Hi!
I've been practicing aikido for 3 years. I love aikido, but I hate the way most people practice it, including our club. Our instructors focus so much on "softness" and "harmony" that they forget it's supposed to work in combat.
I am dedicated to making my aikido work , so I ask my attackers to resist my techniques and counter them if they can, to learn effectiveness. I also resist if I can when instructors or advanced students perform techniques on me. The instructors seem to get annoyed by my attitude and it's causing me to really lose interest in training.
I've been careful not to appear disrespectful towards the instructors, but I'm running out of patience. Is it worth being respectful if it's ruining aikido for me? I believe I'm not the only one who started training to learn self defence, and I don't think it's fair to waste people's time or give them false promises. A lot of students (beginners particularly) seem to enjoy training with me, as I try to show them that aikido can actually work if you train that way. A lot of people quit after showing up a few times, obviously convinced aikido is not the way to learn real self defence. Which really provokes me!
I also hate how the instructors use up our time on stretching and warmup. We usually have 2 hours at our disposal, a lot of times a full hour will be spent on stretching (before practice?!), then we do excercises (like holdning contact, without actually doing techniques), practice falling technique, and sometimes we end up with 15-20 minutes (!!!) of actually doing techniques.
Is it just me or is this really unfair to people who invest their time in learning self defence?
A lot of times I've shown up late to skip the excessive warmup part (sometimes we literally just stand there breathing), but it makes me even more unpopular with the instructors...
I don't know what's the right thing to do... I love aikido, and I've already invested so much time in it, should I accept that I'm the victim of this, and just quit? Or should I keep doing things my way even though it's making me unpopular?
Unfortunately, switching club is not an option for me...
Really looking forward to hearing your opinions on this. :)
I've been practicing aikido for 3 years. I love aikido, but I hate the way most people practice it, including our club. Our instructors focus so much on "softness" and "harmony" that they forget it's supposed to work in combat.
I am dedicated to making my aikido work , so I ask my attackers to resist my techniques and counter them if they can, to learn effectiveness. I also resist if I can when instructors or advanced students perform techniques on me. The instructors seem to get annoyed by my attitude and it's causing me to really lose interest in training.
I've been careful not to appear disrespectful towards the instructors, but I'm running out of patience. Is it worth being respectful if it's ruining aikido for me? I believe I'm not the only one who started training to learn self defence, and I don't think it's fair to waste people's time or give them false promises. A lot of students (beginners particularly) seem to enjoy training with me, as I try to show them that aikido can actually work if you train that way. A lot of people quit after showing up a few times, obviously convinced aikido is not the way to learn real self defence. Which really provokes me!
I also hate how the instructors use up our time on stretching and warmup. We usually have 2 hours at our disposal, a lot of times a full hour will be spent on stretching (before practice?!), then we do excercises (like holdning contact, without actually doing techniques), practice falling technique, and sometimes we end up with 15-20 minutes (!!!) of actually doing techniques.
Is it just me or is this really unfair to people who invest their time in learning self defence?
A lot of times I've shown up late to skip the excessive warmup part (sometimes we literally just stand there breathing), but it makes me even more unpopular with the instructors...
I don't know what's the right thing to do... I love aikido, and I've already invested so much time in it, should I accept that I'm the victim of this, and just quit? Or should I keep doing things my way even though it's making me unpopular?
Unfortunately, switching club is not an option for me...
Really looking forward to hearing your opinions on this. :)
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