Aikido( A Techno-Okie, Highly Edumucated, explanation)

  There is a lot of talk about efficiency in the martial arts.  I never cared for the word efficient.  Being a working class dude, I always had some suit telling me to be more efficient,, organized, and manage my time better.  It all amounted to paying me minimum wage and wanting me to work myself to death.  I never really cared for the word Uke (it sounds funny), or connection either.  The uke is the pretend,reusable, bad guy with an owners manual that you go out to lunch with, a real bad guy is a disposable bad guy, or the Asshole.  I don't want to connect with an Asshole. If you do, then that's your personal business.  I don't want to connect with a guy and feel his effing center.  I just want him to go away and stay away. 

 In Aikido you have to have some asshole help you kick his ass.  Assholes tend to start shit..  Often times they start shit and bite off more than they can chew.  This biting off more than they can chew comes in the form of missteps, stumbles, and wobbles.   Aikido dudes study and practice taking advantage of the missteps, stumbles, and wobbles.

When someone starts shit, you finish shit.   Finishing shit is what we commonly called a technique.   

Three methods of finishing shit. 

Knocking his ass down(throwing):  when guy A pushes or pulls guy B and Guy A falls flat on his ass, or face. The closer you get to the ass/face paradigm, the more efficient you are with your technique. It helps if the other guy wants to fall on his Ass/Face, or really deserves to fall on his ass/face. A lot of training deals with recognizing when you have enough  tori/uke energy(also called Taking Shit TS) to enter the Ass/Face paradigm (AFP ).   

Convincing him to knock his ass down(joint locks):  When your TS meter is at the max but you aint got a total AFP, planned or serendipitous( AKA Dumb Ass Luck  DAL) hand placement  could allow a joint lock .  It is also highly dependent on the reaction known as  the Deep Shit Reaction  (DSR).  DSR is a highly subjective state.   The key is  that the asshole subjectively feeling like he is in deepshit.  If he's crazy or on dope, he may not be able to  feel a damned thing.   
  Here's a NIKYO.  You can be the judge  on the DAL factor of this.  Normally, the discriminating gentleman wants to avoid jointlocks with a high DAL factor. 
                                                     


Beating his ass down (Atemi/striking):

This has always been a point of conjecture in Tommy Key Aikido.  Morty was quoted to say that X% of Aikido is atemi.  X has been placed at somewhere between 70 and 80 cents worth to the Aikido whole dollar.  The rule of thumb is don't hit a guy with anything that is easy to break. Fists seem to break easy, especially when you pound on coconuts.  Although, Morty is photographed hitting a guys short ribs instead of his coconut.  So fists and ribcages seem to be a rule of thumb.   Anyway, Shomenate is basically an educated man's palm heel strike.  Elbows and forearms seem pretty durable.  I like a good backfist, but I think a backhand is a bit safer.  Atemi occurs when you ain't quite ready to Take Shit(TS).  Atemi allows you to take shit that is acceptable.  Its a shit regulator if you will. 


Here's morty.  A lot of modern internet primates call his demonstration bullshit. it either revolves around "nobody can take that much shit".  Or "that shit" would never work. 

 

Realistically,  Aikido comes from Daito Ryu.  And Daito Ryu teaches you how to take "ancient shit"   By Ancient Shit, I'm saying, shogun shivs, hand grabs, kimono grabs, and simulated sword yoko ono strikes.  It informs us about how to handle and take modern shit.    After all shit is shit, no matter what century you live in.