HotSoup wrote:He’s onto something. Takeda started with sumo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ4YWwupwiA) and ended up creating Daito-ryu. Ueshiba took it and distilled it into aikido. Doing aikido without the slightest hint at resistance created the mess the guys like Rokas have to deal with now (if they want to have something working, not just a fluffy ritualistic dance in which aikido has degraded).
C.J.W. wrote:So you can try to make Aikido functional by adding elements of grappling arts such as wrestling, Judo, Shuaijiao, and Sambo to the mix, but it won't be a true aiki art anymore.
vadaga wrote:AFA Daitoryu, I ran this by a friend from my Hokkaido days who trained fairly extensively with a Daito-ryu teacher as well as judo, shuai jiao and CMA striking arts... he pointed me to Tomiki style Aikido as an example of a style that has competition... but he said also that a decent wrestler would be better at takedowns...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQQlOEnSFI
vadaga wrote:AFA Daitoryu, I ran this by a friend from my Hokkaido days who trained fairly extensively with a Daito-ryu teacher as well as judo, shuai jiao and CMA striking arts... he pointed me to Tomiki style Aikido as an example of a style that has competition... but he said also that a decent wrestler would be better at takedowns...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQQlOEnSFI
Rokas wrote:While in aikido, most techniques had a lot of distance between the attacker and aikidoka.... In reality, during most aikido techniques, the attacker has plenty of space to resist, turn out or escape.
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