Ahh, Aikido demonstrations!
I have seen stuff like that, along with almost every one of Steven Seagalās film masterpieces. I love it when a bar full of rowdy, racist oil rig workers are destroyed with Aikido by a main character with no character flaws whatsoever.
Master of clothslining 14 year olds! 
Whatās Up, Doc?
Better luck next time, buddy.
I still donāt know how they came to a percentage of undiagnosed autists.
Itās like publishing a study that states the percentage of closeted homos.
Iāve done several searches in the past for good Seagal stuff.
Hereās another one of my faves.
What is wrong with this man?
Canāt surpass the master from a wheelchair!
Also, holy smokes! He throat chopped the bajeezus out of that kid!
If I recall correctly he chomped on that carrot during a visit Lukashenkoās farm.
No idea. I asked my wife to find it again, but she couldnāt. She did clairify that it was undiagnosed as children, then diagnosed as as adults.
I thought 2cats would give him a run for his money, but the formula clearly puts Castoli in the lead.
Iāll still see you coming.
Thatās what theyāve all thought.
I donāt know, as Iāve never learned much about whatās wrong with peopleās brains, or mine for that matter. There is historical, artistic, and intrinsic value in Aikido thatās perfectly valid. There is even martial value in Aikido, if you live in a Samurai society where people are often carrying swords and might try to kill you with them. It is my understanding that all of the movements were developed as unarmed responses to men coming at you with samurai swords. Aikido actually makes a lot more sense that way, since youāre talking about a last-ditch kind of backstop to your main form of training, which wouldāve been sword combat. Like adding calf raises to your squat.
Aikido attracts some odd ducks, for sure. My BJJ coach, who is a legit badass martial artist and athlete, actually studied Aikido to a fairly high level before BJJ. Some of the stuff actually works, but only with the foundation of combat grappling gained from old-school BJJ. Steven Seagal is a legit Aikido master, but thatās still probably less dangerous than a ballet master. The ballet guy is probably a killer athlete and more dangerous.
What āworksā in Aikido is mostly wrist locks that arenāt commonly trained in BJJ but show up when youāve got someone controlled through grappling. It is more of a novelty, because if you can get someone into a position where your Japanese-named wrist lock works, you could also fuck them up a lot worse with with strikes, a major joint attack or a choke.
The free-flowing stuff on the feet is just a form of dance today, purely fictional from a hand-to-hand combat perspective. Judo is a lot less fluid, but still pretty dope to watch, and it works. Judo was developed as hand-to-hand, where Aikido was developed as hand-to-sword. Context is important.
Aikido looks great on film to most people who donāt know anything about martial arts, which was me for most of my life. I remember finding this Segal video a few years before I even began lifting, let alone grappling, and was totally convinced it was real.
Fast forward about 10 years, and I attended a combat grapplerās black belt test. Eli is a decisively deadly man with his bare hands, and he would kill a prime Steven Seagal in a fight 99 times out of 100. I even make a brief appearance in this video. The man narrating it has made many Eliās.
The videos are actually a pretty stunning contrast between delusion and reality.
Thanks for the informative post. The last video is great stuff. A big regret of mine is not learning a martial art. I hope to get my son involved with one sooner rather than later, and maybe my daughter.
As long as youāre not in a bad way, chances are youāve got an over 40 Judo or BJJ club nearby where you can gain actual competence without high levels of risk. āFlow rollingā is a good thing for overall fitness and flexibility, and it wonāt make you worse in a fight.
Iām just giving you my hot take in order to put the bug in your ear. The shortcut is to learn how to shoot people with a gun that you keep on your person.
Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) founded Aikido, he was born after feudal Japanās era came to an endā¦ The modernization of Japan which largely disgraced the samarai class began in 1868 after the Edo period came to end
Aikido took the idea of āunarmed fighting without a weapon against an armed opponentā and also added āand use the opponents energy to neutralize without significantly harming the opponentā
But even then when it came to actual wartime combat or one on one confrontation between an unarmed samarai and an armed one ju jitsu (unarmed grappling techniques) was vastly preferred over aikido
Though iāll admit if you look at aikido from the perspective of someone running at you the training makes a little bit more sense. I remember when I was 21 in Europe and I was big into training martial arts my cousin was telling me about her aikido training and I remember getting her to apply one of her wrists-locks only for me to break out of it in like a fraction of a second
The problem I have with martial arts (knowing Iām more self conscious about this aspect) is the injuriesā¦ If you are a smaller guy (Iām 5ā7 and Iām now 160lbs but used to be 185 at my heaviest) like I am even without a genetic predisposition for injury you can get seriously hurtā¦ I saw all sorts of injuries when I used to trainā¦ almost everyone had some degree of tendonitis/bursitis, and then there were more serious injuries like shoulder dislocations, kneecap subluxations, torn ligaments, broken bones, separated AC jointā¦ I can go on
Iāve had others tell me āwell you get hurt living, my friend did his ACL tripping on the sidewalkā and thereās truth to that but thereās a middle ground. Am I more likely to get hurt lifting weights and getting stronger in a controlled manner or am I more likely to get hurt playing Rugby where we are all charging into one another?
Same goes with martial artsā¦ you are undoubtedly more likely to rack up injuries from full contact martial arts from repetitive wear and tearā¦ as well as āboom and snapā injuriesā¦ and for some, particularly younger guys that injury risk is worth itā¦
These were young people getting hurtā¦ and generally the big guys and/or those with just very resilient frames didnāt get hurt, but martial arts kind of āweeds outā the weakā¦ and thatās something many arenāt willing to acknowledge
There is absolutely a scale in terms of physicalityā¦ and some people are just more prone to injury for reasons we do not understand
Even people who ātrain smartāā¦ Lotās of people donāt make it to a black belt in BJJ for instance because they wind up with a list of issues that make them unable to continue training
Remember issues like lower back pain etc are unbelievably common esp as we get olderā¦ and as much as exercise can help, high impact activities like BJJ or Judo has a high risk of causing injury.
If you canāt afford to potentially wind up needing shoulder or knee surgery, or you have a pre-existing joint issue that could be exacerbated I often wonder whether learning something like BJJ is worth it
If I could go back in time I would have avoided the years of martial arts training I put in as the end result was preventable damage
Steven Segal is a narcissist through and through
Sean Connery (for James Bond films) wanted to learn flashy techniques for the big-screen and enlisted Segal to help himā¦ Segal while drilling a technique broke Sean Conneries wrist
Screams āIām the big man, Iāll find untrained men to practice full force on while I disguise it as drillingā. I def encountered people who clearly had issues try go 100% during drilling or sparringā¦ you know the person who says ālets go lightā or the BJJ equivalent of āflow rollingā only it appears theyāre trying to actually knock your block offā¦ or the BJJ equivalent theyāre like ripping subs etc
These people often donāt last long at gyms, but what if youāre actually a high ranking member who is respected? Steven Segal got to a high rank and was never weeded outā¦ Martial arts can attract a fairly diverse crowdā¦ but it also attracts people with issues
The fancy high kicks in TKD make more sense also when one understands that it was supposed to be an art developed for knocking people off horses.
Kung Fu makes more sense also, when one realizes that years of proper training under super secret conditions with super ancient masters sporting flowing white beards would allow one to take on bulletsā¦
Well that makes sense. Thanks.
Yes, lol, they fed him a carrot and I always thought they did it as a symbolic gesture, since he became their pet.
Iāve done that too, he has some great stuff out there. The story of him getting choked out by Gene Lebell is a classic, as is the one of him talking shit about JCVD, and when Van Damme challenged him to a fight in some party he ran home.
This one made me laugh out loud, and not in the figurative sense.
Candace Owens is objectively not well educated and itās clear she doesnāt know much. But I hear people say sheās smart. Iāll concede that education and knowledge donāt equal intelligence, though they are good indicators, but how can anyone listen to her talk science and think sheās smart? Her go to is to say, ājust Google it,ā but if you do that, it debunks what sheās saying. And who knew the Van Allen belt was a secret? Itās not like Van Allen himself published his studies in 1958. Sheās a dummy who got famous for repeating social commentary said by others before her. And letās not get started on her Hitler comments which showed just how little she knows about the subject.
Never actually paid any attention to her.
Steven Seagal is a marshal arts expert, a sheriff, and now he is playing major league baseball. Good for him!