Dear Carl, many thanks for all your support and encouragements!

❤

@@StefanStenudd peccato che sei in Svezia ed io in Italia ; mi sono dovuto accontentare del kali filippino ; mio fratello sostiene che unendo il kali al aikido si otterrebbe l'arte eccelsa perché si invecchia e l'Aikido possiede la strategia migliore in assoluto un motivo molto semplice si fonda sul evasione e come diceva il fondatore l'Aikido non combatte mai e quindi il rischio di soccombere e sempre minore ( penso che questo concetto debba essere applicato per qualsiasi sistema)

​@@stefanoferroni7778wisely spoken about ultimate strategy.

@JohnBullard, I'm not sure about your statistics, but I do agree that it's better to train than not :)

@@StefanStenudd I think that was a claim made by Bokkuden, O-samurai, undefeated in 19 duels.

@@JohnBullard I don't doubt it. Unarmed against someone armed is not easy, and against someone very skilled it is close to impossible.

@asev1969, as I say in the video and its description, this is not to be regarded as a sufficient defense against knife attacks, but a way of conditioning functional reflexes. In other words: how to make our reflexes beneficial and not detrimental when we are surprised.

Maybe you mean udekimenage?

Thank you!

@workfishgreen, I have practiced it. Have you?

I'd like to think so.

Thank you, Carl Atkins, for being continuously supportive!

Yes, kind of. Or tenchinage.

@xTwistedFleshX, that was not very nice of you -- but it was funny :D

don't forget the gut

@AikiCircus, watching videos on your channel I doubt that you would do any better.

@@StefanStenudd You are right. I'm just learning and I probably cannot do it better. However, I think I could. But we speak here not about me. Anyway, thank you for your attention. I personally consider you as one of the greatest masters with a lot of understanding.

Well, sword duels are rare nowadays, but the aikiken techniques have an origin from times when they were not.

Are there techniques in Aikiken to hold the sword with one hand and perform the technique?

Master please made video about all stance aikiken and also all stance aikido Thank you very much, this is very important to me. If you don't mind, please make a video about these two topics

@rcombatlife9838, I've seen that in aikido, too. But definitely not only that. There are many different ways to practice aikido.

@attygarland6909, that's an interesting idea. It might also lead to an increased understanding of what's going on in the technique.

@ghettoent, if it made you laugh it just might be :)

@bujin5455, I agree. As I say in the video description: "Kaeshiwaza is practiced to improve the aikido techniques so that counters become increasingly difficult." It needs to be experienced and trained.

@@StefanStenudd I didn't read your video description before posting, as I watched your video as a youtube short. But I just read your description, since you mentioned it. I think Kaeshiwaza is mostly a matter of kokyu ho. Though my understanding of kokyu ho is very different then what I see most dojos teaching. For me, kokyu ho is the study of identifying the line of ki between two haras, and then learning how to dominate that line. Basically all kokyu ho techniques are extensions of this idea. It's a specific form of masculine Aiki, a very yang (yo) form of blending. Whereas most Aikidoka focus on mastering the yin (in)/feminine form of Aiki (getting out of the way of energy (yin), verses changing the energy's path (yang)). In fact, most Aikidoka only understand Aiki from the feminine stand point, they don't realize that a masculine form even exists. O'Sensei started and ended every class with kokyu dosa, because masculine Aiki is the bed rock of Aikido, and kokyu dosa best exemplifies it in a way you can't ignore. When you're sitting on your legs, and uke's energy is bearing down on your pinned hands, you have to change the line of energy (yang), instead of changing yourself to the energy (yin). When you perform Ikkyo, for example, this technique is supposed to be executed with exactly the same masculine Aiki energy that you develop in kokyu dosa. Once you master this, you should be able to channel it through any technique, executed from any part of your body. Fundamentally when you do a reversal, it's not really a matter of timing, or exploitation of poor technique, it's a matter of superior kokyu. Between two people who actually understand Aikido, the person who has the deepest understanding of Aiki will ultimately express the technique.

@@bujin5455thank you for elaborating so generously on the subject. I have no doubt that if one is significantly superior in whatever way, the other will have trouble managing any technique as well as any counter. The joy in the practice is to help each other improve beyond previous shortcomings.

@@StefanStenudd yes, of course, the point of practice is to improve over time. Anyway, hopefully you found what I said to be constructive. Though it is difficult to explain principles like these through written communication (verses physically demonstrating it), so I have no idea if you followed my point, or if I sounded like a weirdo. I hope it was the former. Take care.

@@bujin5455it was definitely the former. I found your comment an interesting read. Thank you.