World IBJJF Jiu Jitsu Championships

I got to meet all the greats including Jean Jacques Machado, Rickson Gracie, Tom Callos, & Marcelo Garcia.  I got to watch great matches including Kron and Kyra Gracie’s.  Although She didn’t win the gold, I was amazed by how she tapped her first opponent out in a minute and something seconds!  Along with Guro JC and I is Jethro Alcuaz, my Kali Method colleague who competes and represents Kali Method in BJJ competitions.  He said he’ll be competing next time around.

wasabicecream:

this picture depicts my idea of perfect amount of rice for every meal

Wow!!!  This is like a Filipino sized serving!  LOL

(via wasabiicecream)

I would love to have these for those kids who pick up avocados from our yard without permission.

humanmindinformaldehyde:

okinawanwarrior:

ms-tek:

ms-tek:

okinawanwarrior:

carwash-for-peace:

Top 10 Martial Arts for Self Defense. Aikido is #8 :)

http://listverse.com/2010/05/15/top-10-martial-arts-for-self-defense/

Western boxing being a better self defense art than karate? Wing chun? Jeet kune do? Aikido? I don’t…

It has nothing to do with retracting. Once you commit, if the Aikidoka knows what they are doing, it does not matter, esp with a Tskui strike or a Shomen strike. 8/10 times with strikes like that, body movement is going to go INTO the strike and avoid it at the same time, ending up to the side or behind the attacker.  I don’t care WHERE your strike ends or how long its there, if I see it coming you’ve already committed enough that I can defend against it or avoid it. We train in body movement first, joint locks and throws second.

I don’t want to get into a which is better but in MY experience with people coming to Aikido who have karate or TKD backgrounds, I always see them coming because of that millisecond that they are committing to strike lets me know where its coming from and I can go with it or avoid it.  I “blend” not block.

I understand where you are coming from, but I’m telling you I and my other fellow students have been training to not commit as much for that exact reason. So we don’t end up getting timed then a joint lock thrown onto us. He tell us exactly to not commit or the “bam bam people”(meaning aikido, jujitsu, judo) will take advantage. Like I said the way Okinawan karate and japanese karate throw their punches are very different. Maybe you have sparred with mainly Japanese style? Or maybe if they were okinawan style they were just committing more than usual.

Oh and just in case we do commit more than we intended to, we have also been trained to be able to blend or circle out of the possible coming counter attack or joint lock or throw. We train in hard and soft.

We train the Stances first, then blocks and strikes, then sensitivity.

To the Aikido-ka…why so much pride? The ones who talk the most usually have the most to prove. What do you have to prove over the internet? Humility is key, when it comes to the martial arts. As a person who takes Okinawan karate, we are trained to roll through with the throws, and understand where and how to strike, faster than you can grab. Now, I haven’t sparred you, so I can’t say. You can probably beat me. And that’s okay.

You see? That’s easy. Humility.

Again…  It’s about the person and not the style.

The only SPAM I like are the ones they put in Musubis.

How to make friends like you…  A lot…

My eyes are just gushing from all this laughter!  LOL