I hate that bullshido is right about sparring and competition. Hate really isn’t the right word. The word “bother” is closer to the word I’m trying to describe. For years bullshido members have argued with people online that competition and sparring will improve your martial art skills combined with whatever your doing.
When I was younger I mentioned to my father that I was changing martial art schools because the school I was going to didn’t spar. He said you don’t have to fight to learn how to fight. I ignored him and changed martial art schools and am happy with my decision.
I found this youtube video of this aikido black belt demonstrating doing aikido against bjj practioners. They were all white belts. The ones he could pull off aikido against anyway. He couldn’t pull off aikido moves against the higher belts. I was like wtf? I’ve done aikido against higher belts in bjj class so why can’t this guy do the same? I know I’m a tomiki practioner but it’s still shocking to me.
There’s something else I don’t know how to explain it properly. There’s this technique in aikido called ikkyo. It’s the main style of aikido’s bread and butter. They train it alot. And when I mean alot I mean alot. The guy I’m talking about never used ikkyo in the bjj videos. I use it all the time in bjj class. So I was surprised he wasn’t. I understand martial arts and why doing randori in aikido class would teach me to do ikkyo in a live situation more than he does but it still shocks me. Judo and tomiki aikido use the word randori to describe their sparring. I know this is a martial art site and most people reading this know this but I wanted to point it out incase there’s someone who doesn’t.
I remember reading somewhere that there was a jujutsu school in Jigoro Kano’s time that didn’t do randori and the other schools laughed at them. So this is a problem that goes back centuries apparently.
