Martial Arts Videos

Roger Geertz Gonzalez (Sandan) and Keith Lit (2nd Kyu)
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Florida Aikikai Aikido Iriminage Kaeshiwaza Roger Geertz Gonzalez

[Atemi from a Bear Hug, from a 5th degree Aikido black belt and United States martial arts hall of fame]

Atemi is an Aikido striking technique. In the above video Atemi is done from a Bear Hug and attacks two points on an opponent. Atemi is the first thing to do for escaping from that kind of clinch.

A Bear hug, also known as a bodylock, is a grappling clinch hold and stand-up grappling position where the arms are wrapped around the opponent, either around the opponent’s chest, midsection, or thighs; sometimes with one or both of the opponents arms pinned to the opponent’s body. The hands are locked around the opponent and the opponent is held tightly to the chest. The bear hug is a dominant position, with great control over the opponent, and is often a precursor to a takedown.

Expert: Fred Mastison
Bio: Mastison Sensei is an inductee into the United States Martial Arts hall of fame and is a 5th degree black belt who has been active in the martial arts for over 35 years.
Filmmaker: Dustin Daniels

Tachi dori and Kumitachi – Polgár András 3rd dan Aikikai, Aikido Seminar in Hajduszoboszló (Zanshin Dojo), Hungary, 25-26th July 2009 (5/6)
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Tachi dori and Kumitachi – Polgár András 3rd dan Aikikai, Aikido Seminar in Hajduszoboszló (5/6)

4th International Friendship Aikido Winter Seminar with Georg Meindl 5th dan Aikikai (Austria, Slowakia, Hungary), Hungary, Sopron, February 2009, assistant teacher: Leonhard Meyer 3rd dan Aikikai
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Leonhard Meyer 3rd dan Aikikai – Aikido class in Hungary, Sopron

[Sensei Minoru Mochizuki's randori against many opponents]

Sensei Minoru Mochizuki was a Japanese martial artist who founded the dojo Yoseikan. He held the ranks 10th dan, aikido (International Martial Arts Federation); 9th dan, jujutsu; 8th dan, iaido; 8th dan, judo; 8th dan, kobudo; 5th dan, kendo; 5th dan, karate; 5th dan, jojutsu.

Born in 1907 (Shizuoka, Japan,) Mochizuki was one of the direct students of judo founder Jigoro Kano, aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba and Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate.

Minoru Mochizuki

Believing that the martial arts have become distorted by specialization into separate disciplines and transformation into sports, Mochizuki assembled the major techniques of the Japanese martial tradition into a single coherent structure. He oversaw the development of his system from his home in Shizuoka, Japan, where his dojo, the Yoseikan, was often visited by martial arts practitioners from all over the world. His art is currently practiced in 29 countries around the world, and in such diverse places as Australia and Algeria, where a recent clinic had 240 people in attendance. The organization continues to grow and expand to more countries each year. He died in Aix-en-Provence, France in 2003.

Mochizuki, began by training in kendo at the age of five, at his grandfather’s dojo in Shizuoka. Then he began Judo and joined the Kodokan in 1925 where he became an outstanding competitor. Under the tutelage of Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo, Mochizuki became the youngest member of the Kobudo Kenkyukai -- an organization for the study, preservation and development of classical martial arts -- established within the Kodokan. Here he practiced among others Katori Shinto-ryu. In 1930, he was sent by Jigoro Kano to study aikijujutsu with Morihei Ueshiba. He was the uchideschi of Morihei Ueshiba at the Kobukan dojo for one year before opening his own dojo in Shizuoka City in 1931.

He was awarded two Daito-Ryu scrolls by Ueshiba in June 1932 (“Goshinyo no te” and “Hiden ogi no koto”). Next, he spent eight years in Mongolia where he was named Second Governor. In Mongolia, he was also active as an educator and entrepreneur of projects to improve communications and irrigation. His idea of combating communism with the application of the principles of “mutual welfare and prosperity” and of “the best use of energy” of Jigoro Kano contributed to the development of his region. His irrigation project was even completed after the Second World War by the Chinese authorities. Minoru Mochizuki was the first to teach aikido in the West when he travelled in France from 1951 to 1953 as a judo teacher. He taught at his dojo of Shizuoka until nearly the end of the last millennium and spent the last years of his life in France with his son Hiroo.

Roger Geertz Gonzalez(Sandan) and Helen Reynolds (2nd Kyu) doing Kumi Tachi
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[Some simple techniques of self-defense from Aikido and Jujitsu]

[The aikido technique irimi nage in tanto dori (knife defense) by aikido instructor Stefan Stenudd, 6 dan Aikikai]

In the video above, irimi nage, (in english “entering throw”) is done against some different knife attacks. It is very difficult to learn a reliable defense against knife attacks and there are many strong opinions on how it should be done.

More on aikido and tanto dori at website:
http://www.stenudd.com/aikido

[Special Aikido lesson / demonstration by Christian Tissier Shihan]

Adan Cortes and Lionel Ehinger, from the Queretaro Aikikai dojo performing a few shomen and yokomen uchi techniques. www.queretaroaikikai.com
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