“Training on the mat is not realistic, and nor is it meant to be. It is important to understand the ins and outs of the mat to get the most out of your training.
In training, the tori attempts to perform a very specific technique. In essence, they are very restricted in what they can do to the uke’s attack. For this reason the attack must be very specific. It also must simulate a situation where the attacker is unaware of what the thrower will do. You would be surprised how exact an attack needs to be – changing a grip a few degrees can make a world of difference.”
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No … I wouldn’t be surprised .. I have been saying this for years, and half the time I get resistance from students but on the whole not from advanced teachers, who just kinda bite their tongue and smile mysteriously.
Anyone who has been a fight, or hurt someone seriously knows … it is a small margin between safe practice and practical application. Question is … how close to practical application can we come without straying into the danger zone and still maintain “safe practice”?
How safe is Brazilian Jujitsu when you add Aikido to the mix and you practice partner hasn’t practiced falls or practice with partners the way we do for aikido? Not very safe at all.
What happens if you use the application of pressure points during aikido practice and knock out your practice partner? Is that partner healthy, not on drugs, and will they respond to healing techniques to awaken them? You don’t know, and the fact is Aikido teachers don’t know or care to learn what is hidden in their art. Go figure.
JUST STAY WITH AIKIDO PRACTICE THE WAY IT IS NOW … much safer … and let the student go find what is hidden in the art … yeah … much much safer that way. Less legal hassles too.
Sometimes I wonder … what did they do with the body of a student when the student was accidentally killed during practice two or three hundred years ago? Marked grave, unmarked grave? We don’t talk about that much, do we ….
I think that the general practice, as I understand it, was that visiting students who were on a martial arts pilgrimage, simply disappeared if they found their “ultimate goal”. There still aren’t very many lawyers in Japan.