Channel: Martial Arts Journey

Category: Sports

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Description: As a former Aikido instructor I decided to react to my old self defense video even though it's embarassing to watch. 00:00 My story as a former Aikido instructor 01:03 What happens if you teach bad self defense 01:47 Making excuses to convince myself 02:17 Can Aikido principles save Aikido? 02:39 Unrealistic attacks in Aikido? 02:56 How I taught knife defense 03:42 Principles vs Techniques 04:08 Maybe I wasn't so wrong? 05:19 Disabling the attacker as quick as possible? 05:46 Did I show a better example? 06:42 Was my self defense video better than I thought? 06:52 A problem with most martial arts 07:19 Never testing my martial art 07:52 Do you question your martial art enough? --- Welcome to the Martial Arts Journey YouTube channel! My name is Rokas. I'm a Lithuanian guy who trained Aikido for 14 years, 7 of them running a professional Aikido Dojo until eventually I realized that Aikido does not live up to what it promises. Lead by this realization I decided to make a daring step to close my Aikido Dojo and move to Portland, Oregon for six months to start training MMA at the famous Straight Blast Gym Headquarters under head coach Matt Thornton. After six months intensive training I had my first amateur MMA fight after which I moved back to Lithuania. During all of this time I am documenting my experience through my YouTube channel called "Martial Arts Journey". Now I am slowly setting up plans to continue training MMA under quality guidance and getting ready for my next MMA fight as I further document and share my journey and discoveries. --- If you want to support my journey, you can make a donation to my PayPal at info@rokasleo.com SUBSCRIBE to see when the next videos will come out: ► bit.ly/1KPZpv0 Check the video "Aikido vs MMA" which started this whole Martial Arts Journey: ► youtu.be/0KUXTC8g_pk If you want to support me and this channel on a regular basis check my Patreon page: ► patreon.com/rokasleo #aikido #selfdefense #martialarts