Aikido often has a mixed or even negative reputation, especially between practitioners
of MMA and BJJ.
Having practiced Aikido for more than a decade, and for years being a loyal student, in the
beginning I used to misunderstand the reason for this negativity and hatred.
Only years after, I realized why this is truly happening, and that dramatically changed my
approach and understanding of Aikido and it's situation.
Hi, my name is Rokas, and in this Martial Arts Journey video we'll take a look at
one of the reasons behind the negative reputation of Aikido between modern combat sports practitioners.
As we practice martial arts and combat sports, we all have our stages.
We often begin by having unconscious bias of loving our practice and believing that
it is the best.
If lucky, we then gradually move to a conscious bias, of understanding why we prefer our practice,
instead of others, and eventually the next step of maturity is being able to recognize
the flaws and reality behind our practice, and appreciating it for what it is, while
respecting other arts as well.
Unfortunately, not everyone is able to move along these stages, even after training for
years.
In my initial stage of practicing Aikido, I was told by my instructor that it is the
purest martial art of them all, mainly because of it's sophisticated and peaceful philosophy.
While other martial arts were accepted in my first Dojo, there was a somewhat negative
view on combat sports, as if they were meant for less "sophisticated" people, or to
put it simply "meatheads" of martial arts.
Looking up highly to my instructor, and having no experience in combat sports, I believed
that to be true, and while I never put too much attention to this thought, part of me
was proud to be "above" the "dirty and unsophisticated" practices and people.
Knowing that I am "up to something better" than they are.
As I moved on to the next Dojo - a similar type of mentality in regards to combat sports
was felt, although not spoken as openly.
Yet cross training in combat sports was not suggested what so ever, since "it would
ruin the understanding of the pure Aikido philosophy.", thus I kept avoiding any combat
sports practices, continuing to believe that Aikido is the best, that it is all that is
necessary and if I would practice other, more combat oriented practices - my practice would
suffer because of it.
At the same time, I knew that Aikido had a bad rep online between combat sports practitioners,
and the discussions about the reason behind it would normally sound like: "well, they
just don't understand the practice of Aikido and they dislike it because they are not mature
enough to understand the subtle approach and philosophy of this art.".
While in Aikido there is normally no competition, the hatred towards it was also a quote on
quote "good example" of how "competition breeds bad attitude and arrogance".
Again, having little exposure to these practices, I tended to believe that.
Only when I was already running my Dojo and I met a BJJ practitioner who convinced me
to try rolling with him, and eventually to train together, after many talks I started
to see how vast and amazing the combat sports world is.
Talking to him I saw nothing but respect and curiosity.
When I met his gym buddies, I had pretty much the same impression, and I was left wondering:
so where are all these combat sports meatheads that I was told about?
When considering then, why Aikido was disliked by combat sports practitioners, I thought
- maybe it's because Aikido is not really as practical in the realm of fighting as their
practices.
Eventually, another big exposure happened.
Tired of some Aikido people believing that "Aikido is too deadly for MMA", or that
"Aikido people do not go to MMA not because it wouldn't work, but because it's philosophy
of "not fighting" prevents them from it", I went to prove that Aikido actually doesn't
work, by filming the "Aikido vs MMA" video.
Filming it, was my first great direct exposure to mixed martial arts.
I was ready to get a black eye and lose some teeth, expecting the MMA guy to be this ruthless,
arrogant, disrespectful and uncaring person, as I was told about "people like him",
who would beat the hell out of me given the opportunity to prove that Aikido doesn't
work.
To my great surprise, this MMA guy was one of the nicest people I've met, and he took
great care
of
me during my first sparring experience!
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GOOGLE Home has received a huge new update that will make the smart speaker even smarter
thanks to some new useful functionality.
Google Home is an incredibly useful piece of hardware that allows users to control connected
aspects of their home with their voice.
However, one of the device's most useful features is its ability to create routines.
This allows lights to be turned on or off, or home temperatures to be adjusted with a
command.
The tech giant initially split routines into six categories: good morning, bedtime, leaving
home, I'm home, commuting to work and commuting home.
Google Home's handy functionality meant owners could choose to turn their phone off silent
as soon as they woke up or even adjust its volume.
The tech giant also allowed for custom routines to be created and for several wishes to be
granted at once with one voice command.
But now Google has given smart speaker lovers the ability to schedule routines for specific
times, greatly increasing the usefulness of the device when users are not able to give
a direct voice command.
The new functionality means Google Home could turn off lights in your home, assuming they
are compatible with the smart speaker, after you have gone to bed.
Droid Life said it spotted Home owners discussing the silently-released new feature on Reddit.
It then tested the feature for itself and noticed it was able to choose and time and
day for specific routines.
Users can make use of the new feature by going into the settings menu on the Google Home
app and pressing the "+" button.
This will create a new routine and take you to a menu featuring an option to "choose a
time for this routine".
This allows the user to put in the command they want to trigger the routine or the time
and days it should occur on.
After Google Home completes a routine it will let the user know by pushing a notification
to their phone.
Unfortunately, the tech giant's smart speaker is only available to offer routine functions
in the US.
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