http://www.aikidojournal.com/download_video.php?id=79

Clip of Hakaru Mori Demonstrating Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu.

Disclaimer: It's a rehearsed demo, so if you want to see "full contact alive deadly free sparring", save your time for another thread.


What amazes me about DRAJJ is the "pile of corpses" these guys use to do in their demos.

Enjoy.

These kinds of demos are kind of silly. Why would 4 guys just run up and touch a person and stop?

I guess the elevator music adds to the authenticity of it all.

It always embarasses me to see someone succumb to a wristlock that they could shake just by letting go of the sleeve.

Once, just once, I would like to see a clip of Daito-ryu or Aikido, done the way it "used to be done", with striking, kicking, throwing and locking, a whirlwhind of techniques and dismembered bodies, is THAT too much to ask for ???

So if someone ever attacks my sleeve, that is how I am supposed to defend it.

whimpers manfully into his skirt after watching clip... why so slow, how long did it take them to learn how to form that wonderful four-ukes hanging free-form sculpture and why the hell did he let that guy get behind him in randori - I know it was a demo, but a single attacker doing a skip round the back is normally considered first target in radori.

The four-ukes-doing-the-broadway-dance was the best part.

so much for the initial disclaimer.

xango,
isn't this or something similar to it is taught @ your Judo school on Wednesday?

I did judo for quite some time, and I don´t remember anything like those moves they just demonstrated. Judokas usually do not count on the fact that uke will keep holding your sleeve no matter what do you do, they try to keep control of the other person´s balance and work on sweeps and hip throws.

As I remember, at arm´s length the opponent´s wrist and arm are only used to control his balance.

As I remember, at arm´s length the opponent´s wrist and arm are only used to control his balance agreed, and if it don't work either hit 'em and/or move in close so you can use the torso, neck or head

agreed, and if it don't work either hit 'em and/or move in close so you can use the torso, neck or head

Or the hip. Hip throws are cool AND they work. Unfortunately the aikido guys I saw didn´t do that, they did more or less what those skirt wearing belly dancers are doing on that clip.

Well that was intereging but shouldnt it be off-topic? This is a martial arts forum you know. :biggrin:

so much for the initial disclaimer.

xango,
isn't this or something similar to it is taught @ your Judo school on Wednesday?

Yes, actually. Sensei Moreau is a high-up in daito-ryu. I've never been to that class, so I can't comment on it. It has been described as fairly painful, but I don't know how alive the training is.

least appropriate demo music EVAR!

Or the hip. Hip throws are cool AND they work. Unfortunately the aikido guys I saw didn´t do that, they did more or less what those skirt wearing belly dancers are doing on that clip.

we practice koshi nage is our dojo (very similar to uki goshi or O goshi). There's nothing new in that clip that I haven't seen before. That one guy took pretty good ukemi on that sankyo throw though. Sankyo's a pretty nasty lock.