TOMIKI AIKIDO - D

Rating:
Summary: Don't buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: It is only 15 minutes long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plus, there is only about 5 minutes of aikido, and not that good at that.
After I saw the video I returned it immediately.

daniel

Rating:
Summary: Waste of money and time
Review: Let's begin with that Tomiki-aikido is not even real aikido. It's just one of O'Sensei's students by the name of Tomiki accomplished a lot in martial arts and was so far-sighted that he saw absence of competition - a major principle of true aikido - as its greatest flaw. So he introduced "his own, "improved" style that involved competition and match-ups, and hence was rejected by the Hombu dojo (just like any other sensei who decided at one point to make aikido a sport)
So the first recomendation to someone who wants to learn aikido is to not even come close to tomiki-aikido, schmiki-aikido, and etc. There is only one Aikido.
You might get a few pointers (very little and of little value due to its length or.. should I say.. its shortage) but this won't be aikido anyway, so why bother?

Rating:
Summary: Don't buy this video
Review: While watching this DVD, I felt like I was teacher reading a book report by a kid that did not read the book. It is only about 20 minutes long with a drawn out title screen and a lot of warnings about copyright included. There may be about 10 minutes of vintage film footage, but much of that is, oddly, a bunch of SAS soldiers getting dressed to practice judo at the Kodokan. At most, about 5 minutes of film show Tomiki sensei. To give you an idea of how poor this DVD is, much of it is refilmed film of Japanese texts, placed backwords on the screen. So, even if you can read Japanese, you would have to look at the text through a mirror to read it. Also, if you are a practioner of Shodokan (Tomiki) aikido, you will quickly notice the narrator using tradition aikido names for techniques that are generally referred to differently in Tomiki Aikido. Based on the lack of useful information given by the narrator, I'd say the filmmakers knew about as much about Tomiki Aikido as they did about Japanese (see above).