This is some great aikido by Yasuo Kobayashi, an 8th dan in Japan. He’s so smooth.
I also found footage of him doing a seminar here in Taiwan:
Here he’s known as 小林保雄 and apparently has many schools that follow his teaching. I was surprised to find this because seminars here are so rare. I guess he teaches them here because he has representative schools under him. As you can see, the interpreter is quite enthusiastic.
4 responses so far ↓
1 BL // May 14, 2008 at 8:47 pm
his taiji is pretty good.
2 Dave Chesser // May 14, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Isn’t it?
3 Jay Gischer // May 15, 2008 at 5:30 am
It’s easy to see why he has many students and students of students. He seems very generous and open, letting beginning students do techniques to him, and doing it on them, so they can feel it. That’s usually a very valuable lesson.
His movements remind me most of bagua zhang. All that circling and spiraling.
4 Hermann // May 15, 2008 at 3:50 pm
No idea of aikido myself, but friends of mine are 6th dan, also have a 8th dan master, Watanabe something Seinsei, and they told me the above is not their cup of tea. Their problem: too wide stances, they try the pumped-up ball scenario, touching the ground in 1 point only. Sounds rather Taijiish to me, so I wonder about different styles of aijido and their relevance with Taiji principles. Any thoughts?
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