Why do YOU think Aikido Sucks??

**cualltaigh** · Posted On: 1/21/2013 1:13am

Originally Posted by Vieux Normand

"Inkio" is excellent defense against anyone trying to grab your tattoo gun.

I wonder if there is a reverse inkio if they try to grab your tramp stamp?

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 1/21/2013 9:08am

Originally Posted by cualltaigh

I wonder if there is a reverse inkio if they try to grab your tramp stamp?

It's called uma no ketsu kyo.

**cualltaigh** · Posted On: 1/21/2013 10:03pm

Originally Posted by Vieux Normand

It's called uma no ketsu kyo.

Forgive my lack of japanese language skills, but the best transliteration I could get of that was "leave my horse hole undefiled"?

**Raving&Drooling** · Posted On: 1/22/2013 4:29pm

I got "villain from donkey asshole" but whatever. There are a few common themes in there, the gist is gotten.

**BKR** · Posted On: 1/22/2013 6:47pm

Originally Posted by Rock Ape

There's a time in any fight when it's appropriate to meet force with force and there are times when it is just as appropriate to avoid such force. The problem with most if not 99.999% of aikidoka, is that they fail to grasp this concept because it's not included in their day to day training. Thus they see force on force as wrong. Despite the fact that many martial traditions have a greater bias toward this methodology.

I studied both Iwama and Aikikai versions of Aikido to middle senior dan grade. I never had issues with what I was studying (but then by background isn't run of the mill) so I see where aikido fails as a means of fighting.

For some reason Aikido seems to attract a larger number of budo-snobs, perhaps that's to do with the whole ideological thing of Ueshiba - who really knows. What I do know for sure, is that it isn't the physical discipline's fault - it's people who are the weak part of the equitation. IE their attitudes.

there are still quite a few people who believe that "ju" (sorry no kanji) is the main principle/strategy in Judo, e.g., no force on force, always yielding. In a metaphorical sense, I can see the point. Most suffering is caused by resistance to the presence, but in a physical sense, resistance/non resistance have to be used as appropriate in the given situation, which is an extension/application of Seiryoku Zenyo.

Many of the aikidoka I've interacted with didn't get that either.

Ben

**twan55** · Posted On: 1/22/2013 10:59pm

Aikido looks kind of fun. I think I'll try it.

i mean first I'll do Judo for the next twenty years- but then after that I think Aikido might be cool to do. But I might change my mind.

**Sri Hanuman** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 8:17pm

Logical fallacy.
The "ju" will always be a middle aged Semetic banker.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 11:13pm

Originally Posted by Sri Hanuman

Logical fallacy.
The "ju" will always be a middle aged Semetic banker.

Add two more "ju" and you could have ten gentle heebs.

**Monsieur** · Posted On: 1/24/2013 12:35am

I did aikido for about a year when I was fourteen. My sensei was a gay, chubby middleaged man who also worked as a food critic and wrote books about astrology. He spoke in a deep, melodic voice when he preached the gospel of the aiki to us, his disciples. His hands were warm and his skin soft, yet his grip was firm and unyielding.

I shall never forget him, nor his teachings.

**Savage Randy** · Posted On: 1/24/2013 4:06am

Originally Posted by Monsieur

I did aikido for about a year when I was fourteen. My sensei was a gay, chubby middleaged man who also worked as a food critic and wrote books about astrology. He spoke in a deep, melodic voice when he preached the gospel of the aiki to us, his disciples. His hands were warm and his skin soft, yet his grip was firm and unyielding.

I shall never forget him, nor his teachings.

I somehow picture him to look like a buff Freddie Mercury.