I absolutely agree with you, and your earlier point that such videos give a bad name to aikido: if you think, someone was going around saying you were something you were not, or believed/did something you did not, then you might not like that - so too with aikido.

On this version of the video - with 1.5 million views - he is said to practice 'Daitouryu-aikido':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tib2Urowsdc

Regarding the actual fight, for all the criticism of the wrist grabs in aikido, the guy actually grabs the 'master's' wrist! If he did aikido, he would have finished the fight there, i'd think - even against someone who does MMA.

'Japan's Yanagi Ryuken can teach you now. He holds a 10th degree black belt in five traditional martial arts, and his system is based on martial arts like Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu and spiritual paths like Qigong. Yanagi Ryuken supposedly won over 200 Vale Tudo competitions'

http://www.dbskeptic.com/2008/05/29/...uch-knockouts/

And a brief video exposing a fake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yDL...eature=related