Brian Kagen’s pick: “Attack of the Living Dead”,

From the Mokuren Dojo blogspot:

“…One common complaint about aikido as a system of self-defense is that it looks like the uke attacks like an idiot and then jumps onto the ground to make tori look good. Sure enough, if you check out aikido demos on Google or Youtube, uke is often either running blindly at tori or is lurching slowly forward like a monster in a 1950’s movie, giving an extended arm to tori to do with as he pleases. You even occasionally see videos of Doshu or of the various “old school” “hard style” aikido folks in which ukes attack like brainless zombies. Honestly, Doesn’t it look like Frank is about to execute kotegaeshi in the picture?”

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August 27^th, 2007 (add comment)