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For people who live in Australia, Bruce Lee Story is on tonight (17/july/05) on channel Ten at 11:30 so you can tape it if u want. Theres also another show on Channel 7 called Fight School on thursday at 12:30 (Approx) its a reality series about some martial artists from england and they all goto china to fight each other (the fights are semi-contact) and the styles are striking ones like tae kwon do kickboxing and karate. so as you can see they put all the good show on late night TV.

With that I must agree in part but along with that I'll add the following. As far as being 'superman', no most people are not able to throw people around like that on their own, but when your stuck in sankyo and you can feel your elbow about to pop, or you've been manipulated into a reversal with your arm in a full extension, to the point of hyperextension, you'd be surprised what your do to avoid a dislocation or tendon tear. A lot of training we do is to increase awareness or the attack or possibility of attack. It's believed that you should be fully aware of your surroundings and avoid conflict at all costs. I.E. If you are walking down a dark street in a bad part of town, you should notice the silhouette of three men standing on the street corner two blocks away. At that point you should take evasive action; cross the street, turn back, go into a shop and wait, etc. You should never needlessly put yourself into a situation where you must use decisive force. If you should happen to walk head first into that situation, then you must control it from the start. This is done by positioning yourself to bait* the attackers in a way that is conducive to a favorable outcome; diffuse the situation with no harm done, surviving that attack with the least possible harm to both you and the attacker, and finally, if necessary, subduing the attacker to the point they no longer want to continue. * baiting the attacker is often referred ‘michi-biku’ or leading the attacker, in more colloquial terms we often say ‘esa-o-ageru’. (col. offering food to an animal, a worm on a hook, a dog biscuit, etc) And finally, I guess aikido is an art that needs adaptation. I will generalize here for the sake of making a quick point, one you may have heard before. All techniques in aikido are based on disarming an attacker, that is, you have no weapon, and the attacker does. In the old days, there were three; the sword, the knife, staff of course in various sizes, shapes and lengths. And there were three basic angles of attack; over head, from the side, usually to the face or throat, and a thrust, usually to the face, throat, chest, abdomen or groin. Since the mechanics of the human body haven’t changed much the principals of attach haven’t changed either. And although we don’t carry swords or staffs and for the most part knives, now the techniques are practiced empty handed. The over head attack, whether it’s with a sword or beer bottle is mechanically the same. The same holds true for a side attack, with no knife or bottle, the mechanics of a ‘hay-maker’ are practically identical. And someone trying to punch you in the stomach is really no different mechanically than someone trying to stab you in the stomach. So, the movements or mechanics of the old techniques should be adapted to their modern day application. Good article JEM618, Aikido is based around the sword, so if the techniques didnt work we would be mince meat.

These movie are my favourite type of movies - entertaining.

Yes well the leaps and all that are for you safety but if they cant throw them with the without help of the opponent then that is not Aikido because the person throwing uses the power from his whole body to throw(it is very easy then when you master the whole body power).If you did this in the demonstrations then alot of people would get hurt this is why we all co-operate with each, another reason is if you resisted then you wouldnt learn anything, because you must learn first how to use another persons body to your advantage, when you are more advanced then you can learn more about throwing a resisting opponent or something like that.

Fighter in the Wind http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/fighterinthewind_010605.htm karatebullfighter (sonny chiba) http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/karatebullfighter.htm I really want to see these movies but I think it will be hard to find them in Australia

Yes you can call us Aikidoka, this site has animations http://www.aikido-world.com/highlights/technical%20_tips/Aikido-Techniques.htm

TKDguy I didnt post in this because I thought it was for Judo throws, anyway my favourite throw is a kotegaeshi.

This article I found long time ago its a better one its about its use in the police force. http://www.aikidoonline.com/Archives/2002/sep/clmn_0902_bcorner.html

yer but the kyokushin guys wont even trying they just were mucking around.

then why is he teaching it in the military, maybe its like a confidence thing or something.

Found this article while searching google. http://www.defence.gov.au/news/armynews/editions/1059/topstories/story23.htm

I saw it last night, I like how they put martial arts into it I think it really suites batman especially the art of stealth , ninjitsu. It was a really slow movie at the start but then it started to get alot better, it was good not perfect but entertaining. and who would know that Qui-Gon Jinn would be bad lol

look at the older star wars like when obi wan versus darth vader that wasnt flashy well not as flashy as the ones they got now.

yer thats it

"I dont punch it punches all by itself" I think thats right , thats off enter the dragon.

Its amazing how much martial arts is in StarWars and how people dont notice it.

Aikidoka have jiyu waza which I believe is the same as randori.

I started young (learning karate) but left a few months later because I had a hard time getting to yellow belt and learning the terminology I only started again when I was about 15 (doing karate but now I do Aikido) now im 17.

Yes there should be a big similarity becuase they both learnt from the same master of Daito-Ryu - Takeda Sokaku. O Sensei learnt many other styles to make Aikido.

I never intended this article to be a karate vs taekwondo, i found the above in the guiness book of records that belonged to my dad and found this liitle article about karate and the part that mentioned tae kwon do, It interests me how the martial arts has changed due to westernisation and time and it seems that tae kwon do has changed or splintered into different paths,but it doesnt mean tae kwon do as a whole has been watered down as I myself has seen some effective demonstrations of self defence from tae kwon do, In my opinion there is no bad martial art.

http://crane.50megs.com/index6j.htm A article about a very old Taji Quan master who defeats Mas Oyama the founder of kyokushinkai full contact karate. Good Read

Yer give us the name of the file, the size and file type if possible because I might have it somewhere on my comp.

the time the sensei turns 80 he will be a 24th dan lol.

could be christian tissier hes a 7th dan http://www.christiantissier.com/ http://website.lineone.net/~aiki/Images/tissier.mpeg

Run away and tell a teacher, but if you cant do that then dont do anything you will regret later.