There’s already a bunch of comments criticising your technique, as always 🙄

I’m glad you’re one of those who understand the efficacy of aikido for street self defense. People love to mock aikido practitioners, such as Steven Segal, but those who know how to apply aikido are formidable opponents.

I enjoy this mindset: a martial art works for fighting if you practice using it for fighting. If you practice for choreography or meditation, then that’s what you can do, but if you practice for fighting, then fighting is what you’ll get in action.

I just wanna give props to the student. A lot of people won't realize this but when coach was using takedown techniques he was instinctively defending himself in a correct manner. A lot of people who are not trained would instinctively try to get out and get up immediately leaving themselves open. Yes rolls are easy to recognize as a skill but what I am talking about can't be learned by just practice and you gotta learn it in an actual fight or sparring session with someone who knows what they are doing and will punish you to establish correct getting up instinct with guard up and trying to slide away instead of just trying to get up hands being occupied with your own weight and being as defenseless as a baby.

This was a joy to watch. Your explanations are clear and your execution is top tier. I find aikido techniques can be deceptive in that they can seem simple, but there are a lot of fine details to making them work.

The way you're doing Kote Gaeshi is very much how most modern Japanese Jujutsu schools teach this technique. Bravo sir!

This is really good.  Aikido needs more of this.

You rock coach. I train BJJ (last few years) but I'm a 5th Dan in Hapkido & 1st Dan in Taiho Jutsu.  I think this is the best "Aiki" / "Hapki" tutorial on YouTube. This is the only practical way to make your "Aiki" work with a resisting opponent.   I've been a cop for 26 years and have used my Hapkido in the real world for years.  Coach Ramsey, you did it again.  GREAT video brother!

This is basically how Hapkido explains the Aikido style techniques. The way you continue with a mistake into different options instead of stalling out and trying again is also how we do things in Hapkido. Only difference would be we try to force them into squaring up a bit more. Drag the wrist down below your waist as you pivot and then bring it across the waist in an armbar. Don't give them any option but to square up.

Did.. did you just legitimated aikido? There was something poetic about this video. Your love for martial arts is REAL and it shows. Amazing video.

I’m not really into martial arts that much anymore. I really just enjoy listening to Ramsey talk.

My family were all wrestlers in high school, and my siblings did Kuk Sool Won while my father and I did aikido.

We traded ideas often.  

My dad gave us an idea for kind of drill that he got from wrestling when he was younger. We taped our hands so that you couldn’t grab as articulately and with your thumb like you normally would. This teaches you to control by just pushing and putting pressure. You never “grab” the other guy. My dad used to joke that he would close his eyes during wrestling matches because he didn’t need them.

I wonder if that’s something that might actually benefit aikido practitioners abroad, so they aren’t such a joke. A lot of the moves seem like they have some validity, but they are practiced with low athleticism, low aggression, and without skepticism.  

Maybe one of the reasons why it seemed like it worked for Ueshiba’s disciples is because many of them were actually very high-level judo practitioners. Many of them apparently had a cursory understanding of striking as well.

It may be as simple as that aikido is not an introductory martial art

(from a guy who hasn’t done martial arts in 18 years 😅🤷)

Ah yes, Kotegaeshi, my favorite grappling technique of all time....saying that "in public" is hard haha, because it gets associated with aikido and therefor must suck...even though it's a totaly fine lower precentage technique🤷‍♂️

A lot of aikido moves are present in catch wrestling ( especially wrist manipulations) so some techniques works.

Great video Ramsey. What you said in the video about sparring and competing is right on the mark. It's very sad that I can spank all these aikido guys because they don't do anything that resembles sparring in their class. I do tomiki aikido which means I spar regularly and I compete in tournaments. When I crosstrain in other arts I'm able to pull off aikido moves against other people no problem but I wonder if I would be able to do the same thing if I I didn't do tomiki style.

Ramsey, thank you. For me this kind of breakdown are gold, gems. So high in value.
I will start going out there and train more.

Two more details:
1) most amateurs trying to do a wristlock try grabbing the wrist directly, but starting with the arm and then sliding down is so much easier.
2) You can hyperextend the elbow in the set up and after the technique you get another chance of doing damage to the joints. That's three opportunities in one technique!

Thank you for this video :) After many years of training aikido, and then a few of kickboxing, nowadays I think about aikido techniques in a similar manner. I still like to train long, complicated versions of them - because they both look pretty and because I can study all the details while doing them - but I always have in mind how they can be simplified to their basics and used in less controlled situations in self-defense.

Amazing. I drilled this exact stuff. My teacher called it karate-jutsu. I heard of Aiki-jutsu as well. I train bjj now and instead of pulling guard I will try incorprate this in my standing game! Thank you. I thought in bjj "aikido" was almost perceived as an insult... Thank you for the smoothe demo!

The only way to test Aikido techniques  to there full potential is  practice in competive format. As a Tomiki Aikidoka we train to apply techniques against a non compliant partner in a Randori situation. We also play with Judo waza as well. Great video.

my papa, steve rodgers, was a brown belt of taekwondo and trained under troy dorsey, a black belt in judo under carl geiss, and a fourth degree black belt in aikido under nick lowery. he taught me all that i know about softness into my wrestling, and aikido is very applicable to fencing.