Aikido Ukemi Build Up - A New Approach • Martial Arts Journey
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- Aikido Ukemi is a complicated practice, yet up to now there was no step-by-step system developed to help an aikido practitioner to learn it easily. This was present my attempt to bring an ukemi build up which may make ukemi more accessible and easier to master for everyone.
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Please please please please film the rest of the sequences. I learned Hapkido a little bit and it had rolls in it but just like you said only the talented people would pick it up first. So not being one it took me 4yrs to pick up jumping front rolls but after much trial and many errors and persistent shoulder pain I am just able to do it. So please show us the entire sequence so that we get a chance to learn as well. Thank you.
Please please please please do the rest of these! Falling is by far the most practical skill that any martial arts teaches! many many people go through their whole lives never having to fight for their life, no one goes through their whole lives without falling. We All Fall many times when we didn't want to, and I know many people who have been hospitalized from Falls as I'm sure everyone does. Whatever may happen with Aikido, you have excellent experience and insight into the number one practical skill that will save people from getting hurt from all walks of life in every different culture. Please don't let that be passed up. It's easy to get caught up in the more exciting and flashy things, but there is no more useful physical skill in any martial art on the planet. Please put this entire curriculum out for everyone to see if you are willing!!!
Learning how to fall properly should definitely be taught in primary schools. It is one of those things we all will have to deal with at some point, and the difference between knowledge and ignorance may be a severe injury. It is the most usefull and directly appliable technique I learned practicing aikido and it has come in really handy more than once
Please continue this! Learning to fall safely is a part of many martial arts.
Rokas, what a wonderful aikido teacher you have been! It's a pity you left...
I began my martial art journey with karate at 40; after the Black belt I moved to aikido. I hope to pass the shodan exam next summer at 59...
But I definitely need to improve my ukemi skills, and your video on the CZcams channel are very inspirational. I'll also try the online course on Udemi platform.
My best wishes for your journey!
Samuele
It has really been great watching you traverse your martial arts journey, but I do still really love these Aikido videos. I really enjoyed this video a lot, and I would definitely love to see the rest of the series!
Thank you for being honest with us and with yourself!
I once joined an Aikido club 10 years ago. All pumped up I paid 1 month and bought the uniform. The head instructor says do a forward roll , from a standing position, I said I don’t know how. He said you just do it, but I don’t know how . Last class in Aikido
. Now I am a Black Belt in Krav Maga. The instructor there showed me exactly how to roll.
Finely!.. You have come full circle, back to the beginning ( the basis) .Alway begin and end with the basis.welcome to beginning tumbling .
Make a full video and sell it. I think the market would be pretty big. Thanks again.
I have improved my techniques thanks to your videos, thank you very much for devoting part of your time to the realization of these tutorials
Thank you, for this latest video--and all the other videos--you have produced. In the field of education, this method of breaking down a task into intermediary steps is called scaffolding. Just as a house painter uses a scaffold around the house he is painting, to make the task more possible to accomplish, your method of breaking down ukemi into more-easily-done steps makes aikido ukemi much more doable. I pray for your martial arts journey to be successful and hope that it will lead you towards reopening your dojo, in the not-to-distant future. You are a person who makes a difference.
Thank you
I don't really teach grappling arts, but I've practiced hapkido a bit. I picked up rolls immediately, and have never known how to teach other people very well. Thanks for this, Rokas! It's a good approach to breaking it into steps.
Thanks! Yes, it's interesting that there is a gap to fill between doing and teaching, for all of us
I was so absorbed for the whole "Does Aikido work" debate for the last year that I totally forgot I first met your channel when I was looking for a method to improve my breakfall. Actually, Your method was the first nice method i found for a tall guy like me learning the featherfall. Your featherfall is awesome, man! Mine has a lot to improve yet because I started to look for other answers in martial arts world and put my ukemi practices aside for a while. So you helped me to see things differently, but you fucked up with my featherfall ukemi. Lol :)
Would definitely like to see more of this to help my 5 year old at home learn the basics as she is struggling to get it in class
Craig Fisk I started working on a slow progression of falling with my son when he was about three days old. Obviously I wasn’t having him fall on his own, but I would hold him and fall softly into the couch and make sure that his body went to the correct arc to get him used to the movement. Now, at 1 1/2 his falls still aren’t technical in anyway, But he is very outgoing so some days he will give impromptu following demonstrations and if I decide to do it he’ll always happily join in. My goal was to teach him to be comfortable with the general idea of following correctly before he ever learn to walk and I think it worked out pretty well. All that to say, there never too young to work with them at home on break falls which is without a doubt the most important physical aspect of any martial art
Thank you for creating this very instructional and helpful video. I'm currently learning jumping rolls and soft high falls, but the basics shown here are helping me improve my foundation. Please please film the rest of the sequence if possible!
just found out the channel, i trained aikido as a kid reached green belt at the age of 13 i think. Our teacher believed in evolving aikido and mixing it up with other techniques from other MA. We did a presentation once in front of other schools and a 10th dan (if i m not mistaken) french "sensei" who snubbed us for using other techniques and not sticking to real aikido. I quit shortly after that and i regret wasting those years learning aikido instead of judo or MMA which i later did.
These "rolls" are basic part of training in my school. We call them break falls. My teacher makes sure we know how to fall and recover from being thrown. This is a good lesson that you are sharing.
Thank you
Martial Arts Journey I plan on doing a video, and would love to share it with you
Sure thing. Give me the link when you are ready
I'll NEVER EVER stop saying that you're great and great channel ♥️
Very useful, I wish I knew this when I did rolling about 30 years ago.
Great video. It's really similar to the way I teach the parkour roll. Doesn't surprise me, since your ukemi videos have really influenced me in the past. Sadly, some students will still have trouble getting it, no matter how much you break it down into smaller and smaller pieces. It will come with practice eventually, so preventing injuries is important.
Best wishes for your new beginning!
Please film more! Ukemi is such an important aspect of many martial arts and as a "not very talented" person myself, the extra steps to help develop the moves are extremely helpful!!
Alright, I will :) One more thing, the people who are not talented tend to become the best teachers. I was not talented myself :)
Of course you should extend the videos, your very knowledgeable
Keep up the great work.
Thank You
Hi. Thank you so much for the videos, helping beginners in Aikido who are struggling and are slower in learning and picking new things.
This is very good! Please do film the whole series if you can. I hope you will return to teaching in the future, but if you don't, then this series of exercises, based on this first set, will nevertheless be a valuable contribution to the aikido world. As you say, many of the basic principles involved and learned will apply to other areas of aikido, and to other martial arts as well.
On CZcams, we can find a number of good ukemi progressions, and some are fairly close to this one, but yours stands out for how much it breaks down to simple stages manageable even for beginners.
Interestingly, in my solo practice, I've experimented with a backward roll starting lying on my back, as in one of your final exercises. Seeing you do the same as part of this progression makes me feel vindicated. (My experiment was inspired by thinking of the need for more options if one is approached by an aggressor while lying down, say at a beach; that it can be useful in a progession is even better.)
Lots of perfect little cues to be able to get past stumbling blocks, bad form and uncoordinated students.
I would love to see the rest because I plan on using this as a resource. It gets hard to teach something you’re just able to do and have hardwired into your body. Thanks for the video and good luck on your journey
Thank you. Yes, learning something to do just by doing gives creates quite the barrier when we then have to teach someone who is not able to do it whatsover :) I hope this helps
Great stuff. Many thanks for posting this.
Thank you very much for the great info and sharing your ukemi build-up system. I believe introducing these techniques gradually to build up confidence and skill is one of the most important aspects when introducing new students to this practice. I'd love to see the rest of the system so hope you'll film and share them :-)
Please do the remainder of the ukemi series. I started watching your channel because of your ukemi tutorials. I’m a long time practitioner, but I need strategies or exercises to improve and to help teach beginners.
P.S. I’ve enjoyed watching your journey.
Thank you! Will do!
This is great, Rokas, thanks.
Love it! Very interested in the whole system you have developed! Apparently I have a high kenetic intelligence so I have struggled teaching ukemi to those less talented. Or course, we always teach the way we were taught. Love the way you break it down. Never thought to assemble many of the exercises you demonstrate into a comprehensive system of learning Ukemi step by step. Kudos!!! You are clearly a talented teacher and I'm sure your students will miss you!!!
Thank you! It is such a good point your are making that when we learn something through talent it is so difficult then to teach it to others. As long as there is a sincere attempt though, I'm sure it's fixable :)
When I started aikido, I had a swollen shoulder for a month. Gotta love those forward rolls when you don’t know how to do it...
every style should learn ukemi,its one of the most useful things, in your life you are more likely to fall over than get attacked. i've just started teaching ukemi to my 7 year old grandson, so i'll try this approach and see how it goes.
My first lesson in Aikido was to get in line during the warm up and do rolls forward and backward from standing along with everybody else from standing, and all the time i was their that never changed. might explain why student retention was low, and it closed after 5-6 years.
Hi Nohn, yes, I very much agree with everything you said. Especially the part about unknowingly sabotaging the group by asking people to roll day one. I think partly it may come from the old school belief of: "if you are worthy enough, you will suffer through the injuries and stay", which is just ridiculous...
Its just ridiculus if you have to live from teaching. Thats my main reason to be just hobby trainer, whoever dislikes my methods, is too frightened or hasn't the will has the right to move on to another group and does not slow the students down willing to train hard
Hi Daniel, do you imagine how people feel who want to learn Aikido and what you can give, but can't because the entry point is too high in your place?
Can u imagine how it feels to invest blood swear and tears in pupils only to see them give up the sport which is a passion for me after some time?
But to answer your question, here are a lot of clubs around with a lower level. If someone asks me about easier training I simply recommend one of them ;)
yes it was a hard rough dojo, we used really put the techniques on and really did try to break bones and arms it was late 80's- 90's, it was fine for me i was early 20's, but i do remember doing kote gaeshi with a guy who was in his 40's (prison guard if i remember right), and at one point he said 'lets not kill each other' now to my shame i took as a sign of weakness (thats what the dojo was like), now i know that if i had to practice that way now for 2 hours a time full on, i'd be asking to slow down (l've trained for the last 25+ years had a few broken bones, 2major back surgerys, as well as the normal cuts bruises ect). Older students at the very least will struggle with harsh techniques or ukemi. It just makes sense to start slow, and if its to easy push them onward.
The backward half-roll is how I learned, and I have always marveled at people being thrown into forward rolls first. Very good stuff, Rokas. You should do a complete series, an instructional video, perhaps even for sale.
Thank you for saying that, I will consider that
If you do all these as a video for sale, I will purchase it. No question. This information is amazing and everyone must have it, and I will work to pass on the word to anyone who will listen.
Great approach!
Great Sensei always innvating ...
Well explained. Thanks a lot.
Excellent!
Great video that I am sure will be helpful to a lot of people....and does not bad mouth anyone. That is valuable and a nice contribution! Thank you.
Thank you. I am learning not to bad mouth anymore ;)
The high feather fall exercise is exactly what I've been looking for. I've done high falls by accident once or twice, but never really got it, but I'm hopeful after watching this. If you make more videos of ukemi exercises, I'll definitely watch them.
Yes, I do a whole build up to learning high falls step by step :)
great video. More please on rolls and falls.
good beginners mind man - shoshin. before long we want to see you teaching aikido again. and jiujitsu with the same shoshin. thank you. zdb.
And they say Aikido doesn't work on the street! Seriously though, I've used ukemi more times than any fighting techniques on the street and saved myself from serious injury each time. Just recently chasing my dog, I had to grab him while running full speed, tripped and fell on concrete. If it weren't for my ukemi training, I would have fallen flat on my face, but muscle memory kicked in and I did a perfect ukemi. Walked away with nothing more than a couple scratches and didn't even realize how bad that could have ended up until I leashed my dog and started walking back home, thanking my little bit of aikido training from years ago. I love doing BJJ now, but they really don't emphasize break falls and ukemi enough.
Muy buena tu didáctica Rokas!
It is amazing how similar these rolls are to Judo...
Excelent!!!
Dogs rolling in the background :)
Very interesting. I must say. When and if you decided to teach Aikido, please do show more of aikido with your bjj results along with this excersises. I bealive this will benefit all students.
Thank you for such informative video.
Smagu, kad buvo naudinga :)
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As a former Aikido practioner who trained BJJ and Muay thai later, I'm inclined to think you should "deconstruct" the changes made by Morihei Ueshiba. Same goes for Judo e Jigoro Kano. Old Judo, or Aikijujutsu way before, was a devastating martial art (proven by the very fact the Gracies learned a form of it from Mitsuo Maeda, a Jigoro Kano student from before he removed dangerous techniques to make Judo a safe competition sport, and that evolved into BJJ).
Aikido do teach great fall control, grappling sensibility and feet movement - if was just made too tame to be actually useful in real combat.
"Least talented person" you must be talking about me because even after 18 months of practice I still fall on my back when doing a forward roll. But I always get up and try one more time, even though it hurts quite a bit. Sensei let me do the 5th kyu exam and I only had to roll once because he knows how hard it is for me. Strangely enough I can do a perfect backward roll, round and nice. Actually it wears me down quite a bit to be honest and not giving up gets harder every time I fail at mae ukemi :(. I think your aikido videos are some of the best out there :) I hope you continue!
Try to relax your belly and back a little when are in the postition shown at Minute 14:50, then try to move your extended legs around ,close to the ground instead of over the head. Also dooing the roll extremly slow will help you to find the exact moment where the problem is, and it held build core strenght to do this small roll and then bigger rolls. Another version of the frontroll you can try: extend the front arm 90 degrees outside instead of under yourself. ( If you roll left side, the arm goes to the left.) Back of the palm down, the rotate the thumb towards your rolling direction. The arm and shoulder and body follows. Also, the drill Rokas shows after 23:30 can help to do a neat front roll, because you have to use your belly and back right to get back like that. Good luck, don't quit.
Hi, thank you for sharing. First of all I personally as an instructor never blame the student. If a student can not do something, normally that means they just miss the right piece of information or build up to them. I would say the same applies in your case :) I am almost sure that when I will present the rest of the exercises, this build up should fix your problems.
Mae ukemi and ushiro ukemi are very different, they are based on different skills and principles. And you simply need to understand them and do them :)
No matter what happens, don’t give up on a proper forward roll. Take it from one of the least physically coordinated people on planet earth, you can learn it. I know it hurts a ton when you can’t do it correctly, and I have had my fair share of injuries trying to force myself to learn, but I was blessed to encounter some good instructors along the way who helped me overcome that and who showed me safer progressions of how to do it, now I teach people to do Falls. I even hold classes periodically for my community.You can and will get it if you continue the journey and to continue finding people to help you get there.
Try rolling very low and across the back of your shoulders. Look behind you when you roll. You must also ensure your forearm doesn't collapse at the elbow. Good luck.
That is one thing I can say I liked about Aikikai(from seeing it on youtube) over the style I trained, was that they seemed to have more ukemi. We only had four basic ones(at least from what I was taught). We had a weird one where you do sort of a hand stand on one hand, a la Luke Skywalker in ESB, and you fall over like a tree and land on your side. The side of your hips/thighs takes the fall impact. I totally know what you mean by beginners when they roll over their head. I often feel that the utility of ukemi is overlooked/underestimated by practitioners of mma and other martial arts.
H4I2I2EE keep in mind that most (if not all) grappling Arts teach you to fall properly. It was the first day in wrestling.
Oh really? It sounds reasonable that they would train falling techniques in a sport like wrestling but I wouldn't know it from watching something like this.
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That guy clearly got hurt cuz he tried to stop himself from being thrown(even puts his hand down) instead of doing a simple forward roll ukemi break fall.
Nice to see this stuff in a systematized manner. If you don't mind, I think I'll use some of this in my next class. (I teach the beginners) Keep up the good work, whether it's aikido or any other art!
I will not mind at all :) Good luck!
2:07 Magic dog appears.
I know :D I was laughing from that as I edited as well ;)
OMG your dogs are so beautiful.
Thank you :)
Also I subscribed
Try looking at other countries and clubs that practice aikido, especially the hidden clubs that a lot doesn't know. Try looking at the philippines, i see that there are aikido clubs there that are interesting.
Hi Rokas, do you know about Hapkido? what do you think about that?
Would you share the progress table you were describing please?
Yes, I will. I'll release it with the next video in continuation of this one
Martial Arts Journey Thanks!
Is the BJJ exercise you were referring to around 9:50 the technical standup?
Hi, not really, although I love the technical stand up. It's I guess... A warm up exercise of thrusting your hips forward as you stand on the foot? I am still very new in BJJ so I can't say exactly why the exercise is done or how but it's done sometimes in the gym I train in and I've seen it a few times online
I am also relatively new to Brazilian jujitsu, but I believe that exercise is done partially because there are several techniques that use the movement, but mostly to teach you to come up from flat on the mat into a kneeling pastor where you were difficult to push over. If both you and your opponent or on the ground with your legs facing towards each other in a very similar orientation to something like 50-50 guard, and you do manage to sweep your opponent backwards, if you’re going to come up to your knees you need to make sure he can’t just push on your hip with A foot and knock you over. That Ford thrust of your hips changes your alignment a little bit and makes you much harder to knock backwards. We had to do a similar drill in karate For the Front stance. My instructor used to demonstrate by having people assume a front stance without that Ford hip thrust and then squaring off with them as if you were going to spar and reaching up with the big toe with his front foot and pushing them over. He could consistently push people over with one to win their hips were not forward where as he can almost stand on their hip when their hips were afford without a problem
Hello Leo ive been practicing aikido for a month right now and usually i get dizzy when doing the mae ukemi, its this common? Will it sease to occur when i get used to it? Thanks for this info, great video!
Yes, just take breaks in between and looking and a single point for a longer time as you roll may helps as well (just don't let it disbalance your rolls :) ), but otherwise as far as I've known people get used to it. If you don't in a few months, make sure you double check your health just to be on the safe side, but I think all should be good ;)
With consistent practice the dizziness will go away. Once you get to the point where instead of trying to see what’s going on in the role, you instinctively know and can feel what’s going on in the role, the dizziness goes down a lot. That will come with consistency. I practiced anywhere that I could. Out in the grass, in the living room, On my mattress, on the couch. You don’t have to practice a lot of times in a row, just a lot of times in total. If you practice two or three in a day every day for 10 years you will find that you’ve never taken that long to do the practice but you’ve done thousands of rolls. I have spent hours at a time doing bowling practice, but the vast majority of my files have been a few at a time.
Part of our ki daily exercise, that is koho tento undo.
Make an aikido vs mma video
But perform aikido at a faster pace
You'll definately win
From your videos i have noticed that the practice speed is too low
Hope this helps
Is it possible to get the list of the ukemi exercises?
That's a good idea. I am planning to release the list as I film all of the exercises. I still have to translate it from my native tongue ;)
So with closing your Dojo, will we see the whole list anytime?
Actually think I'll try some of these drills at home just to add a new dimension to training, coordination when rolling and such, even though I never have (and likely never will) trained Aikido. A friend of mine who did Ninjutsu said the way he learned to roll properly was to practice rolling on concrete where your body recognises what hurts and through a system of trial and error you eventually end up getting the perfect roll.
My only question is, I see a lot of break falls where the hand is thrown down to dissipate force upon impact and that works great in a matted dojo, no doubt. Clearly on concrete, slamming your hand down as you fall is gonna fuck up your arm and hurt like hell. Do these type of rolls you're showing still work on harder surfaces? I'd be interested to see more either way.
Hi, trying these exercises on your own sounds great!
You are very right, slapping with the hand on hard concrete is devastating. This type of a high fall that I've shown can be done on any surface
Bullshit. I train ninjutsu for 4 years now and going. You first and foremost avoid rolling on concrete. Real ninja in medieval japan(that's when the stuff was developed) would not have concrete to roll (clean stone is different, concrete is very very abrasive, it cuts you/bruises you). Also.. basic of rolling is to be as low as possible before you start the roll. In ninjutsu the basic roles are 1 in 1 aikido/judo roles, as rokas is showing). The more advanced jump rolling actual starts with you hitting dirt army style, but just before you reach the pushup position you coil yourself round and push from the legs forward. One hand protects the heads/soil contact, other hand goes between legs just as rokas is showing. 90% of what rokas is showing applies 1 to 1 in ninjutsu
Please follow up on Ukemi thanks!
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Why do you not have a photo of O Sensei in the dojo? Never seen this before.
There is a small picture of him on the shomen :) It's Iwama tradition. If you go to Iwama, there is no picture of O'Sensei on the shomen. Also, O'Sensei did not bow to O'Sensei's image, he bowed to the kamiza ;)
Customary, not mandatory
Why close down your dojo? Aikido most certainly has it's place - knowing and communicating the constrains is key.
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If you're interested in practice and application of falling extracted from martial arts, you should check out the idea of receiving impact in other sports like parkour www.amosrendao.com/parkour-ukemi/ as someone who has a varied athletic background, i think learning to fall is a skill any person should have regardless of what they want out of life. i think everyone wants to be injury free. everyone falls and there's no reason it should severely or permanently injure anyone.
congrats fot the video. But i fell so sad when you show up ukemi about talent because some get it harder then other. Well basically it's thrue but if it happen then the teacher messed up his classes. According to me I ve been teaching to kids and teenager aikido but nobody get hurt never some learn faster then other but at the end if they want they finish to catch it . Well that's the way I try to teach. aikido is less effort maximum energy with no competition... So beginner should never feel like : " Oh gosh I am so bad at this " we have to do the effort to go down to there level and bringing them up .
Actually when i was a kid, 13-14 something, i got into a fight with a guy who did aikido... Ok, he was bigger but he did aikido stuff and i looked like a fool afterwards
I want your dogs!
Get rid of the feather rolling and feather breakfalling. It is totally unrealistic and dangerous. There is no way it works if uke's balance is genuinely taken (ie. kuzushi).
Although I appreciate you putting this on tape, your build up is very regular. Any instructor who bothers to read some of the basic books on aikido instruction (ukemi, undo etcetera) normally knows these?
Furthermore, I have a question which I've been meaning to ask you for quite some time now.
You did a video on a man who had a problem with the pants underneath your hakama and the dogs o the tatami.
Although he was harsh, there is dojo etiquette which is supposed to be part of training for the dojo community as a whole. I understand that you want to improve your practical martial arts, but many of us train not only with that purpose in mind. I think atemi and kuzushi are vital, since it is a martial art. But what bothers me in most of your contributions is that you seem to be bent on discarding as fools practitioners who choose a style as a whole (faults included) to better themselves in only that art, without wanting to fix it. There are indeed many dojo out there which hold questionable levels of spirituality, letting it take the better of the martial aspect, but it pains me to see so little appreciation for traditional styles, acting as if they are beneath practical combat styles only because this is not what you are looking for.
0:48 dogkido sparring.
Dogs stealing the show
Where is part II???!!! Seriously It's been over 4 years! :) More to the point, I really like the way you taught all this ukemi. I really appreciate your new approach, teaching step-by-step, starting from nothing, building up new movement patterns. What I want to say is that I find this video valuable. I'm looking forward the part II, although I suppose it is unlikely to happen :(.
And I am really curious what you think about ukemi from today's point of view. After all these years you spent learning other martial arts, do you find aikido ukemi useful? Would you change the way you perform or teach them in order to become more effective? You can make a video about this:)
Thanks for the comment! I actually filmed half of part II but then life happened and since I don't practice Aikido anymore it was very difficult for me to come back to it and make a part II. Really sorry about that. I don't have specific plans to film it in near future, but later on, who knows!
Re ukemi today, I think it's the best part of aikido and it can save your life when falling over :)