, I was leaning back at a bad angle), and I had a really bad headache for a night, and some minor head pains in the next few following days. What signs should i look for to tell if it's serious enough to warrant taking a break/seeing a doctor, and/or how long to wait before sparring again?

[@christophervelez1561]

This is the reaction meta!

[@solomonkain]

Love the flatcap, coach. I have a similar one.

[@TimRHillard]

Tony is a good dude and excellent fighter.

[@me2bfc]

I took Aikido for a few months. It was quite useful. The break falls are quite valuable. One in particular saved me from a broken arm when I was dumb enough to step onto a skateboard the first time.

[@serpentinefire921]

Yeah but you can learn all that in Judo AND actually learn to fight

[@me2bfc]

@@serpentinefire921 while most break falls do overlap between the two there are some that are unique to Aikido. Judo generally doesn’t have throws based on wrist locks while Aikido does. These sometimes have specific break falls that don’t apply to Judo. When I fell off the skateboard this is one I used.

[@me2bfc]

That said, for the break falls that do overlap, I think Judo practitioners are better at them. I certainly didn’t see diving rolling break falls over rows of people in Aikido, but it was a weekly ordeal in Judo.

[@RoyBlumenthal]

Hehehehe! I detected the Easter egg right at the end... Where you said, "Take a LEGITIMATE aikido class".

[@emulare1110]

Comments are good for the KZbin algorithm.

[@mjk934]

I like Tony , been following him for a while, I like that he isn't afraid to try other martial arts like BJJ and Muay Thai, his kicks are rough but he will improve quickly .

[@edwardanderson1053]

Lol have you noticed the Sambo team laughing in the background? Lol mcDojo Master Seagal lol!

[@nicholasgreen339]

Seagal is not fake. . His personality is Off putting to some But aikido isn't fake It was originally aikijitsu But they took the strikes out And created aikido Karare Aikido jujitsu judo r 100 years old... All these styles r all originally from china or derived from Chinese martial arts There r 100s of chinese wrestling styles This is the origin of judo

[@shouldb.studying4670]

Liked and comment for the hat alone!

[@sharkinahat]

Don't hate on Aikido. It's a great way to learn how to fall down without hurting yourself (much).

[@TheGhostofLlopmondDunderbridge]

100%, breakfalls are incredibly useful but the stuff we were seeing here was silly. I'd say Ramsey is "hating" on Segal more than the art of Aikido as such.

[@RamseyDewey]

You guys need to stop using the word “hate” until you learn what it means.

[@snakeman9902]

Boxing is so underestimated as a MA. boxing is a brilliant MA, they are very fast, great timing, powerful, and amazing reflexes.. Its one of the best for street fighting..

[@DouglasGomesBueno-jw9lh]

But if a Grappler grab a Boxer they doesn’t have skills to defend against Grappling, I think the best are you know a bit of everything that is useful.

[@snakeman9902]

@DouglasGomesBueno-jw9lh Absolutely, I was, however, highlighting the benefits of boxing and why it's underestimated , so many MA's, especially back in the day, didn't rate boxing, they are so limited, they can only use their hands, failing to realise , how destructive them hands are and the skills that go with it. The main criticism came from either MA's that have never had a real fight in their lives or traditional, semi contact fighters.

[@trapperscout2046]

Judo's Nage no Kata is in some ways similar. When you're doing the kata, the tori (person executing the technique) is not so much throwing the uke (person receiving the technique). It's more that the uke is falling for the tori.

[@duck245]

A great man once said "everyone has aa plan until they get hit".

[@nettodrifter6239]

Thank goodness Elmo doesn't interrupt your video this time. 😄

[@AikidoVirtualDojo]

Actually, I love the way you described street fights 😁 Regarding the second attack, it's hard to see, but I guess the attacker was coming with a kind of yokomen'uchi, in a way that he was already pivoting and Seagal's move was "enough" to make him fly... Just by giving him the space to fall into. In my opinion the difficult part in Aikido is translating the basic forms into movements that would be effective against more realistic "street attacks"

[@andyboz4752]

I love that some people are defending this ridiculous bullshido

[@DouglasGomesBueno-jw9lh]

I mean In the classic UFC we saw fighters of Sumo, Karate, Boxing, Savate, Muay Thai, Judo, Kickboxing, Luta Livre, Wrestling, BJJ but never Aikido.

[@WatchMysh]

"300 victories by way of awesomeness" :D

[@LadyBug-xz9et]

What should I do in Bjj if I’m doing a buggy choke and they defend? Is there a way I could get the buggy choke even when they defend?

[@theelysium1597]

drop a link to the Video into the description pls so we can see the original too :)

[@RamseyDewey]

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[@drfistface]

I re-heard your story of passing out bibles and Books of Mormon to muggers while narrating your story. I thought you would be interested to know that your technique of self narration is one I use in healthcare. I typically work with persons of diminished emotional control either due to dementia, traumatic brain injury or drug use - sometimes all three at once. Common situations often result in the patient having an emotional breakdown and subsequently assault their caregivers. I cut down on assaults dramatically by narrating myself. "I am now taking off your left sock, I am now placing your sock on the floor. I am now removing your right shoe" Several patients have told me this helped them stay calm. I also do this when new patients come to the hospital and I need to go through their belongings to record them and search for weapons and drugs, which we do with every single patient, every single time, no matter what. I always narrate "I am now reaching into the primary pocket of your bag, I am removing this shirt, I am unfolding your shirt, I am checking the breast pocket, I am giving it a shake, I am folding the shirt and placing it at the foot of the bed" this has saved me multiple times from people thinking I stole their stuff - even people who tell me repeatedly that my narration is overkill because they trust me will later accuse me of stealing, and I get to remind them that I narrated everything my hands did. I tell new staff about my technique, but it still has not caught on.

[@GrinningNimbus]

What a lot of people don't understand about aikido including a lot of the people who practice/ teach it, is that it's a bunch of low percentage techniques designed to help you use a sword if someone's trying to grab and control you or ways to control someone who has a weapon. And on top of that itvs done in a meditative way that isn't designed to teach you how to actually fight. Aikido is not meant for fighting it's a moving meditation to help improve your body and mind. In fact any japanese martial art with the suffix do (way) is designed to help improve your body, mind, and spirit. They might be a combat sport or they might be a moving meditation but the aim isn't supposed to be to be a violent person it's usually the opposite.

[@blockmasterscott]

Exactly this. So many people just don't get it. Real life Aikido like policemen, club bouncers, prison guards and so on use is a totally different kettle of fish.

[@MrCmon113]

That's absolutely not the case. Aikido is a hand-to-hand fighting system. They don't practice with swords. They do claim that it works. That something is "meditative" is an excuse that only comes up after something was shown not to work.

[@MrCmon113]

@@blockmasterscott Anything works when it's two 100kg dudes against one drunk 70kg idiot.

[@OldSchopenhauer]

Wooden swords are everywhere in aikido.

[@dedydet6646]

Aikido(particularly aikikai) randori is not simulation of a fight, It's more of a practice to evade and to apply aikido techniques in quick successions to multiple attackers. You wouldn't know which one will attack you and the attacker wouldn't know what technique will be applied to them so both of them improvise on the spot according to their roles.

[@WhiteThunder121]

Everytime guys in my Judo dojo train some of these more obscure techniques (for kata), its always "I'm gonna move my hands like this and you're gonna perform a breakfall, alright?" lmao

[@alaychem]

"at least Steven didn't fell into the telekinesis thing" Well, other than the second guy. I practice karate, and we used to do demo in the street square, shoes and protective gear on, full contact fighting with no prearranged moves

[@deenmeah2162]

Is it true a liver shot is an instant knockout? Or have I been shown too small a sample? Also, how do I spar Muay Thai and boxing without getting my ear drums perforated? I failed to block a cross and it perforated my ear drum. Thankfully it healed.

[@imbradtaylor]

Not here to defend Aikido demos, but I always find it humorous when combat sports athletes talk about "a real fight". What I can tell you about is the numerous attacks that were made on me I over 30 years of security and Corrections. With the exception of a few guys armed with a knife and a tire iron( different incidents), every single attack was a punch meant to take my head off. No strategy, no tactics, no fancy footwork. Aikido and Judo work perfectly for predictable attacks, which is what you are statistically most likely to run into if you are working or minding your own business. The next most likely is weapons and weapons such as knives, sticks, bats, bottles and pool cues are normally used the same way that they are used in traditional martial arts and Filipino Martial Arts. Bladed or impact the motions are thrust or slash and those attacks are the type that Aikido and traditional Jujitsu practice in every technique. The type of fighting that Aikido is not meant for are ego fights and combat sports where you're voluntarily engaged in trying to beat the crap out of each other and you are correct that by itself it is not ideal for that and it wasn't created for that. Aikido is Self Defense and if you were truly trying to defend yourself you wouldn't be standing toe to toe with a trained fighter. Only a moron would do that. Having said all that, I don't believe most Aikido schools or practitioners train realistically or are able to defend themselves from a determined attacker. I just disagree that the art of Aikido is at fault for that.

[@richardbernal2823]

It’s the do-rag. You got to wear the do-rag in order for aikido to work.

[@PicaPauDiablo1]

Ramsey, I totally agree with you here. But I've been training with Jose Navarro couspinera, he's got several videos up here and he's a black belt in aikido along with judo and karate, He's really adamant that the movements in aikido the fundamentals are nearly the same as they are in judo and he's pretty amazing I don't know if you've gotten a chance or come across him but if not check him out and see what you think. I mean he's a judo coral belt and it spent his whole life training so he's pretty awesome at all of it but he's quite fond of aikido moves and even skilled BJJ black belts get humbled by him

[@handler803]

Hey Ramsey, what are your thoughts on stopping or at least minimalizing listening to music? Ever done it and has it benefited you?

[@RamseyDewey]

What kind of music are you listening to? And why specifically do you want to stop listening to it?

[@handler803]

@@RamseyDewey from rock to rnb. Im just bored nowadays and enjoy silence better

[@RamseyDewey]

Are you addicted to music and you can’t stop? Or you just want to know what I think about the concept of not listening to music?

[@handler803]

@@RamseyDewey i used to be addicted to music in my younger years but not anymore. I just listen to 1-2 songs nowadays then im done. And yes wanna know your thoughts about stoppijg listening to music

[@colouredtv7407]

Tony makes sense.

[@Priestbokmei1]

Dewey, I suggest you and Tony dial up Segal and have a one on one session with him then make a judgement.

[@louquole]

The funniest thing in my opinion is most of these moves won't even take the opponent down because there's no sweep, at most they might unbalance the attacker a bit or pull the attacker to a different direction.

[@yesbutactuallyno8305]

AIKIDO IS ACTUALLY VERY EFFECTIVE IF YOU CHALLENGE A KINDERGARDEN AS AN ADULT AIKIDO MASTER

[@2002kirbow]

While still not combat sport/street grade by any means, the old school Seagal Aikido demos were legit as hell (for what they were). He was truly doing full on Aikido Randori with ferocity and precision. While he probably still has these skills (perhaps even more refined over time), this recent demo seems like he's barely moving. Hugely different than the 80s/90s Seagal!

[@bizikimiz6003]

I got it! This is not a demo of the martial arts attack moves, it is a rolling demo. And they are doing a good job at it. This is how you roll in a variety of bad situations.

[@rowdyzack5914]

All those poor Samboists who have to stand there respectfully. I wish them well.

[@Noslack412]

I did it for a year before I switched to Judo and BJJ. It is fun and good exercise but nothing more. People just need to stop pretending its something its not.

[@aretzky6647]

I was surprised that Seagal done this without seating in his favorite chair XD

[@judosailor610]

Standing wrist and arm locks (as found in aikido, hapkido, etc) work* in 3 and only 3 circumstances. 1. You have such a significant size and/or strength advantage that you can simply manhandle your opponent. 2. You catch your opponent completely by surprise. 3. Your opponent is not actually fighting back, but is simply passively resisting**. In any other case and especially if your opponent is actively attacking you, it has a very low percentage chance of being applied successfully. In other words, it doesn't work. *Meaning they can be successfully applied a high percentage of the time. **Passive resistance is a LE term used to refer to someone that is refusing your commands , but not actively resisting (aka fighting back). They are basically just standing there, perhaps tensing up, but not pulling away or attacking.

[@scollyb]

4) your opponent is drunk. Seem to work well for some bouncers

[@judosailor610]

@@scollyb Haha. Yeah probably that too. 😂. That said, I have a feeling that a lot of situations bouncers use it in fall under one of the 3 situations I outlined.

[@scollyb]

@judosailor610 true or if not 2 as anything would surprise them

[@sjhmagic1]

I can totally see Seagal doing that. Movie: aikido with the mind.

[@maxbattleman]

Ramsey, what is your necklace? Very good video.

[@RamseyDewey]

It’s a chain with a dragon pendant. One of my students gave it to me.

[@originalAoitora]

Steven's demo made me think of a bad parent coming home from work and his kids are running up to him for a hug and he's throwing them off him "get away kids daddy needs a beer & to sit down"

[@user-nl3sy3ts3l]

❤

[@antoniomrubio]

I’ve trained some aikido along with mostly judo and some BJJ. Aikido is fun and demonstrates some good body positioning and biomechanical ideas to defend against some very committed movement patterns. It’s a low intensity training that has improved my throws a bit and opened my eyes to more wrist locks. That said, I don’t see myself hitting many aikido techniques in BJJ open mat against anyone but a very new white belt. Edited to add: Seagal is considered a joke among aikido people too

[@MrCmon113]

Nope, Seagal is a totally legit Aikido master. The founder of Aikido told people not to spar and pretended to have magical powers. Compared to that guy, Seagal is pretty down to earth.

[@antoniomrubio]

@@MrCmon113 that’s why we do the branch founded by a judo guy (Tomiki) and incorporate it into our judo randori. It’s fun because you have controlled strikes (shoden ate) to the face to set up a throw and can counter an aikido technique with a foot sweep.

[@xhonatanblini]

Ramsey is dripping 😂♥️

[@mastrake]

I always feel like I'm getting straight talk here.

[@JOEY__SR]

Ramsey, what is MMA? There is a gym close to me that calls itself an MMA gym (I'm not trashing them in anyway) but they offer only Muay Thai and BJJ. I thought there would be a class titled MMA (striking with takedown I thought). Thoughts?

[@Sbv-25]

Perhaps this older upload might answer your question kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJC8l2R-jdV-nassi=WX15YrnAH9kowulf

[@GypsyNomad912]

Eats another clothesline TO THE FACE😂😂🤣.. Coach..look..ITS BULLSHIT

[@judosailor610]

Re Demonstrations: the wealth of available combat sports today has rendered the martial arts "demonstration" (even ones that are well done) useless at best and usually comical. You wanna show me your art is effective? Don't show me a demonstration. Show me you or your students (or at least practitioners of that martial art as a whole) success in combat sports. Because that shows me it really works.

[@andymax1]

Works for what? Combat Sports show Martial Arts in a sports context only, as if that is the only virtue a Martial Art can offer. Not every Martial Artist is training for sport and a demonstration only serves to show what an art has to offer, if a person wanting to study a Martial Art sees a Martial Art in a demo, I would assume it needs to tick the boxes for what the customer is looking for, maybe Aikido looks cool enough and that may be what they want, just an activity that looks cool. As far as me showing you what I do actually works, I can't, I can say I don't ever recall losing a sports combat competition, it would also be intellectually disingenuous of me to claim the effectiveness of my Traditional Martial Art is down to it practice as I have trained a hell of a lot of sports Martial Arts. Does my TMA work in a sports context, I would say probably but it is not the most time efficient way to get good at a particular sport, but some of the qualities developed are the ones you need, a strong body and a iron will, good technique and an understanding of the principles, these are all very transferable.

[@judosailor610]

@@andymax1 Works in a fight, obviously. And you're right, some people don't train martial arts to learn how to fight. And I don't have any issue with that. If you're doing it because it's fun or it looks cool or it's historical in someway that you appreciate, have at it! But we are talking about "Martial" arts. We're talking about the art of fighting. I would hazard to guess that for most people they train martial arts because they want to be able to handle themselves in a fight. And sports combat... mind you I'm not talking about point karate or something like that, but full contact striking or full power Grappling or a combination of both… Is fighting. And if it works in that, then it works in a fight.

[@andymax1]

@@judosailor610 true enough that a majority are looking how to defend themselves, I don’t think that was me though I’m doing it for exercise, but in saying that I find the best arts for that are the sports ones, one day perhaps when I am retired aikido or Tai Chi will be a good choice to maintain mobility and movement.

[@judosailor610]

@@andymax1 Sounds good man. Cheers!

[@foolishyish]

"When did Ramsey become such a jerk?" - some interenet rando lol

[@BorninPurple]

Me commenting on this video, reacting to Ramsey reacting to Tony Jefferies? Who directed this? Christopher Nolan?

[@uatiger1]

I love Aikido. I do it naturally with my 4 year old son on the bed and he laughs when he falls down and then I tickle. Thats the best usecase for Aikido I guess. 😂😂

[@danfors1333]

I'd be more impressed of Seagal if he's the one doing the acrobatic cartwheels and evasive flips. I don't think I've seen him do anything acrobatic ever, even in his prime, hundreds of pounds ago.

[@Sbv-25]

What other aikido techniques do you know that you like?

[@RamseyDewey]

Morihei Ueshiba didn’t invent wrist locks, you know.

[@cranerigging3604]

Poor old Steve .... You can't make that stuff up !

[@user-bf2ob3ph7d]

Segal got his but kicked by a camera man that was in his 50s in the 90s😂😂😂

[@punasurf4697]

I agree with everything here, but I have to add this story. My dojo put on a demo for Philippine Day at the local university. One of our very skilled black belt/ black sash student did end up with a bloody face when he missed a counter to an olisi (stick) swung at his head. Some demos are more real than others.

[@andymax1]

That is why I am absolutely amazed when I see demos with live swords, that shit can go wrong.

[@jmalps9148]

Hey Ramsey, I have a question. How come when we compare different martial arts it’s ONLY with how well they spar for example, karate vs mma. Why don’t we also include how well someone handles themselves if they are attacked such as a shove, grab, knife attack etc? As important as being able to spar is, a lot of self defense does not start with two people squaring up. I feel if we included more tests we would get a more complete idea of effective different styles may or may not be. (Where I train at, we will have a group of 5 people. One is in the middle and the other four take turns randomly attacking and we have to use what we know to defend ourselves. We also train fighting more than one opponent at the same time

[@RamseyDewey]

You are just comparing one type of sparring to a different type of sparring. Sparring for a combat sport is it the same as competing in a combat sport, and sparring with the intent to prepare for real world violence is so far removed from real world violence it’s almost laughable. Now, you tell me, why do YOU compare different martial arts ONLY with how well they spar?

[@jmalps9148]

@@RamseyDewey I really don’t and I’m sorry if it came off this way, I find value in tons of martial arts. I primarily study kenpo but have some experience with goju ryu. I’m hoping to get into boxing and bjj this year. I’m impressed with the kicking abilities of taekwondo and find wing chun fascinating. However, for personal reasons and not living in the greatest of areas I put an emphasis on self defense with my training more so than the other benefits you get from martial arts. I just think that some martial arts get short changed when in comparison videos, not yours just other ones I’ve seeen online. I think people are too eager to discredit an art just because the value of it might not be as straightforward as others. I believe that some martial arts you have to actively think about to get the full benefits of them.

[@mattirealm]

Steven Seagal clearly studied the "George Dillman" school of "nonsense-fu" and applied that learning to his Aikido.....lol. Grown men and women NEVER fall down at the slightest touch in martial arts. This is hilarious!

[@Nightwalk444]

Aikido is great if you want to handicap yourself against the opponent!

[@user-ng9gd4vl9s]

That hat! You need a sheep dog, a flock of sheep and a cup of Yorkshire tea.

[@RamseyDewey]

It belonged to my granddad. He was a coal miner.

[@user-ng9gd4vl9s]

@@RamseyDewey downt maaahns