http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aJv48aVUko...feature=related

Aikido + blue gi = me no likee. No s'plain why. Just lookee funnie. But ok for judo! Then look gud!

(no: they're my drugs and I don't feel like sharing)

Anyway...aikido in blue gi with patches? Very...hmm. Interesting clip

Different look is what they seem to be going for. Nice rapid exibition of the art. Why were the two women put in black gis though? Their blonde hair color stood out, but green is a better color for blondes and there are green gis..

No idea sir. I'm feeling michevious and mainly post it to irritate CK, whom is a cyanophobe

Though I hear he likes blonds just fine

they were blue to distinguish their 'hard'ness.

plus it's the color of tough guys in France.

I can't tell: are we still talking about Smurfs here? I mean, there *was* only 1 female smurf...

You ... irritate me ? But, I like you. You are supercute.

I am not a cyanophobe. As a child I chose to have my bedroom painted blue, and I like women with blue eyes. In judo, I like Yves Klein, the French judoist and famous artist who developed International Klein Blue, a flashy type of ultramarine blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue.

And I liked the Blue Man and Fantomas. The only thing I do not like are ... blue gi and blue balls.

Its not the colour that bothers me... its he fact that they do some very wrong things in the demo... the multiple attcker defense for one... there are instances where the defender turns his back to them... but it was a cool demo for the most part, easy to watch at least.

thtas "real" aikido - thats the name of that art, not a fact

Great demo, now I know exactly what to do when someone runs at me fast with their arms out in front of them.

You mean like in the ufc when one guy is going forward alternating with left and right jabs and the other is just baking away and covering his head? thats easy... taisabaki to the side or irimi

So if its so easy......how come we don't see exactly that in UFC? these guys aren't stupid.

I contend that many aikido techniques (at least the flashy ones beloved of demos) depend on Uke rushing Tori with a great deal of momentum (and inability to change directions) that Tori easily capitalizes upon.

Problem is, an experienced opponent isn't going to give you that amount of momentum; there is a lot of difference between rushing in like an olympic sprinter carrying an invisible tea tray and a carefully paced advance thowing short straight jabs. Aikido guy may be able to take an arm, but boxer guy has got two hands and if he's careful he is still pretty well balanced and able to throw that cross....

Whenever I see these sorts of demonstrations I think of the proverb: "Fools rush in..."

in demos you basicly see the sort of technique used for demos, i know that some styles... or rather some teachers of some styles, like tissier and others like to do the flasshy stuff, because thats what sells to uninformed people, but you should know that most aikido techniques dont require an oponent running at you nor open hands or grabs to work, they have paralel techniques for conter striking, punches, kicks, chokes, etc, you just dont see them in demos. in demos you rarelly see a good use of mahai, and other components of aikido, the carrying of the invisible tray has you called it is frowned upon by most good masters i know\study http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQA0rCPXess...feature=related is what i think to be a good example, keepig in mind some moves are exageretaed and others reduced, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyYFLntNWpA...feature=related other examples, other things to keep in mind, most of the technique originate in strikes thrown by shite, not uke... in thesse example we only see the technique, not the begining , the "provocation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyYFLntNWpA...ature=related... just a few examples.

now has to the ufc guys being fools or not, they have a system, a method of training, whatever steps of the norm is frowned upon or doesnt have awnsers, take the example of lyoto machida has to what works or doesnt work in a cage.