Even Aikidoka think Aikido is fake

**GRAB MY WRIST** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:05pm

Originally Posted by Coyote

...<snip>...Last, I would like to point out that this is Aikido Sucks Month, and making fun of Aikido/Aikidoka is part of what makes this time of year so special. It is nearly compulsory...<snip>...

So when is the MMA / Boxing / Wrestling suck month?

**Mr. Jones** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:14pm

Originally Posted by GRAB MY WRIST

So when is the MMA / Boxing / Wrestling suck month?

MMA isn't a style. I guess they could have a boxers are stupid month and BJJ and wrestling is gay month.

**BSONE** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:16pm

Originally Posted by Coyote

Last, I would like to point out that this is Aikido Sucks Month, and making fun of Aikido/Aikidoka is part of what makes this time of year so special. It is nearly compulsory. I may be a punk kid, and you may have been training more years than I have been alive, but I have never been to the hospital for fight related injuries, and have never been knocked out. Given time, I may be forced to visit the hospital or get knocked out as much as you, but until then, I am no match for your greatness.

I can tell you about aikido sucking. I've watched it for 15 years. Just this last weekend, I had a guy ask to test for san-dan after being away from the dojo for 10 years, and comeing back in february of this year. He has no stamina, and is as weak as a boy. Basically he wanted to test with three weeks notice and training.

**Mr. Jones** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:20pm

Originally Posted by BSONE

I can tell you about aikido sucking. I've watched it for 15 years. Just this last weekend, I had a guy ask to test for san-dan after being away from the dojo for 10 years, and comeing back in february of this year. He has no stamina, and is as weak as a boy. Basically he wanted to test with three weeks notice and training.

This type of response is innapropiate for bullshido.

**BSONE** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:24pm

Originally Posted by Mr. Jones

This type of response is innapropiate for bullshido.

Why? Say more.

**Mr. Jones** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:31pm

There are better examples of how someone sucks than failing a katas test. That guy is more idiotic than anything else.

**Doctor X** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:33pm

Lifts head over the battlements . . .

The easiest dan tests are for those who ask to test: they automatically fail.

One is invited to test based on one's skills.

. . . ducks back under. . . .

--J.D.

**BSONE** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:37pm

Originally Posted by Mr. Jones

There are better examples of how someone sucks than failing a katas test. That guy is more idiotic than anything else.

He didnt fail the test, he was told not to test.

**BSONE** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:40pm

Originally Posted by Doctor X

Lifts head over the battlements . . .

The easiest dan tests are for those who ask to test: they automatically fail.

One is invited to test based on one's skills.

. . . ducks back under. . . .

--J.D.

J.D. is this a quote or is this J.D.

**Doctor X** · Posted On: 3/13/2006 10:46pm

Cest moi! [He knows no French.--Ed.]

Anyways, I do not know how it works for Judo or, say, BJJ--perhaps someone can enlighten--but generally your teacher tells you that you should test, and then one goes before a board. To request a test is very unseemly.

Reality works differently, of course. Nevertheless, when practitioners claim that "rank means nothing!" but then ask for rank. . . .

--J.D.