When you train aikido you are always working with a partner to improve both you and your partner's technique, to the point that you never have to worry about attacks againTDWoj said:Okay, then, I've got a question. If you are working with a partner - uke - to perform aikido, what use is it as a defensive martial art? Since, I'm thinking, out on the street if a bad guy is trying to harm me, he sure as heck isn't going to be my "partner" and just let me throw him out of the way.
Everytime I watched it Steven is allways initially attacked by them all at the same time. You see, if you're doing it right you are able to treat many as one and one as many. After the first evasion one always position himself and his partners in a way so that it looks like they are coming one after the other. Seagal are an expert at this. The students doing the test however didn't do a too good of job doing this. That's why it appear the partners are all swarming over him/her with the inevidable result of collaps.I've watched PBT several times, and I noticed something when the students did the 3-man randori. Every time the student who was being attacked let himself get grabbed, so that it was impossible for him/her to wriggle out of the clutch. It was interesting also to see that the "attacking" students all attacked at the same time. When Steven did it, the attacking students were nice enough to attack one at a time, so he was never caught in a clutch.
(Mind you, it was interesting to watch him because he did always have his eye on the next attacker after despatching the first, but still. They never all attacked him three on one at the same time - it was always consecutive, but with the students, the attack always came at once.)
/J