Check out my other martial arts vlogs here: • Martial Arts Vlog #1 - The hardest martial arts training of my life - th-cam.com/video/7o3S6c3oH7k/w-d-xo.html • Martial Arts Vlog #2 - Why I nearly quit BJJ - th-cam.com/video/KOtiyYOYeFs/w-d-xo.html Or watch the full functional aikido seminar here: th-cam.com/video/lgPSZiueobw/w-d-xo.html
dude train here (rondori daily) and ask for police training.. ask for actual technique use in the field... you already know bs moves & scams th-cam.com/video/9U631Sll9mc/w-d-xo.html
louie sy one single man could beat 3 people is not just use a plain martial art skill. It takes mental, strategy and martial art. And one more thing that we need most, luck.
As Kwonkicker said, your experience with Aikido is exactly what makes you the best person to teach it. You can contextualize and keep perspective on why things are being done the way they're being done, and make corrections/adjustments for people who want a more "functional" approach to their Aikido. Excellent video.
@@MartialArtsJourney somewhere on YT there is a blond haired ninjutsu teacher in Japan who actually puts on armor and shows how a technique originally came from defeating a samurai, but for modern clothing the angle would have to be changed
I can't thank you enough for helping me go through the "awakening" about my past style. I trained Krav Maga for 11 years, and I feel like our stories are very similar. Over time I realized how Krav is more "theory based" than "reality based" and now I am starting fresh with Kudo (also known as Japanese MMA). Everything you said about how you feel is literally what I am going through right now and I got to feel like I am understood. Thank you for that! - Also, please give us your insight on Kudo someday!
Thanks for sharing. I am glad you found a better way in your journey. I heard great things about Kudo and I'm planning to try it out and document my experience, hopefully soon
@@jryanp Different rules and how matches are refereed (I think groundfighting can last for 15 seconds before both fighters are made to stand), and they fight with gis and helmets.
How is it theory when those guys in israel are actually putting to work the material they train in? You got a taste of watered down krav just like there's watered down jujitsu/Jiujitsu, judo, Karate, etc. or you're just another ¶d¶0+ like Rokas.
Thank you Alex! While it is not my main goal to make my aikido functional, I have quite a few plans to keep digging into this direction to see what will come out of it :)
Okay, I'm just gonna say it. Consider teaching aikido to for use in stunt work. It can look super cool on screen. You don't have to worry about the ethical issue of teaching functional combat, you can still do something that was a huge part of your life that seems to bring you joy. Just a thought.
Aikido is definitely great for movies. I'm friends with a person who added some Aikido moves to Keanu Reeve's John Wick. We spoke with him that it would be cool sometimes to look at how I could do some Aikido on the movie set :) I don't think it would be my main focus though
@@MartialArtsJourney You replied!!! ❤ You are hilarious. Embrace it! You were sold a bag of bs about Aikido by a nobody teacher in nowhere-ville and then, rather than own your lack of discernment, you blamed the art. And now - da-tada-da! - you're going to fix it!!! Wins my vote for Poster Child for Millennial Narcissism. But ya gotta love you suck at something and get paid for sucking. mad respect. 👋 Glad too you seem to have discovered weights or at least cutback on exposure to soy lattes, microplastics and atrazine. Good luck on your "Journey" but, based on your movement, you may struggle functionalizing a toothbrush.
@@MartialArtsJourney and you like deleting replies too. 🤣 Post your 3 dan exam for us all. What was the tune you danced to? Tango or Rumba? Hilarious.☺ just be honest. then your "journey" can be legit. you're taking the crap aikido you learned and trying to see what you can make of it by studying other martial arts (superficially). You're hardly O-Sensei as someone said in your comments and you "Liked" it. LOL. Come on man. What a con. Sort yourself out while there's still time!
More than anything, I am happy for your being able to meet those who want to be open minded and love progressing martial arts. I know ton of people who are ironically stuck in their ways when it comes to martial arts.
I'm glad that you've come to terms with your feelings on your Aikido training. Even if you don't want to teach your craft full time, what you do know should continue to be explored while you are on your martial arts journey. So, on that note, best of luck to you and your endeavors, my friend!
You’re a great sensei, seeing you coach it’s like you’re in your element and have a passion for it. And hopefully you’ll make a fine BJJ coach one day when you reach brown. No beat yourself over it you’re still young and you already a wealth of experience behind you.
Sankyo and kotegaishi do work pretty well in free standing grappling scenarios. Many years ago I also left aikido and managed to demo a sankyo and lock my BJJ skeptic friend during standing pummeling. His eyes opened a bit there to see that most if not all martial arts which have a subjective global popularity, have something functional to offer. Takes aliveness in training though.
In case anyone is interested in the more descriptive name for the "sankyo" technique, it is tenkai kotehineri. Sankyo just means 3rd technique, which is what Aikikai teaches: a numbered system. In Tomiki or Shodokan Aikido we use descriptive names for everything - so that for all techniques, the name tells you what the technique is, and not just some number that you were supposed to memorize and associate with a particular technique. Kotehineri is the opposite wrist/forearm (kote) rotation from kotegaeshi. Where in gaeshi you rotate the hand/wrist/forearm "outward" (hold arms out in front with thumbs up, now rotate your thumbs out and down), with hineri you rotate the hand/wrist/forearm "inward" (hold arms out in front with thumbs up, now rotate your thumbs in and down). Gaeshi and hineri - the two wrist/forearm rotations. Good aikidoka will lock up not only your wrist but also your elbow and your shoulder and control your center with either. The tenkai adds a body turn/rotation, so in Rokas' example he steps through, under the uke's arm, and then turns/rotates (tenkai) and once he rotates he holds the kotehineri lock. Careful! Kotehineri is very painful for the uninitiated, even more so than kotegaeshi. Practice slowly and softly at first - with tori being protective of uke's wrist and elbow. (Relax the hineri grip a bit during the tenkai, for beginners.)
@@rhmayer1good explanation of the theory of that technique, I'm fimillar with some aikido techniques due to my background in jujutsu. I agree with you once the elbow wrist and shoulder are immobilised it's a very painfull experience and the joints can be easly damaged
Would be awesome to see footage of the actual class. Great job. Since you know the weaknesses of aikido you can actually improve on it's functionality. I remember when I did Kenpo Karate they did aikijutsu short techniques which were combined to actual Kenpo movements to make it more effective. It was fun and functional. Go for it Rokas.
Even if you dont teach full time it was cool to see your story come to a full circle from student to teacher to realizing the flaws and then teaching again address and confront those flaws to find solutions. Verrrry admirable!
Ah cool rokas say that seminar with Jesse was fun and hopefully you can modify aikido in the future as it definitely needs to be readapted to modern attacks
I've been saying that for a long time to this guy, bro. Join me in having this guy fix his aikido and stop being a combat sports cage fighter. You can't do cage fighting at 50 years old.
@@jashardwallington hapkido is different from aikido in every single way possible. Aikido has differences in how its taught, example, sensei goza shioda his aikido is rough not like the main style. Aslo hapkido is Korean and has its influence from its native arts. The founder of hapkido did study daito-ryu aikijujutsu, it's where aikido Derived from. Even hapkido has its differences in its approach for example Combat hapkido is not like traditional hapkido at all
This perfect! Teaching BUNKAI in a practical manner will help apply traditional arts and techniques in a modern manner. Roka has gone through a long journey to realize one can apply aikido in modern and practical ways that can lead to submissions. Awesome
Hi Rokas , last night at Japanese Jiujitsu we were working on defence against lapel grabs using those same wrist locks. The wrist locks were always done after a quick sharp distraction strike. When it came time to drill the techniques being grabbed by the lapel I tend to disregard the wrist locks and go straight in for a good knee strike or elbow then go straight into Osoto or O uchigari throws instead as that’s what my muscle memory reverts back to.
I just love the fact that you realized what you was teaching was not really useful or practical in the self defense world and instead of trashing it all, you searched for answers and evolved to find where I can be practical. Its amazon how a little resistance can go along ways. Martial Arts these days are constantly devolving while MMA is evolving, because MMA has full resistance a good amount of time, while Traditional Martial artist often just find them selves dancing. Keep up the good work. I love to see to see Traditional Martial Arts come back alive.
@@MartialArtsJourney You´re welcome. I want to use this opportunity to ask you a question: Some years ago, I applied for some tryout classes in Aikido. For various reasons I did not continue, but I find one experience very interesting: The day after my second class, I had a discussion and a girl at my uni. She criticized one of my comments quite bluntly, and we could actually have quite a bit of friction once in a while (as I would often be defensive or criticizing/offensive back, and there would be a back and forth). This day, though, I found myself, spontaneously, responding in a very "Aikido" way - it was as if I, metaphorically speaking, just stepped out of the way and let her attack/energy just slide on by. I can´t remember that exact words of what I replied but that was the "energy/effect" of my response. It could have been something as simple as: "Ok". I remember to this day the look of suprise in her face., She SO much expected me to come back at her, that it almost seemed she was a bit perplexed and at loss for more words. It felt SO liberating on my part. THIS is the reason I wanted to learn Aikido in the first place. NOT so much for physical self defence, but to live and communicate more peacefully with the word and people in my life (not reacting with fighting, although still maintaining my integrity and without being submissive or a pushover). This leads up to my question: Do you have any experience that Aikido lead to help you like this "off the mat" in the general pace of your life? If so, I´d be very interested to hear, and perhaps you could direct me to some videos if you talked about it before (or make one on the topic). Thank you. .:)
Great video, been waiting for this! Glad to see the Aikido come back... but on a side note, as a "content creator" myself, I gotta say, that is some slick editing!
1. do not get struck (stay outside, inside, back-side) 2. take the opponent's balance and never let them regain it - there are many ways 3. apply the appropriate technique.
@@MartialArtsJourney What's in my reply that you take umbrage with? Controlling distance? Don't get hit? Taking his balance? Move fast with full intention? These are just some of the basic fundamentals but I'll see what I can do to fulfill your suggestion. Unfortunately when I was younger, I got in fights and I effectively used the strategies. Now I'm 70 and haven't practiced in a dojo for 25 years. If in the course of things, I find a willing partner who knows how to protect himself and we have the proper safety equipment, I'll see what I can do. As an aside: Do you think Cud D'Amato would have done well in the ring? What about John Danaher? Yes it is easier said than done but that does not mean that what is said lacks veracity.
The thing is, Akido only works if you make it work. Many ex-soldiers, cops and security learned Akido and it has worked for them for many years. And it worked for the man who created it. Understand, Akido sensei’s in Japan know Judo or JuJutsu. Not just Akido. Plus there is AkiJutsu which is where Akido came from. But if you wanna make Akido work, you have to understand other martial arts. And for me, I know Karate (Kyokushin and Goju-Ryu), Judo and Japanese JuJutsu. I dabbled in other things but still main those three arts. Mostly JuJutsu now-a-days. Understand, it’s no different than BJJ based on evidence we have of documents of Japanese JuJutsu from old books and drawings of how the techniques work. They did live sparring, no gi and gi training, and they trained hard for combat as the style was intended for during the Samurai days. BJJ is more sport like compared to JJJ. JJJ is to finish. Not saying BJJ can’t be the same way, but in all honesty, JJJ and BJJ are the same. They are both JuJutsu. Neither offer anything new. Ground game, JJJ has it.
Your experience is interesting. My own experience is telling me that the problem with aikido isn't so much its techniques or principles but the way we usually train there.
This is the video i needed and i didnt even know it ❤️ Keep walking your journey, this is amazing 💪 Also, if you can ever go train with heinz and experience his stuff live, or doing tomiki aikido, or hatenkai, to see personally what others have done to make their aikido work... But i understand that you have other objectives right now that you are working on ❤️
Thanks Gingercore! I'm really glad you liked the video. Meeting with Chris Heinz is definitely on my plans. So is doing Tomiki aikido and hopefully hatenkai too one day. The States are out of reach now for me because of travel restrictions, but I am looking to go to UK to do tomiki aikido and full contact aikido weapon sparring sooner than later
So glad you had this experience. Aikido gets a bad reputation for several things, but frankly there is no art that will teach you blending and redirection as well as Aikido. People from many different styles would benefit from spending time practicing Aikido. The way I see it, you just learned it first before you had context to add it to. It is extremely impressive that you've made the effort afterward to understand how and where it can apply. Congratulations on all of these successes. I wish you a continuing fruitful journey. All my best.
Rokas, you are doing more good to the Aikido community, by applying those techniques in a more active way. It's sad that most of the Aikido people are very conservative and unwilling to change, but I hope that in time, they will escape from their own box. Big ups to you, man.
It's starting to scare me how our cycles look alike! 😅 I've been playing on my mind with the idea of getting involved again and teaching Aikido since I realized a small window of opportunity. But not only I'm hesitant due to obvious reasons, we still have covid to worry about here. I also do think that I could share Aikido under a different light, no lies or the old BS... On another note, nice video! It's great to have this kind of content from you again! Thank you, Rokas!
Thanks Wagner. I think many of our journeys are more similar than we think. It's just that with few people sharing it honestly, we feel like we are the only ones going through it. It's great though that we can meet in our journey, inspire and support each other in it :) In my journey I realized so far that things may take longer than I sometimes wish and many bumps on the road come up, but as long as I gradually move forward, awesome things happen
@@MartialArtsJourney for sure! Your sharing definitely has a great impact on my perspective - specially about Aikido, but not only - along those years! Thanks again! Happy to see good things unfolding for you! Be well!
With 10 years of Aikido experience, and some Kung Fu, Karate, and Taekwondo, I have some thoughts. I see Aikido as a set of principles and the philosophy that springs forth. There is no Aikido "techniques". Technique is born from the attack. O' Sensei could defend himself and protect the attacker, even when that person was highly trained. This is the pinnacle of martial arts. Can you imagine stepping in the octagon and accomplishing this? Aikidoists suck at combat arts and pressure testing because we've hopped on the top of the mountain. We start dancing like the master, and expect the results without building the rest of the mountain, our journey, and our building of the foundation of this mountain. Training in Aikido doesn't mean I'm doing Aikido. There are moments of it. Where the attack is real and it is magic. Keep the good videos coming. Cheers!
Awesome. Thanks! Like anyting the right tool at the right time. I've never studied Aikido but it appears to be an awesome array of techniques to be applied at the appropriate moments or to assist in controlling various situations.
Sparring isn't the e all and end all. Sparring is important, but you can't train pre-emptive striking in sparring, and nobody questions the fact that they work. Similarly, you can't really train joint locks in sparring, because the dynamic is just wrong - I've pulled off dozens of joint locks in live situations, but I think I've only done it once or twice, once the opportunity to use them has gone and we have ended up trading blows.
Wow, another awesome video Rokas! I love your more recent contents as it is more positive and mutually respectful when collaborating with other martial artists, esp. of TMA background. I love the concept of “functional aikido.” It’s a very new and accurate description of the next step of its evolution. I’d love to see you develop more of this as you are in a unique position to do so. Just don’t call it “Rokas Aikido” like what the Brazilian family/community did with calling it “Gracie Ju-Jitsu” or even “Brazilian Ju-Jitsu” as personal or national ego and arrogance gets embedded in the name forever. Make yours a selfless system that is more universal and embraces the whole world. The name reveals a lot about the true identity and inner motivation. As a hard stylist, I’m always looking for ways to find balance with softer styles as I age. Keep up the great work! 👍
4:14 I can hear O' Sensei pulling his hair in his grave: "oh no, you totally didn't get my teaching, boy! Almost no one got it!" :-) But, he truly is impressed by the honesty of your journey. :-)
True. Ueshiba was known to say this. In particular, he stated that students don’t understand in and yo / yin and yang. There are specific methodologies for using these Taoist principles to develop aiki and other flavors of martial internal skills (such as those in Chinese internal martial arts), but Ueshiba was not capable or willing to effectively transmit that knowledge, though some of his students, such as Koichi Tohei, used Ueshiba as an inspiration and springboard then put in the work to develop such skills. A key question to ask and investigate is: if we examine the personal training regimens of Ueshiba and Tohei (for which there is some video evidence online), what do they have in common with each other and other internal martial arts?
You should attend one of lenny sly sensei's sessions- that's pretty (brutal) functional Aikido. You mention often how ineffective Aikido is- but BJJ/ MMA also comes with a ton of rules that truly limit it on the street- although I think you hit the problem with Aikido on the head here- it's not the techniques by themselves- it's the way they are practiced- with compliant UKE and zero resistance- Watch Rogue Warriors TV- I think it might lend you some Aikido respect. Another thing that seems to be missing in modern Aikido practice is Atemi- or real striking- it wasn't missing with O'Sensei...
Great video, I did aikido for 8 years and have also moved to BJJ, boxing, and judo. I am still trying to figure out what if any use it actually has. I think of the friendship I made, some really nice people it wasnt a waste
Hi Tom. Aikido definitely has good things to offer such as community and cultural experience. You can also salvage some of its techniques later on practicing other martial arts. But as a self defense/fighting method it doesn't teach you much, I believe
@@MartialArtsJourney I agree, I may try and go tonight after boxing. The only reason I stopped was because of the distance but then I started other things and realized aikido isnt practical. I think a little of a friend I trained with in aikido unfortunately he died of covid. I see him now as an inspiration he was a real mixed martial artist, he was a wrestler, had a black belt in Japanese jui jitsu, 4th dan in aikido. I believed he could make aikido work and he developed his own style which mixed all these together
@@andrewa9064 yeah it's a nice philosophy but as Rokus has demonstrated it doesnt work typically with live resistance. I trained tonight and nothing we did would work in real life with a trained fighter or even me with my basic boxing. We did shomen uchi and the unrealistic punch they usually do. If I was seriously sparring with someone there is no way I would attack like that. If you dont attack realistically how can you be sure it will work if you actually need it for self defence. But I'll probably go back because I enjoyed the company, they're a nice group of people but I'm not going for martial arts training when I go to BJJ, Judo or do a muay thai class that's self defence. The training in aikido BJJ, boxing, judo gives me confidence and is probably why I have managed to avoid fights in real life
@@tomsheppard378 - Rokas doesn't understand anything of fighting. It's not his cup of coffee and he needs to come to terms on that instead of trying to be something he's clearly not.
I never understood, why you broke so hard with aikido. From my point of view (I did Judo for a long time and tried some other stuff out (also Aikido)), I never saw Aikido as "functional" in terms of real fighting (sport or self defence). I saw it as a traditional way of movement, a philosophy. Compareable to Tai Chi. Or even Yoga. Something with a lot of principles which are still valid for "more functional" martial arts. Training in Aikido helped me thinking differently about my judo and making it better. Also in my Ju-Jutsu training was a lot of stuff I've seen in aikido. But with a different training. In my understanding Aikido was always something more hollistic thing for people who didn't want to fight or pressure test. Something you could still du when you are 70ty. Something to help you with your body coordination, flexibility and so on. I think everybody who thought, that Aikido was effective for fighting was esoteric delusional. But this is not how I understood it purpose. I still see a richness for a modern martial artist in Aikido in it's historic traditions and very flowing moving patrens and more insight of the principle of of winning through giving. I don't see the benefit in making Aikido "effective". There is already effective stuff. But showing the effectivness of aikido principles in martial arts technics is gold. Have you tried training ab bit in Judo?
I like the idea of the functional Aikido. I've seen other people try and include Aikido moves in standard combat outside of the Aikido spectrum and work out well. It is still recommended to approach it as a complement and not as a complete fighting method.
I am really looking forward to seeing your form of Aikido once it is fully reconstructed. I was once a partitioner of Aikido before I had my knee permanently injured in the military. And in my humble opinion, I personally see "Knowing Aikido" can be a huge plus for experienced fighters, but it can also be devastating if a person knows only Aikido and considers themselves a fighter...
I'm glad you had a good time in Poland, hope you enjoyed stay in this country :) I didn't really knew such a amazing place was in Poland :O if i would know you were doing a aikido class there, I would definitely go.
Poland was very nice. Warsaw was beautiful. Sorry for not letting everyone know that I'll be around. Next time I'll announce my trip early and invite everyone who's up for it to have a coffee together
How are you? I'm so glad that this is happening to you, I'm also a practicioner of different martial arts like: Capoeira, BJJ, Wing Chun, Aikido. Every one with their good and their things hard to applied in real situations but yes it is possible. Thanks for take your time to do this. Hugs
What is " Functional aikido"?...if you are ignoring aikido entrance foot works, it is not aikido any more. All the locking techinques such as 1,2,3kyo can be found most of arts already anyway.
It serves no purpose to try to figure out what if this and what if that. You are who you are and know what you know. Go with it and give what you can give, period. I always thought aikido was useless as a self defense thing, but you are showing what I believe even more strongly, which is that everything that you do in life contributes to who you are. Somethings of course, are more valuable than others. The knowledge that you got from learning aikido with passion, like you did, is contributing greatly to your ability to help others to decide on the direction of their martial arts journey in their lives. You definitely have advanced abilities with wrist locking, that is so valuable to subduing an attacker, mixed with some BJJ for ground fighting and a pinch of karate, or kick boxing, and you have a fairly complete system. Good for you for being well on your way.
I started training Aikido a few months ago but Covid has made a comeback. I plan on going back in a few weeks. I also was training American Kenpo before the Pandemic. I could swear some Kenpo techniques were borrowed from Aikido and JuJutsu. Aikido sensei said my Kenpo stlye Kote Gaeshi was wrong. I really enjoy all the detail that goes into Aikido.
I loved learning akido as a teen, I learned a lot about redirection, Arm, hand control, how to fall without getting hurt and other things that have taken my joy for wrestling and bjj.
I spent 17 years of training in aïkido. I stopped for personal reasons and practiced Muay Thaï and a little MMA. When I see your journey, I feel like it is the journey every aïkidoka should take. Like what it is said : the man of science will read every book, and still think he doesn't know. A man of fait will read one and think he knows everything. Being doubtful is what we need to be. What a shame when I hear you were left by your students and betrayed by your former sensei. Your path is the one of the wise and I wish you to reach your goal. Sincerely from Belgium. JC
@Jessica💋 Sweety Hotgirl - Vlogs I like Rokus because of his thoughtful and introspective personality, but really a fighting style should only be created by someone with a high level fighting history. Like a successful UFC MMA fighter.
I get why so many people are tempted to ask if you regret not studying a more functional martial art but they never ask that to something like fencers. Sure, they have competitions where you can compete but it's not going to be "functional" in real life. It's a sport and as long as you enjoy doing it, it's completely fine to want to keep it up. If you meet great people and have fun along the way, while also getting in better shape, so what if you can't actually fight people effectively. Neither can people who practice archery but that doesn't make archery less fun.
I went back to my Japanese Jiu Jitsu club for the first time in 2 years. In the past I had realised while it was more functional than Aikido, it wasn't as good as BJJ. We did some pressure tested techniques. The governing body has changed the syllabus to put more emphasis on functional techniques, more pressure testing, more realistic attacks which I was happy to see
@@MartialArtsJourney the quote is roughly like that- from the latest Trilogy. Yoda’s force ghost tells Luke after he burns the temple in the planet where he was exiled in. I think it’s Ep8.
I did Japanese Jujitsu for years started my own school and then got smashed in bjj... after taking bjj for a few years I have come to see more utility in my Japanese jujitsu system, there are unique concepts in it, and bjj is helping me make practical applications of the kata driven martial art I took for years. If anyone can glean unique functional applications from aikido its going to be someone like you.
Hey i did Judo and after sometime started Jujutsu and i could use what i learned there on Judo, i'd say that it is mostly sparring (randori) what it needs, similar to aikido
Good content. I have trained and taught Muay Thai and aiki jujutsu and a live drill was a big part of aiki jujutsu training. A lot of locks and throws are also done after an atemi(strike). My shihan always said that learning aikido is like learning the highest form of akijujutsu without learning the fundamentals first. Many principles like atemi, nage, otoshi that use force to compromise the opponent’s structure are just not taught in aikido. If you watch some old videos of morihei ueahiba, you can actually see the use of force in some of his techniques when there was a resistance from Uke.
Our aikido dojo makes us do cage fights (not tournaments but in our dojo) its more like aikijitsu in this point (a type of aikido that is a bit more fatal)
Even now knowing that Aikido is pretty much useless in real world scenario, I am very glad I learnt it. I started Aikido at a very young age. At the time, I was a shy, timid and scared little boy. I was afraid of jumping from a 7-inch ledge. As Aikido is a rly chill, none aggressive and one of the safest martial arts to learn, that craven 7 year old me didn’t hate it. As I trained more and more, i became apart of an amazing community and slowly become more and more brave. This led me to my martial arts journey which I think only Aikido could do. This is why I am forever grateful to have learnt Aikido for all the risks I now take.
you take the way of Aikido bunkai, and for that, I salute you. and if that does not exist, you have invented it... or better, discovered it. in his book, "budo", the founder invites us to forget the techniques to really learn them, and that is just what you are doing, your aikido is more aikido than many others together. although kihon is still necessary in early stages of learning. but always remembering, specially as uke, that kihon is just for studying the principles behind the techniques, so we have to resist as much as we can and not roll over at first push, always acting by makoto principle. keep going.
Hmmmm Rokas, you are an explorer, and that's something I will also consider with Aikido. I am thinking first of applying my ikkyo nikiyo sankyo etc in closed guard bottom, :-)
Good ideas JSM. So far I found kotegaeshi to be most useful in standup grappling. I have a feeling it may also be applied on the ground. I also pull off sankyo, also in stand up. It also works great as an escape from back control. I'm sure other techniques may be valuable too. I am yet to discover their applications though
@@MartialArtsJourney interesting, I guess you have drilled kotegaeshi from a standing grappling point, I imagine maybe from a failed arm drag attempt ? it's very fast up there, not like in our traditional aikido practice lol, I like your idea of escaping from the back with sankyo, it never came to me, but the placement is so accurate, thanks Rokas, keep it up, you are the man :-)
@@MartialArtsJourney There is a video daniele bolelli did with stephen of grapplearts. showing aikido moves that work in BJJ, Daniele is a black belt in Aikido and a 4 stripe brown in BJJ, some stuff works surprisingly well.
wow. this is so good. especially when you have did BJJ, you kinda understand aikido better and I saw a couple of helpful tips in grip fighting. it will be helpful in GI and no Gi situation! if the covid situation has eased, would love to attend your aikido seminar in Singapore!
My Dad's synthesized version of Aikido which included elements of Boxing, Aiki-Jiujitsu, Karate and Kickboxing definitely helped me adapt to MMA despite my dad being a Traditional style Martial Artist.
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• Martial Arts Vlog #1 - The hardest martial arts training of my life - th-cam.com/video/7o3S6c3oH7k/w-d-xo.html
• Martial Arts Vlog #2 - Why I nearly quit BJJ - th-cam.com/video/KOtiyYOYeFs/w-d-xo.html
Or watch the full functional aikido seminar here: th-cam.com/video/lgPSZiueobw/w-d-xo.html
Dude your production quality is amazing! What camera do you use?
dude train here (rondori daily) and ask for police training.. ask for actual technique use in the field... you already know bs moves & scams th-cam.com/video/9U631Sll9mc/w-d-xo.html
if you could answer my question how should 1 man defend against 3 then you would know my belt... the defender in the video i sent i will fail
louie sy one single man could beat 3 people is not just use a plain martial art skill. It takes mental, strategy and martial art. And one more thing that we need most, luck.
@@ngocehgayabebas2118 spoken with wisdom.. keep on teaching.. this world needs lots of it
As Kwonkicker said, your experience with Aikido is exactly what makes you the best person to teach it. You can contextualize and keep perspective on why things are being done the way they're being done, and make corrections/adjustments for people who want a more "functional" approach to their Aikido. Excellent video.
You are the best aikido teacher in the world.
Whoa! That's a big statement. I really appreciate you saying it
Basically yes, because he actually admitted the traditional form isn't functional in combat and he had actually learned from other arts
@@MartialArtsJourney somewhere on YT there is a blond haired ninjutsu teacher in Japan who actually puts on armor and shows how a technique originally came from defeating a samurai, but for modern clothing the angle would have to be changed
@@jryanp find me a link of this I'd be interested in seeing
You obviously have yet to see Nishio Sensei.
I can't thank you enough for helping me go through the "awakening" about my past style. I trained Krav Maga for 11 years, and I feel like our stories are very similar. Over time I realized how Krav is more "theory based" than "reality based" and now I am starting fresh with Kudo (also known as Japanese MMA). Everything you said about how you feel is literally what I am going through right now and I got to feel like I am understood. Thank you for that!
- Also, please give us your insight on Kudo someday!
Thanks for sharing. I am glad you found a better way in your journey. I heard great things about Kudo and I'm planning to try it out and document my experience, hopefully soon
How does kudo differ if at all from other MMA practice?
@@jryanp Different rules and how matches are refereed (I think groundfighting can last for 15 seconds before both fighters are made to stand), and they fight with gis and helmets.
How is it theory when those guys in israel are actually putting to work the material they train in? You got a taste of watered down krav just like there's watered down jujitsu/Jiujitsu, judo, Karate, etc. or you're just another ¶d¶0+ like Rokas.
I'm glad to know that you enjoyed getting back to teaching aikido. It is something that you dedicated so much of your time after all.
Great to see you teaching Aikido Rokas. Hope you do more stuff like this.
Thank you Alex! While it is not my main goal to make my aikido functional, I have quite a few plans to keep digging into this direction to see what will come out of it :)
I can't trust a teacher who's never failed. It either means you ain't trying hard enough or your blind to your own failings.
I love your channel.
Okay, I'm just gonna say it. Consider teaching aikido to for use in stunt work. It can look super cool on screen. You don't have to worry about the ethical issue of teaching functional combat, you can still do something that was a huge part of your life that seems to bring you joy. Just a thought.
Aikido is definitely great for movies. I'm friends with a person who added some Aikido moves to Keanu Reeve's John Wick. We spoke with him that it would be cool sometimes to look at how I could do some Aikido on the movie set :) I don't think it would be my main focus though
@@MartialArtsJourney Are just do Wushu, Wushu is the ultimate dance acrobatic form of martial art expression from China.
this guy is hilarious. love him.
I love arrogant aikido people
@@MartialArtsJourney You replied!!! ❤ You are hilarious. Embrace it! You were sold a bag of bs about Aikido by a nobody teacher in nowhere-ville and then, rather than own your lack of discernment, you blamed the art. And now - da-tada-da! - you're going to fix it!!! Wins my vote for Poster Child for Millennial Narcissism. But ya gotta love you suck at something and get paid for sucking. mad respect. 👋 Glad too you seem to have discovered weights or at least cutback on exposure to soy lattes, microplastics and atrazine. Good luck on your "Journey" but, based on your movement, you may struggle functionalizing a toothbrush.
@@MartialArtsJourney and you like deleting replies too. 🤣 Post your 3 dan exam for us all. What was the tune you danced to? Tango or Rumba? Hilarious.☺ just be honest. then your "journey" can be legit. you're taking the crap aikido you learned and trying to see what you can make of it by studying other martial arts (superficially). You're hardly O-Sensei as someone said in your comments and you "Liked" it. LOL. Come on man. What a con. Sort yourself out while there's still time!
I'm so happy for the things that are happening in your life right now , Rokas! Always wish you the best! ✊🏽🌸
Thank you Mari 🙏
More than anything, I am happy for your being able to meet those who want to be open minded and love progressing martial arts.
I know ton of people who are ironically stuck in their ways when it comes to martial arts.
I'm glad that you've come to terms with your feelings on your Aikido training. Even if you don't want to teach your craft full time, what you do know should continue to be explored while you are on your martial arts journey. So, on that note, best of luck to you and your endeavors, my friend!
You’re a great sensei, seeing you coach it’s like you’re in your element and have a passion for it. And hopefully you’ll make a fine BJJ coach one day when you reach brown. No beat yourself over it you’re still young and you already a wealth of experience behind you.
Congrati¡ulations dear Rocas. I'll be expecting for your new Aikido practices.
Sankyo and kotegaishi do work pretty well in free standing grappling scenarios.
Many years ago I also left aikido and managed to demo a sankyo and lock my BJJ skeptic friend during standing pummeling.
His eyes opened a bit there to see that most if not all martial arts which have a subjective global popularity, have something functional to offer.
Takes aliveness in training though.
Yups they do work very well in grappling I've used them in my line of work as a security officer
In case anyone is interested in the more descriptive name for the "sankyo" technique, it is tenkai kotehineri. Sankyo just means 3rd technique, which is what Aikikai teaches: a numbered system. In Tomiki or Shodokan Aikido we use descriptive names for everything - so that for all techniques, the name tells you what the technique is, and not just some number that you were supposed to memorize and associate with a particular technique. Kotehineri is the opposite wrist/forearm (kote) rotation from kotegaeshi. Where in gaeshi you rotate the hand/wrist/forearm "outward" (hold arms out in front with thumbs up, now rotate your thumbs out and down), with hineri you rotate the hand/wrist/forearm "inward" (hold arms out in front with thumbs up, now rotate your thumbs in and down). Gaeshi and hineri - the two wrist/forearm rotations. Good aikidoka will lock up not only your wrist but also your elbow and your shoulder and control your center with either. The tenkai adds a body turn/rotation, so in Rokas' example he steps through, under the uke's arm, and then turns/rotates (tenkai) and once he rotates he holds the kotehineri lock. Careful! Kotehineri is very painful for the uninitiated, even more so than kotegaeshi. Practice slowly and softly at first - with tori being protective of uke's wrist and elbow. (Relax the hineri grip a bit during the tenkai, for beginners.)
@@rhmayer1good explanation of the theory of that technique, I'm fimillar with some aikido techniques due to my background in jujutsu. I agree with you once the elbow wrist and shoulder are immobilised it's a very painfull experience and the joints can be easly damaged
Theres people like me that are genuinely interested in various MA like aikido. Dont stop learning and teaching if you love it. Goodluck
Would be awesome to see footage of the actual class. Great job. Since you know the weaknesses of aikido you can actually improve on it's functionality. I remember when I did Kenpo Karate they did aikijutsu short techniques which were combined to actual Kenpo movements to make it more effective. It was fun and functional. Go for it Rokas.
Thanks. The full footage of the seminar is available in the description :)
Even if you dont teach full time it was cool to see your story come to a full circle from student to teacher to realizing the flaws and then teaching again address and confront those flaws to find solutions. Verrrry admirable!
Thanks Bryce
Ah cool rokas say that seminar with Jesse was fun and hopefully you can modify aikido in the future as it definitely needs to be readapted to modern attacks
I've been saying that for a long time to this guy, bro. Join me in having this guy fix his aikido and stop being a combat sports cage fighter. You can't do cage fighting at 50 years old.
@@J3unG I agree with you brother 100 %hopefully he will bring aikido to its next stage of evolution
It already has hapkido is a thing
@@jashardwallington hapkido is different from aikido in every single way possible. Aikido has differences in how its taught, example, sensei goza shioda his aikido is rough not like the main style. Aslo hapkido is Korean and has its influence from its native arts. The founder of hapkido did study daito-ryu aikijujutsu, it's where aikido Derived from. Even hapkido has its differences in its approach for example Combat hapkido is not like traditional hapkido at all
live drilling in aikido? 2021 baby finally. been following this channel and the journey is amazing man. Inspirational.
Thanks :)
Fantastic content and it's nice to see a fellow Aikidoka evolve into something more. Keep training and keep growing! OSU
This perfect! Teaching BUNKAI in a practical manner will help apply traditional arts and techniques in a modern manner. Roka has gone through a long journey to realize one can apply aikido in modern and practical ways that can lead to submissions. Awesome
Hi Rokas , last night at Japanese Jiujitsu we were working on defence against lapel grabs using those same wrist locks. The wrist locks were always done after a quick sharp distraction strike.
When it came time to drill the techniques being grabbed by the lapel I tend to disregard the wrist locks and go straight in for a good knee strike or elbow then go straight into Osoto or O uchigari throws instead as that’s what my muscle memory reverts back to.
I just love the fact that you realized what you was teaching was not really useful or practical in the self defense world and instead of trashing it all, you searched for answers and evolved to find where I can be practical. Its amazon how a little resistance can go along ways. Martial Arts these days are constantly devolving while MMA is evolving, because MMA has full resistance a good amount of time, while Traditional Martial artist often just find them selves dancing. Keep up the good work. I love to see to see Traditional Martial Arts come back alive.
I hope this can help you!
Thanks!
You need to find the Aikido Flo guys and see how they use it.
The gathering was at an absolutely gorgeous setting. I think Poland deserves more international visitors.
your journey deserved to be turn into a book
Thanks Minh! Funny you mentioned it. I am writing a book right now about my martial arts journey all the way until the second Aikido vs MMA sparring 😊
@@MartialArtsJourney wish your channel had more views👍👍👍👍
One step at a time 😊
My Friend, this is awesome!! I truely believe you should focus your journey on developing and teaching practical Aikido.
Dude, be proud of your unique journey. You have a very fantastic perspective to teach from.
Thanks Jacob
@@MartialArtsJourney You´re welcome.
I want to use this opportunity to ask you a question:
Some years ago, I applied for some tryout classes in Aikido. For various reasons I did not continue, but I find one experience very interesting:
The day after my second class, I had a discussion and a girl at my uni. She criticized one of my comments quite bluntly, and we could actually have quite a bit of friction once in a while (as I would often be defensive or criticizing/offensive back, and there would be a back and forth). This day, though, I found myself, spontaneously, responding in a very "Aikido" way - it was as if I, metaphorically speaking, just stepped out of the way and let her attack/energy just slide on by. I can´t remember that exact words of what I replied but that was the "energy/effect" of my response. It could have been something as simple as: "Ok". I remember to this day the look of suprise in her face., She SO much expected me to come back at her, that it almost seemed she was a bit perplexed and at loss for more words. It felt SO liberating on my part.
THIS is the reason I wanted to learn Aikido in the first place. NOT so much for physical self defence, but to live and communicate more peacefully with the word and people in my life (not reacting with fighting, although still maintaining my integrity and without being submissive or a pushover).
This leads up to my question: Do you have any experience that Aikido lead to help you like this "off the mat" in the general pace of your life? If so, I´d be very interested to hear, and perhaps you could direct me to some videos if you talked about it before (or make one on the topic).
Thank you. .:)
Great video, been waiting for this! Glad to see the Aikido come back... but on a side note, as a "content creator" myself, I gotta say, that is some slick editing!
Thank you David! Really glad to hear it. I've been working my ass off lately to make the videos better... 😅
1. do not get struck (stay outside, inside, back-side) 2. take the opponent's balance and never let them regain it - there are many ways 3. apply the appropriate technique.
I think it would be best if you would send me a video example of doing it yourself against a fully resisting, experienced sparring partner
@@MartialArtsJourney What's in my reply that you take umbrage with? Controlling distance? Don't get hit? Taking his balance? Move fast with full intention? These are just some of the basic fundamentals but I'll see what I can do to fulfill your suggestion. Unfortunately when I was younger, I got in fights and I effectively used the strategies. Now I'm 70 and haven't practiced in a dojo for 25 years. If in the course of things, I find a willing partner who knows how to protect himself and we have the proper safety equipment, I'll see what I can do. As an aside: Do you think Cud D'Amato would have done well in the ring? What about John Danaher? Yes it is easier said than done but that does not mean that what is said lacks veracity.
I like the fact you are re-exploring aikido and in a sense reinventing the wheel
I'm glad you got there, I knew you would. This journey was not about Aikido, it was about you, If you dont realise that you should , ad no doubt will
The thing is, Akido only works if you make it work. Many ex-soldiers, cops and security learned Akido and it has worked for them for many years. And it worked for the man who created it. Understand, Akido sensei’s in Japan know Judo or JuJutsu. Not just Akido. Plus there is AkiJutsu which is where Akido came from. But if you wanna make Akido work, you have to understand other martial arts. And for me, I know Karate (Kyokushin and Goju-Ryu), Judo and Japanese JuJutsu. I dabbled in other things but still main those three arts. Mostly JuJutsu now-a-days. Understand, it’s no different than BJJ based on evidence we have of documents of Japanese JuJutsu from old books and drawings of how the techniques work. They did live sparring, no gi and gi training, and they trained hard for combat as the style was intended for during the Samurai days. BJJ is more sport like compared to JJJ. JJJ is to finish. Not saying BJJ can’t be the same way, but in all honesty, JJJ and BJJ are the same. They are both JuJutsu. Neither offer anything new. Ground game, JJJ has it.
Your experience is interesting.
My own experience is telling me that the problem with aikido isn't so much its techniques or principles but the way we usually train there.
You and Jesse are amazing together.
This is the video i needed and i didnt even know it ❤️
Keep walking your journey, this is amazing 💪
Also, if you can ever go train with heinz and experience his stuff live, or doing tomiki aikido, or hatenkai, to see personally what others have done to make their aikido work... But i understand that you have other objectives right now that you are working on ❤️
Thanks Gingercore! I'm really glad you liked the video. Meeting with Chris Heinz is definitely on my plans. So is doing Tomiki aikido and hopefully hatenkai too one day. The States are out of reach now for me because of travel restrictions, but I am looking to go to UK to do tomiki aikido and full contact aikido weapon sparring sooner than later
@@MartialArtsJourney i wish you good luck and success on all that, it will be very interesting to see!
So glad you had this experience. Aikido gets a bad reputation for several things, but frankly there is no art that will teach you blending and redirection as well as Aikido. People from many different styles would benefit from spending time practicing Aikido. The way I see it, you just learned it first before you had context to add it to. It is extremely impressive that you've made the effort afterward to understand how and where it can apply. Congratulations on all of these successes. I wish you a continuing fruitful journey. All my best.
Always evolving and expanding ‼️
God I love Aikido, always good going back to ur roots brother❤ Never forget...
Always great to see your your journey rokas!
Thank you Ruben! Many more journeys are about to come :)
Rokas, you are doing more good to the Aikido community, by applying those techniques in a more active way. It's sad that most of the Aikido people are very conservative and unwilling to change, but I hope that in time, they will escape from their own box. Big ups to you, man.
Thanks Tayslay
I am an engineer and people often talk about Functional Programming. Now you talk about Functional Aikido!
It's starting to scare me how our cycles look alike! 😅 I've been playing on my mind with the idea of getting involved again and teaching Aikido since I realized a small window of opportunity. But not only I'm hesitant due to obvious reasons, we still have covid to worry about here. I also do think that I could share Aikido under a different light, no lies or the old BS...
On another note, nice video! It's great to have this kind of content from you again! Thank you, Rokas!
Thanks Wagner. I think many of our journeys are more similar than we think. It's just that with few people sharing it honestly, we feel like we are the only ones going through it. It's great though that we can meet in our journey, inspire and support each other in it :) In my journey I realized so far that things may take longer than I sometimes wish and many bumps on the road come up, but as long as I gradually move forward, awesome things happen
@@MartialArtsJourney for sure! Your sharing definitely has a great impact on my perspective - specially about Aikido, but not only - along those years! Thanks again! Happy to see good things unfolding for you! Be well!
I'm very happy to see this the first wrist lock you demonstrated is one I was taught as a child and it has served me well
Thank you for your service towards Martial Arts.
With 10 years of Aikido experience, and some Kung Fu, Karate, and Taekwondo, I have some thoughts. I see Aikido as a set of principles and the philosophy that springs forth. There is no Aikido "techniques". Technique is born from the attack. O' Sensei could defend himself and protect the attacker, even when that person was highly trained. This is the pinnacle of martial arts. Can you imagine stepping in the octagon and accomplishing this? Aikidoists suck at combat arts and pressure testing because we've hopped on the top of the mountain. We start dancing like the master, and expect the results without building the rest of the mountain, our journey, and our building of the foundation of this mountain. Training in Aikido doesn't mean I'm doing Aikido. There are moments of it. Where the attack is real and it is magic. Keep the good videos coming. Cheers!
Awesome. Thanks! Like anyting the right tool at the right time. I've never studied Aikido but it appears to be an awesome array of techniques to be applied at the appropriate moments or to assist in controlling various situations.
Very happy for you! Things are looking up...
Thanks Walt. I'm doing my best to keep it positive and keep moving forward these days :)
Interesting! I would be very much interested in seeing you sparring and applying these techniques!
You have just guessed the next video!
@@MartialArtsJourney nice!
Sparring isn't the e all and end all.
Sparring is important, but you can't train pre-emptive striking in sparring, and nobody questions the fact that they work.
Similarly, you can't really train joint locks in sparring, because the dynamic is just wrong - I've pulled off dozens of joint locks in live situations, but I think I've only done it once or twice, once the opportunity to use them has gone and we have ended up trading blows.
Nice going Rokas - good to see the Aikido voodoo in you still stirring :-)
Awesome, good luck on the journey
I think there's probably room for Aikido to blend with the grip fighting we seen in judo and ju-jutsu. Hope this is not just a one off experiment.
Planning to continue it
Wow, another awesome video Rokas! I love your more recent contents as it is more positive and mutually respectful when collaborating with other martial artists, esp. of TMA background.
I love the concept of “functional aikido.” It’s a very new and accurate description of the next step of its evolution. I’d love to see you develop more of this as you are in a unique position to do so.
Just don’t call it “Rokas Aikido” like what the Brazilian family/community did with calling it “Gracie Ju-Jitsu” or even “Brazilian Ju-Jitsu” as personal or national ego and arrogance gets embedded in the name forever. Make yours a selfless system that is more universal and embraces the whole world. The name reveals a lot about the true identity and inner motivation.
As a hard stylist, I’m always looking for ways to find balance with softer styles as I age.
Keep up the great work! 👍
Best vídeo in months i was worried about you
Great and awesome job sir. The years of exploring in martial arts made you grow more skillful and excellent.
Keep going and God bless
Thanks Johen
I thought those two words in the same sentence were an oxymoron until I saw this. You managed to pull it out. Nice!
Haha. Thanks Anthony!
4:14 I can hear O' Sensei pulling his hair in his grave: "oh no, you totally didn't get my teaching, boy! Almost no one got it!" :-) But, he truly is impressed by the honesty of your journey. :-)
Haha, thank you Tomas
True. Ueshiba was known to say this. In particular, he stated that students don’t understand in and yo / yin and yang. There are specific methodologies for using these Taoist principles to develop aiki and other flavors of martial internal skills (such as those in Chinese internal martial arts), but Ueshiba was not capable or willing to effectively transmit that knowledge, though some of his students, such as Koichi Tohei, used Ueshiba as an inspiration and springboard then put in the work to develop such skills. A key question to ask and investigate is: if we examine the personal training regimens of Ueshiba and Tohei (for which there is some video evidence online), what do they have in common with each other and other internal martial arts?
@@varamaur9567 oh thank you man for further info and confirmation! I didn't know! :))
@@MartialArtsJourney you are welcome :)
@@tomastelensky-vlog8723 - I appreciate your open-mindedness about this. If you further investigate it, please share your thoughts.
You should attend one of lenny sly sensei's sessions- that's pretty (brutal) functional Aikido. You mention often how ineffective Aikido is- but BJJ/ MMA also comes with a ton of rules that truly limit it on the street- although I think you hit the problem with Aikido on the head here- it's not the techniques by themselves- it's the way they are practiced- with compliant UKE and zero resistance- Watch Rogue Warriors TV- I think it might lend you some Aikido respect. Another thing that seems to be missing in modern Aikido practice is Atemi- or real striking- it wasn't missing with O'Sensei...
Great job ,owning all your martial arts actions and mistakes and making yourself and others evolve!! Thats powerful stuff!!!!
Great video, I did aikido for 8 years and have also moved to BJJ, boxing, and judo. I am still trying to figure out what if any use it actually has. I think of the friendship I made, some really nice people it wasnt a waste
Hi Tom. Aikido definitely has good things to offer such as community and cultural experience. You can also salvage some of its techniques later on practicing other martial arts. But as a self defense/fighting method it doesn't teach you much, I believe
@@MartialArtsJourney I agree, I may try and go tonight after boxing. The only reason I stopped was because of the distance but then I started other things and realized aikido isnt practical. I think a little of a friend I trained with in aikido unfortunately he died of covid. I see him now as an inspiration he was a real mixed martial artist, he was a wrestler, had a black belt in Japanese jui jitsu, 4th dan in aikido. I believed he could make aikido work and he developed his own style which mixed all these together
Aikido's whole philosophy is avoid seriously hurting a belligerent person. A submission, a punch, to a throw can seriously injure or kill someone
@@andrewa9064 yeah it's a nice philosophy but as Rokus has demonstrated it doesnt work typically with live resistance. I trained tonight and nothing we did would work in real life with a trained fighter or even me with my basic boxing. We did shomen uchi and the unrealistic punch they usually do. If I was seriously sparring with someone there is no way I would attack like that. If you dont attack realistically how can you be sure it will work if you actually need it for self defence. But I'll probably go back because I enjoyed the company, they're a nice group of people but I'm not going for martial arts training when I go to BJJ, Judo or do a muay thai class that's self defence. The training in aikido BJJ, boxing, judo gives me confidence and is probably why I have managed to avoid fights in real life
@@tomsheppard378 - Rokas doesn't understand anything of fighting. It's not his cup of coffee and he needs to come to terms on that instead of trying to be something he's clearly not.
I never understood, why you broke so hard with aikido.
From my point of view (I did Judo for a long time and tried some other stuff out (also Aikido)), I never saw Aikido as "functional" in terms of real fighting (sport or self defence).
I saw it as a traditional way of movement, a philosophy. Compareable to Tai Chi. Or even Yoga.
Something with a lot of principles which are still valid for "more functional" martial arts.
Training in Aikido helped me thinking differently about my judo and making it better. Also in my Ju-Jutsu training was a lot of stuff I've seen in aikido. But with a different training.
In my understanding Aikido was always something more hollistic thing for people who didn't want to fight or pressure test. Something you could still du when you are 70ty.
Something to help you with your body coordination, flexibility and so on.
I think everybody who thought, that Aikido was effective for fighting was esoteric delusional. But this is not how I understood it purpose.
I still see a richness for a modern martial artist in Aikido in it's historic traditions and very flowing moving patrens and more insight of the principle of of winning through giving.
I don't see the benefit in making Aikido "effective". There is already effective stuff. But showing the effectivness of aikido principles in martial arts technics is gold.
Have you tried training ab bit in Judo?
Truly enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting.
Thank you Bernie. Glad to hear that
I like the idea of the functional Aikido. I've seen other people try and include Aikido moves in standard combat outside of the Aikido spectrum and work out well. It is still recommended to approach it as a complement and not as a complete fighting method.
Honestly, You should have a dojo to share your different experiences.
Your journey is amazing and you DO have things to teach.
I am really looking forward to seeing your form of Aikido once it is fully reconstructed.
I was once a partitioner of Aikido before I had my knee permanently injured in the military. And in my humble opinion, I personally see "Knowing Aikido" can be a huge plus for experienced fighters, but it can also be devastating if a person knows only Aikido and considers themselves a fighter...
I'm glad you had a good time in Poland, hope you enjoyed stay in this country :) I didn't really knew such a amazing place was in Poland :O if i would know you were doing a aikido class there, I would definitely go.
Poland was very nice. Warsaw was beautiful. Sorry for not letting everyone know that I'll be around. Next time I'll announce my trip early and invite everyone who's up for it to have a coffee together
Really enjoyed watching this. Thank you 🙏
Thanks Lazarus Grey. Glad to hear it
How are you? I'm so glad that this is happening to you, I'm also a practicioner of different martial arts like: Capoeira, BJJ, Wing Chun, Aikido. Every one with their good and their things hard to applied in real situations but yes it is possible. Thanks for take your time to do this. Hugs
What is " Functional aikido"?...if you are ignoring aikido entrance foot works, it is not aikido any more. All the locking techinques such as 1,2,3kyo can be found most of arts already anyway.
Part of the solution is knowing the problem keep up the good work
Thanks Kenny
If you're ever teaching a class in my general area, I'll definitely check it out.
It serves no purpose to try to figure out what if this and what if that. You are who you are and know what you know. Go with it and give what you can give, period.
I always thought aikido was useless as a self defense thing, but you are showing what I believe even more strongly, which is that everything that you do in life contributes to who you are. Somethings of course, are more valuable than others. The knowledge that you got from learning aikido with passion, like you did, is contributing greatly to your ability to help others to decide on the direction of their martial arts journey in their lives. You definitely have advanced abilities with wrist locking, that is so valuable to subduing an attacker, mixed with some BJJ for ground fighting and a pinch of karate, or kick boxing, and you have a fairly complete system. Good for you for being well on your way.
just started aikido, really got motivated by you sensei
Thank you, glad to hear it! Wish you all the best in your aikido journey
@@MartialArtsJourney still watching your technique tutorials, hope you’d still be doing it with improved bjj techniques in the new dojo
I started training Aikido a few months ago but Covid has made a comeback. I plan on going back in a few weeks. I also was training American Kenpo before the Pandemic. I could swear some Kenpo techniques were borrowed from Aikido and JuJutsu. Aikido sensei said my Kenpo stlye Kote Gaeshi was wrong. I really enjoy all the detail that goes into Aikido.
I loved learning akido as a teen, I learned a lot about redirection, Arm, hand control, how to fall without getting hurt and other things that have taken my joy for wrestling and bjj.
I spent 17 years of training in aïkido. I stopped for personal reasons and practiced Muay Thaï and a little MMA. When I see your journey, I feel like it is the journey every aïkidoka should take.
Like what it is said : the man of science will read every book, and still think he doesn't know. A man of fait will read one and think he knows everything. Being doubtful is what we need to be.
What a shame when I hear you were left by your students and betrayed by your former sensei.
Your path is the one of the wise and I wish you to reach your goal.
Sincerely from Belgium.
JC
Aikido by O' Rokas.
Haha 😂
@Jessica💋 Sweety Hotgirl - Vlogs I like Rokus because of his thoughtful and introspective personality, but really a fighting style should only be created by someone with a high level fighting history. Like a successful UFC MMA fighter.
Life is a journey you can never stop learning
I get why so many people are tempted to ask if you regret not studying a more functional martial art but they never ask that to something like fencers. Sure, they have competitions where you can compete but it's not going to be "functional" in real life. It's a sport and as long as you enjoy doing it, it's completely fine to want to keep it up. If you meet great people and have fun along the way, while also getting in better shape, so what if you can't actually fight people effectively. Neither can people who practice archery but that doesn't make archery less fun.
I went back to my Japanese Jiu Jitsu club for the first time in 2 years. In the past I had realised while it was more functional than Aikido, it wasn't as good as BJJ. We did some pressure tested techniques. The governing body has changed the syllabus to put more emphasis on functional techniques, more pressure testing, more realistic attacks which I was happy to see
Pass down what you have learnt. Especially, what you have learnt from the failures. Not only the successes. - Yoda. Quite wise words.
Is it from one of the cartoons? I don't remember the quote from a movie. Good quote though
@@MartialArtsJourney the quote is roughly like that- from the latest Trilogy. Yoda’s force ghost tells Luke after he burns the temple in the planet where he was exiled in. I think it’s Ep8.
I did Japanese Jujitsu for years started my own school and then got smashed in bjj... after taking bjj for a few years I have come to see more utility in my Japanese jujitsu system, there are unique concepts in it, and bjj is helping me make practical applications of the kata driven martial art I took for years. If anyone can glean unique functional applications from aikido its going to be someone like you.
Hey i did Judo and after sometime started Jujutsu and i could use what i learned there on Judo, i'd say that it is mostly sparring (randori) what it needs, similar to aikido
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Ye for sure 👍 practice against resistance. I found the same
Amazing video. I like where you are going. Keep it up.
Good content. I have trained and taught Muay Thai and aiki jujutsu and a live drill was a big part of aiki jujutsu training. A lot of locks and throws are also done after an atemi(strike). My shihan always said that learning aikido is like learning the highest form of akijujutsu without learning the fundamentals first. Many principles like atemi, nage, otoshi that use force to compromise the opponent’s structure are just not taught in aikido. If you watch some old videos of morihei ueahiba, you can actually see the use of force in some of his techniques when there was a resistance from Uke.
I am enjoying your videos a lot. Thank you.
Thanks! Glad to hear it!
Glad you can incorporate what you learned into a more practical system.
Our aikido dojo makes us do cage fights (not tournaments but in our dojo) its more like aikijitsu in this point (a type of aikido that is a bit more fatal)
Even now knowing that Aikido is pretty much useless in real world scenario, I am very glad I learnt it. I started Aikido at a very young age. At the time, I was a shy, timid and scared little boy. I was afraid of jumping from a 7-inch ledge. As Aikido is a rly chill, none aggressive and one of the safest martial arts to learn, that craven 7 year old me didn’t hate it. As I trained more and more, i became apart of an amazing community and slowly become more and more brave. This led me to my martial arts journey which I think only Aikido could do. This is why I am forever grateful to have learnt Aikido for all the risks I now take.
you take the way of Aikido bunkai, and for that, I salute you. and if that does not exist, you have invented it... or better, discovered it.
in his book, "budo", the founder invites us to forget the techniques to really learn them, and that is just what you are doing, your aikido is more aikido than many others together.
although kihon is still necessary in early stages of learning. but always remembering, specially as uke, that kihon is just for studying the principles behind the techniques, so we have to resist as much as we can and not roll over at first push, always acting by makoto principle.
keep going.
Hmmmm Rokas, you are an explorer, and that's something I will also consider with Aikido. I am thinking first of applying my ikkyo nikiyo sankyo etc in closed guard bottom, :-)
Good ideas JSM. So far I found kotegaeshi to be most useful in standup grappling. I have a feeling it may also be applied on the ground. I also pull off sankyo, also in stand up. It also works great as an escape from back control. I'm sure other techniques may be valuable too. I am yet to discover their applications though
@@MartialArtsJourney interesting, I guess you have drilled kotegaeshi from a standing grappling point, I imagine maybe from a failed arm drag attempt ? it's very fast up there, not like in our traditional aikido practice lol, I like your idea of escaping from the back with sankyo, it never came to me, but the placement is so accurate, thanks Rokas, keep it up, you are the man :-)
@@MartialArtsJourney There is a video daniele bolelli did with stephen of grapplearts. showing aikido moves that work in BJJ, Daniele is a black belt in Aikido and a 4 stripe brown in BJJ, some stuff works surprisingly well.
Very nice sensie,nice to see you teaching again an aikido teknik rei
What a life you have led!
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This practical Aikido will be very useful in grip fighting.
Well done.
Yes dude, this is your path. Your work is to make it work and please diminish the self deprecation.
Coming full circle now, realizing how traditional martial arts can actually be functional.
wow. this is so good. especially when you have did BJJ, you kinda understand aikido better and I saw a couple of helpful tips in grip fighting. it will be helpful in GI and no Gi situation! if the covid situation has eased, would love to attend your aikido seminar in Singapore!
Thanks Chris. Who knows, maybe we will get to see each other again
My Dad's synthesized version of Aikido which included elements of Boxing, Aiki-Jiujitsu, Karate and Kickboxing definitely helped me adapt to MMA despite my dad being a Traditional style Martial Artist.
Really interesting thoughts. I like coming back to this video.