Short Aikido video clip

TDWoj

Administrator
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Very nice!

I watched your san ju ichi kata as well. The style is different than how we practice it, but I liked it very much. Very fluid!
 

Aikilove

Old member aikidoka
Thank you! Well 31 kata was formalized by Saito Morihiro sensei as he was taught it by the founder (more or less). Saito sensei taught it to my teacher personally as well as to many others. Many would use his books and videos and try to learn and that's why you see many "ways" of performing the kata today (for good and bad). The version you see me do the kata performed is more fluid than you normally would train it and, of curse, I added the component of rotating it freely and not just going back and forward. That was just a thing of the moment and not how it should be trained.

FWIW you can see Saito perform it here together with the awase form - 31 kumi jo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUYVU33wVsU&feature=related

/J
 

Aikilove

Old member aikidoka
Another clip. This time from the All Sweden Aikido Camp. There was a demo in conjunction with this and 3 of us 4 from Sweden aikido team going to World Combat Gamed Beijing 2010 did a brief demo. We train at very different locations and in different styles but managed to set something together 10 minutes before the demo. I think we did ok considering some of us have never trained together before!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gj1UMNSxRw
I also recomend watching some of the other demos, in particular this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9Dtnmzpbc&feature=related
Nice!

/J
 
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