{"id":134,"date":"2013-03-31T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackswordaikido.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2020-09-21T10:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:08:18","slug":"aikido-grappling-with-unreality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackswordaikido.com\/2013\/03\/31\/aikido-grappling-with-unreality\/","title":{"rendered":"Aikido-Grappling With Unreality"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I now get calls asking, “Do you teach grappling?”
\nThis reminds me of years ago when I was training in Aikido and one of my dear
\nfriends and teachers, Fred Wagstaff, would get a call, “Do you teach monkey-bite
\nkung fu?” His response would be, “Sure! Come on down!” I should adopt Fred’s
\nresponse, but the follow-up question always leads to the crucial issues, “Do
\nyou, like, roll around on the ground a lot?” My response is usually, “As little
\nas possible.”
\nLet’s face it, any complete martial art has to have three components: striking,
\ngrappling, and locking. Black Sword Aikido certainly has a striking component,
\natemi waza being the heart of Black Sword Aikido, as it was the heart of Ueshiba
\nAikido. The locks are clear, with the restoration of Aikido joint locks to make
\nthem more efficient and the addition of a plethora of Chin Na locks. Black Sword
\nAikido prefers to grapple in the upright position and to throw and pin at https:\/\/xn--trdlsa-hrlurar-mib8ye.se\/<\/a>.
\nBrazilian Jujitsu prefers to grapple in the supine position. The advantage of
\ngrappling in the upright position is that you can deal more effectively with
\nother attackers, and you won’t have your head kicked in by one person, as you
\nroll around on the ground with another person. Lastly, it’s dirty down there,
\nthere’s uncomfortable curb stones, broken glass, and dog doo.
\nBrazilian Jujitsu’s preference for supine grappling is obvious, it’s Judo! World
\nclass Judo, Judo performed by very skilled athletes, but Judo, nevertheless. It
\ntroubles me to see how little respect some of its practitioners have for the
\nJapanese and how little they attribute their martial art to their Japanese
\nteachers. I have no problem acknowledging my Japanese and Chinese teachers. Just
\nas Brazilian Jujitsu prefers to grapple in the supine position, you will note
\nthat it prefers to lock in a supine position, as well. Judo, once again. If you
\nwatch the UFC matches, you will see that the traditional interrelatedness of
\nstriking, grappling, and locking remain constant. The defense to striking is
\ngrappling. The defense to grappling is locking. The defense to locking is
\nstriking.
\nThere are, of course, other problems with Brazilian Jujitsu and the UFC. First,
\nthe rules of the UFC prevent biting or eye gouging. This has to be because I
\ndoubt many professionals would risk blindness and disfigurement, nor would
\npay-for-view show it. However, the obvious defense to prevent someone with whom
\nyou are rolling around on the ground with from choking you or locking your
\njoints, is to attack the eyes or bite their arm. In a real life confrontation on
\nthe street, your attacker may not be so kind as to refrain from this. Secondly,
\nthe length of time that it takes to subdue someone by rolling around on the
\nground with them. And, incidentally, needless to say, rolling around on the
\nground with someone is a one-on-one confrontation and is useless in defending
\nagainst more than one attacker. But to return to the time limit, to have as the
\nbasis of your system that it may take twenty minutes to overcome your attacker
\nis a great weakness. It would be useless in a battlefield confrontation, useless
\nin a police situation, useless anywhere other than in a pit fight, or a sporting
\nevent. You’ll notice how integral it is to the system that it is anticipated
\nthat it will take a long time to subdue your opponent, that when the time limit
\nwas imposed on the UFC, Rorion Gracie stopped fighting and sold his interest.
\nYou will note that the rules in the UFC have been changed and now the
\ncontestants are permitted to roll around on the ground for only a limited time
\nand then are returned to an upright position. This is because, from a marketing
\nviewpoint, it’s boring. This is the same trouble that wrestling had when it was
\nintroduced in the first part of the century and wrestling and boxing were equal
\ndraws. Boxing caught on because there was action. Wrestling did not because the
\naudience grew bored of watching someone hold another person in a head lock for
\ntwo hours. Consequently, the only thing left of wrestling as a commercial
\nenterprise today is championship wrestling, which is a demonstration with plenty
\nof action, not a contest.
\nIn any event, the answer is “Yes, we do teach grappling, but not Judo
\ngrappling.” This makes sense because we’re Black Sword Aikido, not Judo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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