Aikido vs. Holduppers

3 gangs foiled by an aikido practitioner in Manila, Philippines.

http://www.gmanews.tv/video/8361/Aikido-blackbelter-foils-3-holdup-men

Only word I understood was Aikido hee hee.
Anyway this was a good evidence that Randori can work if you know how to direct your focus.

And to think of all those posters who said that Aikido would not work in a "real" fight.

Hey Jun, how about that video forum I keep asking for?

I was surprised that they were showing the suspects on camera...even apparently asking them questions about what happened.

As for the "real life aikido" thing -- only anecdotally, not scientifically.

I wish we could have seen the actual fight.

Though it was funny to see the three guys looking very, very sad.

Here's a short translation:
The aikidoka and his girlfriend got surrounded by the three guys while walking the night before. The girlfriend during the interview claimed that the guy in white shirt had a butterfly knife, while the guy in green held her. Nothing was mentioned about the other guy but my guess is he was with the aikidoka and got the first friendly kiss from the ground. when they interviewed the aikidoka (ball cap covering his face), he did not go into detail on how or what he did to the crooks. The crooks during the interview claimed innocence of course.

Wow they had a knife. That makes me appreciate more the fact that none of the gang members had no visible injury. That is the perfect example of Aiki...probably 3 Vs 1 and a knife I would have aimed more to break a few bones to save me and my girlfriend.
(But of course at my level I would have just gotten stabbed several times hee hee).

Larry Cuvin wrote: Here's a short translation: The aikidoka and his girlfriend got surrounded by the three guys while walking the night before. The girlfriend during the interview claimed that the guy in white shirt had a butterfly knife, while the guy in green held her. Nothing was mentioned about the other guy but my guess is he was with the aikidoka and got the first friendly kiss from the ground. when they interviewed the aikidoka (ball cap covering his face), he did not go into detail on how or what he did to the crooks. The crooks during the interview claimed innocence of course.

Thank you for the translation. Fun stuff.

Paul Sanderson-Cimino wrote: I was surprised that they were showing the suspects on camera...even apparently asking them questions about what happened. As for the "real life aikido" thing -- only anecdotally, not scientifically.

Meaning what?

Nafis Zahir wrote: Meaning what?

"A friend of mine who used to smoke a lot got lung cancer. You shouldn't smoke."

vs.

"A large-n study correcting for confounding variables finds that smokers have ten times the risk of non-smokers of developing lung cancer."

Another example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37NOUTOoPg
"This video shows a spinning kick to the head knocking someone senseless. Therefore, this kind of kick is a good attack to use if you want to knock someone out."

vs.

"The majority of knockouts in professional kickboxing are due to punches to the head, according to a large-n study of past matches. Contestants who attempt a jumping spin kick are usually defeated, and consequently few competitors employ such kicks."

I'm just pointing out the superiority of repeatable, verifiable experiments relative to second-hand anecdotes. You can find stories of people allegedly fending off attackers in all kinds of ways. Like putting an RNC on a bobcat, or using kung fu against five guys with baseball bats. A story with a (hyped up, trying-to-sell-papers) news article attached is just slightly more compelling than "This story my friend heard once."

But sure, it's an interesting story.

I would like to share this video about ... well, not really aikido vs holduppers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VYLCP0JeIU
Enjoy.

Dieter Haffner wrote: I would like to share this video about ... well, not really aikido vs holduppers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VYLCP0JeIU Enjoy.

I miss those. I wish they'd do more of them.

Seagal is a twit from what I've heard, but I like the commercial.

Great, now everytime another "Aikido on the street" thread comes up, people are gonna be linking this article.

Props and respect to the guy for getting himself and his lady out of the situation. But no video, no explanation of what he did? For all we know he pulled out his own butterfly knife and waved it around at the dudes. Hehe.

From what i've heard pretty much everyone in the Phillipines carries a blade; it's their culture.

Problem solved then!

The holduppers probably got aikistabbed.

Roman Kremianski wrote: Problem solved then! The holduppers probably got aikistabbed.

Like the Shioda-sensei "broken bottle in the face" technique. The broken bottle joined completely with the attacker, using their own momentum.

Paul Sanderson-Cimino wrote: Like the Shioda-sensei "broken bottle in the face" technique. The broken bottle joined completely with the attacker, using their own momentum.

Just read "angry white pyjamas" by any chance?

Jo Duncan wrote: Just read "angry white pyjamas" by any chance?

Actually, no...just remember hearing it somewhere. I think it may have been in that series on AikidoJournal about Shioda's life. (Wacky series, that.)

I took a look at that book...and the negative things I'd heard were pretty well-substantiated. Shioda-sensei says, "Hm, let's see how much aikido we can slam into you in a year of insanely hard training...anyone want to be a guinea pig?" and this guy says, "Sure!" Then he WHINES INCESSANTLY ABOUT HOW HARD IT WAS. What did you expect, genius?

The worst I saw while flipping through was the section about how happy he was when Shioda died, because it meant they got some time off training.

Jo Duncan wrote: From what i've heard pretty much everyone in the Phillipines carries a blade; it's their culture.

And who told you that? Someone who actually lived there?

As someone who was born and bred there, I think I'm qualified to comment.

I think the knife carrying proportion of the population in urban areas of the Philippines is no larger than in most other countries of the world.
In the rural areas, adults regularly carry blades (machetes or bolos) as part of their work as farmers.

The image of fhe Philippines as a "knife bearing culture" is vastly exaggerated, I think.

All the best,

Cito

Jo Duncan wrote: From what i've heard pretty much everyone in the Phillipines carries a blade; it's their culture.

Yes that is indeed true, just like in the U.S. everybody wears body armor and carries an M-16 (a friend of mine doing a semester of foreign study in Malaysia was actually asked if that was true)

Bronson

Bronson Diffin wrote: Yes that is indeed true, just like in the U.S. everybody wears body armor and carries an M-16 (a friend of mine doing a semester of foreign study in Malaysia was actually asked if that was true) Bronson

And just like in Scotland, everyone wears a kilt and carries a claymore

Sorry, Jo, couldn't resist!

Cito

Howdy from Texas, where the sixguns are riding low on our hips and the cattle are in every persons spread, y'all.

Dont'cha love the typecasting?
Lan

Well, I'm not sure what happens in the colonies but I'm never seen without my pinstripe suit, bowler hat and furled umbrella.