Reviews of Ki Fusion Aikido

I just started as a white belt and I can't get enough of this. It is incredibly effective. I am learning practical techniques that work on attackers with much more strength and much larger size than mine. These techniques I am learning do not harm the attacker they restrain them so I feel like I am learning something I can use if I need to without hurting the opponent and ending up in jail, like the MMA people do.

Mal McRae is an authentic Master, come and test his skills in a non-violent manner, and will become quickly evident. Mal has cross-trained with all sorts and does thing that most people in Aikido cannot do!

If there are 6 aspects to martial arts; 1 hitting; 2 taking a hit; 3 entering; 4 touch-response; 5 take-downs and 6 ground fighting, Aikido emphasises 4 & 5.

In Aikido, you develop a good centre, which makes you hard to take down and touch-response which is feeling and moving another persons centre.

Touch-Response, is most famous in Wing Chung or Tai Chi; in the techniques, push-hands and stick-hands; once you touch a person you can feel where they are and redirect their strikes as well as their push or force.

Aikido also works well against groups of people 'in principle' because of how we tend to move past or through people. Rather than standing and trading blows.

Aikido has some advantages against striking styled arts. Because striking styles, often have weak centres and are easily moved.

Though striker such as Mu Thai, Karate or Kung Fu may have the distinct advantages of training to hit hard and also being used to taking a hit.

Also strikers practice entering or crossing the space for a fast quick accurate and hard strike, Aikido, is not as good with people one on one, who may cling to you and pull you to the 'ground' with them, as with ground fighters, like Judo and Brazilian Jujitsu.

The limitation with ground fight is, it does not work if you are fighting more than one opponent.

Because in Aikido, we train in take downs, it is harder for us to be pulled to the ground, by the grappler.

In Aikido we practice entering and connecting to get past the strike and to get touch. We also strike but this is more to destabilise the centre of our opponent, so they can be taken down easily. Because we always move and enter, in principle, we tend to move through, past or take down our opponents.