I guess it won't be too long before an Aikidoka enters a Mixed Martial Arts competition then.
Not.
Aikido works in a dojo when you have willing training partners that know how to offer you their wrists and then roll about. I have seen demonstrations in books of the old master. The students he demonstrated on were all stood where he told them to stand, and they all came at him one at a time.
I have seen Bruce Lee defeat multiple attackers on film. But he admitted that it was all choreographed.
Wake up and look at REAL evidence, not propoganda.
And what if he was in a war and killed people? So was my old Grandad. That proves nothing.
Lastly, I recently attended a course on Close Quarter Combat. It is a system taught to British Commandos in WW2. The instructor had me scratching my head when the first technique he had us do was a wrist lock. After a while everyone said that they "had" the technique and were confident they could apply it. Then he asked us to do it again, but told our training partners to really resist. Guess what, none of us could aply it. He went onto make the point that we do too many techniques in Martial Arts were we unwittingly LET our opponents apply a technique, when the thing would have no chance working for real.
We spent the rest of the seminar learning strikes to the neck, eyes, jaw, groin and knees. Now they really DO work.
I know I'm ranting on, and I don't mean any offence. But I get frustrated that people want to believe all these tales of mystery so much that they spend thousands on learning how to get their arses kicked in a real fight. And worse than that, there are those being paid thousands to do the teaching.
Fighting is not rocket science, nor is it mysterious.
K.I.S.S.
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