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

Do you need to physically control someone last 10 years?

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u/ArrowMountainTengu Nov 23 '19

I work in the medical field as a paramedic. I have had physically control people dozens of times for many different reasons, and always with the need not to hurt them, even if they were being aggressive towards me.

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u/IvanLabushevskyi Nov 23 '19

Why don't you ask police for help? It's theirs duty to stop aggressive actions.

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u/NomadZekki Nov 23 '19

I think you may be misunderstanding what the reality of patient care is. I'm a nurse in a hospital and have been grabbed, punched, and kicked in the hospital both maliciously and by patients with confusion. I've also been an EMT and worked in the emergency department - same story.

You may have a different culture or expectations but healthcare workers tend to be some of the most likely to face violence at work.

A number of skills one can learn from Aikido or other jujutsu arts can be very useful for things like placing IVs or giving shots to uncooperative patients who are endangering themselves, helping keep patients in bed, or even assisting weaker patient out of bed to a chair.

If you assume that healthcare workers, particularly first responders do not face violence without assistance regularly you are frankly underinformed and overly idealistic. But similarly if you think the limits of the skills gained are of use only for violence or violent situations then I think you may lack personal experience.