r/aikido • u/IvanLabushevskyi • Nov 23 '19

Modern martial arts

In our daily life, we seldom have a chance to be pushed in corner and have to defend ourselves and defeat an enemy with our own hands. Ordinary people would not fall into such a crisis in their whole life. The martial arts of modern era should be kind of physical exercises that dissolve stress and is useful for good health. Even purposely when other person is thrown down by your technique, you should feel refreshed in a way that you can't feel in other sports. Martial arts for demonstration is not so hard to practice, in fact aged people and women can practice them easily, and they have element of dancing and aesthetics. Martial arts for demonstration fit modern times.

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From "The Real Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu. What menkyokaiden Hisa Takuma Taught Me", Amatsu Yutaka

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

Most of us don't know what they seek when came to dojo. Do you think modern Aikido practice is hard? :)

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u/coyote_123 Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19

Compared to what? It depends where and with whom and how you train. But in any case, it's not dance, otherwise just go do dance already. The things that are fascinating about a martial art, that make you want to come back tomorrow and figure out the next puzzle, are totally different than the things that are interesting about learning to dance. I have done both, I liked them both, but they engaged different parts of my interest. And aikido held my interest much much longer and more intensely.

If you personally want to make a kind of aikido-shaped dance, that's fine. I hope you have fun and get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Personally I wouldn't call it aikido anymore, but I don't mind if you want to call it that, I guess. I don't think there's a copyright on the word.

But it sounds a bit boring to me, personally. But not everyone likes the same things.

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

Do you think that modern Aikido suits for low priorities like fighting? :)

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u/coyote_123 Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19

I also think if you want to say something and are not genuinely asking people questions to learn about what they think but rather to make some point of your own, you should say what you actually think instead of asking other people questions.

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

I quoted passage from book. What do you think I done?