Demo

What do you think of this demo?

Here's another one

Well choreographed. But I wonder how much more arm/shoulder power he'd need for less cooperative uke.....

It's hard to be impressed with aikido.

Couldn't get through to the second one. It's hard to say about the skills. Looks good, but the degree of uke cooperation and choreography is unknown. Aesthetically, I don't like the lighting or the music at all, and there's something about the main nage's manner that appears cocky or swaggering or something - this impression could be accentuated by the flashy lighting/music. Overall, I wouldn't show it to someone as a representative example of Aikido.

Kevin Wilbanks wrote: Overall, I wouldn't show it to someone as a representative example of Aikido.

Hi Kevin,

I'm not sure I'd show any video to non-Aikidokas as representative of Aikido. It's difficult for them not to come across as over-choreographed

1st clip
I would agree that there is too much arm power.
2nd clip
Trying to hard- he would be a ( ! ) in my book. Why is he wearing gloves for the last part and not making contact with uke?

The demo looks very much like Takemusu Aikido (Iwama style) type. Generally good. I would prefer to show this demo to non aikido practitioners than the No Touch Throw video I posted a while ago. See this thread

Uke's attack may be arranged (it is a demo, afterall), but I think the tori's response is not.

Boon.

That doesn´t look like Iwama style to me. To much running around, little jumps, spinning with jo, flashy "kokyunage" etc....

I think there's one universal truism... Never post vidoes on the net no matter how good you think you are or how many dan grades you've been given.

Regards

I thought the first one was a decent demo.

Dave Humm wrote: I think there's one universal truism... Never post vidoes on the net no matter how good you think you are or how many dan grades you've been given. Regards

Why not?

The first video is nice, but the lighting and music? It's jsut trying abit too hard.

As someone else already said, hard to impress anyone with a mere demonstration if they don't "know" Aikido.