Hi, this is Shady. Today we're going to be taking a look at a lesson in leverage and redirecting force. So this is not the first challenge that I cover. The first one was Americans challenging Koichi Tohei, which was one of Washi-Baz students or the founder of Iki-Dou students. And he resorted to a lot of Chudo. I covered the fight in an old video, a link at the end. But today we're going to be looking at Robert F. Kennedy's buddy guard challenging Gouzo Shiyoda. Now this was more of a power challenge and the way he handled it was absolutely brilliant. Now it doesn't mean that it's not a fight or we cannot take anything from it, but it's not a full-on randory in a sense or sparring. So the story dates back to 1962. It was when Robert F. Kennedy visited Japan and there when he met Gouzo Shiyoda, his nickname was Godlike. So he did a demonstration and he was somewhat skeptical of it or of the art because of how people were easily just flying around. So he sent his buddy guard to challenge him and from there it was just a basic way of holding him down and the buddy guard could not do it and Shiyoda was basically doing what we call the Kokyuho exercise and look at how the buddy guard just simply collapses. And all he had to do was just grab him and keep him down and he gave a really silly excuse that he skipped breakfast and he wasn't at his best because after his ego was clearly shattered. Now let's take a look at the Samurai spirit documentary. It was on Ikeido this episode. It's a cool documentary. It is available on YouTube. So I'm here. He explains when someone grabs you for example and they're giving you a downward force. You can exploit the gap between the thumb and the fingers and from there you rotate and you take your hands upward because now you're redirecting the force and using leverage. So whenever someone grabs or grips there is that gap especially bigger the arm, the bigger the gap. So this is where you can create your escape or pry open that grip. So here let's see it in Ikeido. So you have double wrist grip, you rotate and then you exploit that gap and from it you take your hands upward and then you steer to the side much like Shiyoda did and what they do today in the Kokyuhou exercise. So do not fight force with force. This is the goal of it or this is the principle behind it. So you cannot fight downward force with an upward force. That's just almost impossible but if you redirect it you can. So again these are some of the principle start in old Jujitsu like the Koryu Jujitsu and they made their way to Ikeido. Now Ikeido you can see a lot of the old self defense techniques. If you see any old Jujitsu books you would see it's a random reception and self defense techniques. Self defense techniques would usually be on their knees or standing up or a lot of grips such as this one. Now the challenge was very unique. It wasn't a fight. It was just a way to hold him down but he couldn't do that and based on my own experience and of course from the old Jujitsu masters. Someone come in and gripping both your forearms. It's not uncommon. It's very common. School kids I can tell you from my experience. They do it all the time. It's been done to me and I've seen it again so many times. So these principles are very important to learn regardless of what you train. Boxing, Savat, Judo, Jujitsu etc. These principles that are found in the self defense curriculum in all Jujitsu they should still be taught in my opinion. If you look at the valentay brothers for example, old, old Gracie Jujitsu that's pretty much what Maeda taught, Ferro and all these others. You can see it had a lot of these principles and then of course the Randory. But the idea of this video is, you know, it's a redirection of force, leverage and of course basic self defense. We can look at them and just laugh. Nobody's gonna hold you like that but in reality a lot of people they just simply do because we're so used to looking at really great Judo techniques and Jujitsu submissions and MMA and then when we come back to these very basic things that just your common assailant or attacker or whatever or school bully would do, we just look at them and being somewhat unrealistic. It's not the case we should always reflect on them. They were put there and preserved for a reason and me, you know, generations later more than a century later experienced them frequently or saw them frequently. It would tell you that they have a lot of value to teach. Now they are not specifically IKIDO unique techniques. They are found everywhere. So a lot of the IKIDO techniques are just simply Jujitsu techniques but focused more on the philosophy of demonstrating the philosophy of harmony and then using these techniques that were once used to maim and kill and stab and whatever. Now they are used to create this harmony between your partner because you know the sole idea of it is to create this this harmony or using these war techniques to reconcile the universe. So it's a very interesting philosophy and I do not think anyone that has not faced adversity or a lot of fighting would understand it. Personally the more I train and the more I fight the more I understand IKIDO but back when I only trained IKIDO it was very hard for me to understand it because all I was looking for is oh if I'm gripped like this or attacked from this axis of power then I'm gonna take this to heart and really try to apply this and really work on this. It's kind of like I'm strategizing for Rando-Ri but in self-defense in a sense but now that I've done countless Rando-Ri sessions and open mats the more I understand IKIDO even in Rando-Ri the way you let go and you just let it happen so you can just find yourself on your feet again like Kuzumi Funen. It's it's very similar so again don't let your perception be fooled by all the professional fighters that you see it's very similar to all the fitness people that we see on social media the drugs they take the photoshop etc so when you see a very balanced healthy real physique either in front of you in the mirror or someone who's just posting their regular physique online now we think of them as weak or skinny or whatever but they can be in fact in very good shape but our perception is just really destroyed from all the you know elite athletes or people who take performance enhancing drugs etc so if you have anything to add let me know down below this was Shady and thank you for listening.