My whole view is don't do what you want to do, do what they let you do. Never go into it thinking I'm going to do this or that. Go into it thinking whatever they ask me to do to them is what I will do. Go into it as a blank piece of paper and let them write the story, they're just writing what they think is their story but in truth it is always going to end in my benefit.

A very good video indeed! Thank you Tony Shihan for sharing your knowledge on these fine points of what works and what does not work and why. So important to grasp this point in my view...

Hi Tony, my name is Kenny Lynch and I've got a different, more generic solution to this problem. I hope one day to share it with you at a seminar. At the very least, it's nice to see someone online beginning to address the problem. In my view also, speeding up or using the cross-step can be helpful in overcoming strong attacks from behind but the need to change speeds abruptly introduces a further problem, namely the breaking up of smooth flowing movement...and the reliance on speed can make the speedier person win. The cross step also introduces a moment of vulnerability at the very moment of the crossing. In short, one is forced to adopt a less balanced position momentarily, which is, of course, what a smart attacker, whether judoka, wrestler, or jujitsu-ka would attempt to exploit or even attempt to set up..!

Thank you! I like the toolbox comparison! I just got my first little set of tools and trying to learn to saw straight (6 months aikido, learning for 6th Kyu)! But, there always is a tool that can do multiple jobs, like a monkey wrench and then there are power tools, which do the job, only faster. Are there such power techniques and/or versatile "wazas" in Aikido?

Tool box got a little heavier today, thanks much

You turn one foot out, centre, drop your elbow and height and rise up. Elementary technique.

Sensei my cup is always half empty thank you for this lesson Oss

2:06 would like to see what was done with the left arm (block by trainer)... coz if it's the same as the right arm, it's a joke! It's a joke anyway because the helper isn't holding on! Anyway, it's much much harder to twist this way, than the conventional way where you lower a bit and simply rotate the wrist (anti-clockwise).

*in the first 40 seconds i can see this is one of those McDojo, bullshido, fake Sensei Swindle guys!* NO ONE _real_ would ever say you can't do this 0:37! It's the first thing you learn in basic self defense in most types of martial arts! [ A simple, rotation of the wrist lets a weaker, smaller person EASILY break the hold on an arm. It's simple physics. ] As to what follows, it's the same as so many bullshido guys doing demos. (A willing, helping partner and so on....) *_P.s._*_ I'm not hating on Aikido. I have used Aikido in many real fights, even as a kid - avoiding bullies (mainly the principle of turning and avoiding and using opponents momentum against them) and in work doing security. I only object to the common fakery and how it's presented wrong or without supplementation with other martial arts._ P.p.s. Watch this comment get deleted! 🤪

i'm, painfully, watching on and around 3:40 i can't bite my tongue anymore about the WHOLE PREMISE to begin with! It's such nonsense! NO ONE grabs ppl like that! {I'm 50 btw and worked in crowd control and also the kind of security where we were _constantly_ having to arrest ppl who were _very_ unwilling and fighting to get away, I've been in street fights, I have done training since the age of about 13, plenty of practice, lots of grappling etc} It's just not natural or realistic! Why would you have your arm up like that? Ppl don't generally grab your arm like this... The closest thing is pushing and shoving but that's a whole other thing. You're defending against a low arm grab that for some bizarre reason, starts high?? What i'm saying is, ppl don't grab your arm up high, then turn and lower it into that position. It's bizarre and insane.. I don't think i have ever seen that. I've seen hundreds of grabbing upheld arms but from the other side, i.e. thumb up...but yeh, like i said, that's a _whole other thing._