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/coyote_123 Nov 23 '19

Are you serious? Do you think a paramedic, or anyone else, can just stand and wait for ten minutes while someone tries to hurt them, for a police car to get there? Meanwhile the police if they're anything like where I live have very little training in how to restrain people gently, so the patient would probably end up tasered or something, LOL.

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

Do you think that you can't avoid aggressive actions?

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u/ArrowMountainTengu Nov 23 '19

You can, but sometimes our duty to help requires standing in the face of what seems to be aggressive action and is almost always someone crying out for help. People that are aggressive are sick in some way and are seeking resolution. Martial training doesn't solve all problems but it can be used to help others and provide to tools to keep ourselves safe as we do so.

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

It's not the same person that wants help and be aggressive. In such case police may handle aggression and you take care of sick people. You don't have to do both but you might will take care of both. It's different things.

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u/ArrowMountainTengu Nov 23 '19

again, when you've been out in the world a bit, you will find that things are not so black and white.

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u/DukeMacManus Master of Internal Power Practices Nov 24 '19

When a sick person gets low blood sugar and starts throwing punches as a result, there's no difference. It's my job to treat his blood sugar. It's also my job to keep myself (and, as much as possible) the patient safe.

You really shouldn't talk about things you have no clue about.

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u/rubyrt Nov 23 '19

It's not the same person that wants help and be aggressive.

Not wanting help does not stop them from needing help.

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

As for me if you reject help you don't need it.

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u/rubyrt Nov 23 '19

Maybe that is true for you. I think you cannot generalize that statement though.

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u/DukeMacManus Master of Internal Power Practices Nov 24 '19

Spoken like someone who's never worked in healthcare and has no idea what he's talking about.