People often will watch an Aikido demo and say, “Well it’s not realistic, you cooperated with him when he threw you!”
Hahaha, Of course I did!
My other option was to have my arm dislocated, possibly spiral-fractured (don’t google that), and then to land neck first on the ground with all of my body weight on top of my then-shattered vertebrae. Much safer to go along with it and roll.
Aikido “looks fake” because the people being tossed
protect themselves
from
the consequences of having all their momentum hurled into the ground,
along with squishy breakable anatomy.
We could resist More, yes, but it
would have bad results. we often do try to resist a bit to help our
partners practice against an unwilling opponent, but the result is
pretty much the same- Wowican’tbendthatwayTHUD…Tap!Tap!
I promise
you, if you learn to roll and fall correctly to protect your body, and
then get a Sensei to show you some Aikido, you will see how effective it
can be. Once your balance and momentum do not belong to you, you are
hurtling through the air whether you like it or not. And then you’re on
the ground wondering what the heck just happened. And all that happens
in less than a second. It’s really, really FUN.
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