Anybody do Aikido?

Scorcho · Yellow Belt

Though I am still more of a Karate-do man, I have taken up Aikido at college and I really enjoy it. Nice to learn some close fighting skills.
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TomanGaidin · White Belt

I've been doing Iwama Ryu Takemusu Aikido for a bit over a year now, and thoroughly enjoy it. Wouldn't mind trying a bit of judo sometime when I've got the extra time and money for a spot of randori to better timing and such, but in any case that'd only be in addition, not a replacement. I enjoy aikido too much

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TURBO7 · White Belt

Can someone reccomend an Aikido association that would be best to train under??? I am a TKDist, and I want to learn some grappling (internal) not so square art. What would be the best Aikido ryu to do?? I want to be able to do Aikido mostly for "real world" self defense, not that McDojo crapola.

TomanGaidin · White Belt

As with most styles, it'd probably depend on the dojo. Some instructors focus on self defence, some on traditional weapons, some on ki/spiritual aspects, some on all of those combined. But, it could be said that some associations have different focus overall - but just a note that does differ from dojo to dojo. Anyway -

Yoshinkan - They're one of the harder, more 'martial' styles of aikido. The few clips I've seen of Yoshinkan students have left me impressed.

Tenshin - The style sort of formed by Seagal, it seems to focus quite heavily on quickly applicable techniques. Some of it seems a bit like old school jujutsu, and their randori is intense enough that it can go to the ground and continue on with the 'thrower' trying to get to their feet and just continue on. Realistic training, in other words.

Shodokan/Tomiki - Don't know too much about these, but they have sparring in them with an unarmed person versus another person with a rubber tanto (knife), and I'm not sure, but Shodokan at higher levels I believe has unarmed vs unarmed sparring. As said, though, I'm not sure. Seems like it can be a fairly hard style.

Aside from those, I'm not sure... I give a spiel for my own style of aikido, Iwama Ryu, but... that'd be cheating ;p.

TURBO7 · White Belt

TomanGaidin · White Belt

Should've been 'I'd give a spiel', not 'I give a spiel'... but anyway...

Iwama is one of the more 'traditional' styles of aikido. Not necessarily more martial, as that depends on the dojo, but the particular one I'm in always stresses integrity in each attack and movement, etc, to ensure that it's the technique that's working and not just the other person 'giving' it over.

One of the trademarks of Iwama Ryu seems to be a bit more weapons training, and from earlier on. In the dojo I'm in we start straight away with an hour of weapons work, bokken (wooden sword) or jo (staff) with occasionally some tanken/tanto (knife) work afterward before moving onto an hour of unarmed techniques. In other styles such as Yoshinkan I've heard of the training being completely unarmed based before a certain rank, yet again this would be dependant on the preference of the instructor at an individual dojo.

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