Aikido & Judo
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It seems in the judoforum, there is a healthy debate going on about aikido and judo. To me, the above poster made some very good remark about the topic above. Personally, I tend to agree with the original poster of the reference material. What do you think? Do you agree? Some of the Judo people do seem quite interested in our little art (aikido). Wrt to this paragraph.. Quote:
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Good god...this kind of debate again.
If you subscribe to what Mike, Dan and others were talking about then maybe the reason why most people never are able to use Aikido successfully is because the "core" skills are just simply not being taught ;) |
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Having done both, I believe the main difference is that in Judo you have to force the kuzushi on a resistant opponent who plays by the same rules, while in aikido the kuzushi is mainly self-caused by the attacker if Nage's Tai Sabaki is well timed and executed.
However, when you take into consideration Judo Kata, especially the self-defense ones (forgot the names), the same principles apply for both arts. The reason why aikido does not have hip throws (apart from koshi nage) according to a high ranking shihan I met previously is that it adds an unnecessary element of risk to be toppeled by the attacker for instance when executing an ippon seoi nage, the attacker might be able to take you down to the floor, and the situation becomes more complicated with multiple attackers. Sutemi waza in this context become very dangerous. That's why aikido limits the body contact as much as possible and emphasizes keeping one's balance and distance for safety reasons. PS. Curiously enough I have personally used aikido in real life situations twice and it worked like a charm, while in the same time it is almost impossible sometimes to throw someone who wants to be a smart a** at the dojo and have to surprise them with a Judo-like hip throw to force the technique on them. |
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I think there is a lot of truth in the quate you brought. Aikido often demands the practitioner to be perfect for the technique to work, at least against a non-copmliant attacker.
I would not claim Aikido techniques skip the technical level, since there are a lot of "technical details" such as hip movement and associated motorics in most techniques, without which the technique would be most difficult to apply. But, Aikido does put a lot of emphasis on Kuzushi, Mai, timing etc. Amir |
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Interesting subject.
Many of Ueshiba M.'s students started Aikido with prior training in fighting arts and had the core mechanics for good fighting technique on starting Aikido. In this light one could just take them further along towards the "Aiki" aspects of the training. For those without that knowledge the (Aiki) Jujutsu type "fight science" foundation needed to be set. Even today this happens in my dojo, students who come knowing how to fight (especially from a Jujutsu/Judo background) just need to learn how to use Aiki strategy and tactics, balance control, timing, ma ai, kuzushi etc. more efficiently or differently than they did. Those who do not know this start at the ground floor. Quote:
Just my thoughts. LC:ai::ki: |
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The other set of 'core' teachings you bring up would be the internal dynamics/skills. You watch videos of Mifune, and you realize that some of these guys had it, but others just developed enough musculature to be able to throw without it. I would imagine that Kano's love of Western education probably didn't do many of the more esoteric training methodologies any good, as they probably didn't fit into the PE training paradigm he was shooting for. I could be wrong however, if you look at the Kosen Judo guys, they sure do some weird stuff as solo and paired exercises. I'm sure a lot of them approach it just like lifting weights, but many of them could be done with the eyes turned inwards as interesting internal training tools. It could also just be gay pr0n, but I digress... (Anyone whose seen the exercises in question will get the joke there.) ;) If you're able to find a teacher and dojo that get both sides of that however, you're going to be getting some very good stuff (a la Mifune...). I don't believe it's enough to just know what's going on inside, particularly for a jujutsu art (which I consider aikido and judo to be subsets of). I think it would be easier to transition from non-applied internal practitioner to practical fighter with the striking arts. With grappling/throwing arts however there is an almost equal need to understand the principles of the interaction in order to understand how to apply those internal/baseline skills. For example, I feel kuzushi is just as important in aikido waza as judo waza. You may get kuzushi differntly (or not) but it is just as critical. Aikido without kuzushi is just kansetsuwaza and not really different from any other form of jujutsu *whose goal is to injure the joints of the attacker*. Applying internal power/fa jing/ mad ki-blast skillz to an improperly done joint throw will only result in damage to the joint and injury. This, I believe, is outside the framework for aikido, and yet, it's how most people do their waza. Unfortunately, I don't see either sets of what I consider to be core skillsets/principles being taught much in aikido anymore. |
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I think there is truth to the judo post. I think you get out of training what you put into training. I think many of O'Sensei's students were fairly good fighters before training aikido, so it would make sense they did not require that training within their aikido training.
I see a lot of aikido people who say, "aikido is not about fighting." If you don't put fight into your training, I don't think you'll get fight out of your training. The confusion comes when those who do not excel in aikido claim their handicap results from the art, not their skill. Add to that confusion those who claim their ignorance of fighting results from the art, not their skill. |
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I've always taken a page from Tomiki sensei who was well versed in both arts. He said that aikido was judo at a distance. Building off what Chris wrote then aikido becomes more difficult because one has to apply the priciples of judo over more distance and with less contact.
I wonder if the internal skill set that Rob mentions might be better classified as atributes rather than skills. If so then the skills of aikido or judo would be greatly enhanced when performed by someone with the atributes produced by the core skill set. |
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I always look at it as keeping a range were aikido is usually trained is much harder then the range where judo is trained. It is usually easy to clinch, aikido as I see it trained is ment to be used before the clinch. It is hard to keep people in that range.
Personally I am so used to judo that once we clinch I don't even bother trying aikido stuff, the judo stuff is easy enough. |
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In my observation...
Judo train RAN-DORI first and then KATA later. Aikido train KATA first then RAN-DORI later. [This could explain why the effectiveness vs time graph would favour the Judoka. But after a length of time, their skill gap may reduce] - highly speculative Darn! I just wish them Japan folks would organize a 10 men match up between Kodokan and Shodokan school consisting of university players. That would be a fantasy match come true. Hmmm.. since we are at it, I would also wish to see a 10 men match up between amateur MMA fighters and the Senshusei trained riot cops. So... is this possible? Popcorn anyone? I'll go do some push-up or something.... Boon. |
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Hi Boon...I think the riot cops would lose. The main point of that course for them (as tough as it is) is to train their spirit (or so I've been told), not to make them uber deadly. ;)
MMA atheletes are the cream of the crop...anyone not training for that venue is going to have a hard time. Some will get lucky and pull of enough of a clean waza to prevail...but most will likely get caught in something basic in MMA, but not trained in aikido. Just the way it goes... Best, Ron (my opinion only, humble or otherwise...) |
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Of course the Kodokan stands no chance vs the Shodokan.:)
Especially if we get to bring bokken. :D LC:ai::ki: |
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From my limited experience, it seems a lot easier to throw someone at judo range than at aikido range.
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It's my understanding that Ueshiba was pretty much a rough-n-tumble badboy. Tons of muscle stacked on tons of more muscle. On top of that he had plenty of training. So he had the leverage/strength/speed thing down. But as he aged it occurred to him that he wouldn't have that forever, and since he had the understaning of kuzushi/tsukuri/ma-ai/etc... he reasoned that those elements would allow the weaker, smaller, slower person to overpower the larger.
It is my opinion that if you first train a person to rely on strength, speed, and leverage, you must then "untrain" them so that they dispose of those elements when executing waza. If one starts out training for the "inner" elements first, the "outer" elements become icing on the cake, or extra tools in the tool box. I think that was Ueshiba's thinking. |
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In my experience, if you're twisting the body and knees at "not so natural angles" you are not doing judo properly. Form follows function and function follows form. Perhaps your natural angles are different though...
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Best, Ron |
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He looks like he's taking a walk in the park compared to most judo I've watched. |
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Some people do what I call "weight lifting" judo (and aikido) that makes them use their body in ways that facilitate static lifting and rotating movements. This, to me, does seem awkward and uncomfortable.
Ippon seoinage need be nothing more than turning around while lowering your hips a bit and looking around your shoulder as you turn. Nothing in your body should be out of line. Granted you have to do that turn at the right time in the right place in coordination with what the other person is doing... Watch Mifune Kyuzo Sensei do it on film. You shouldn't redesign the human structure in order to do budo efficiently. I'll admit, I learned similar ways to what you're describing for the first ten years or so that I did judo. Thankfully I found teachers that corrected that and it continues to work better and better for the past forty years. Addition: after posting this I see that a couple of folks beat me to it... |
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