I really like that video, especially the throw at about 1:10 in. Not often you see someone pull that one off in live randori.
A very nice demo. Uke manages to not be too terribly compliant, and nage's speed made it clear that the techniques don't require someone holding out an arm while he wanders around it - the most common indictment of Aikido, based upon what it looks like in teaching and slow training. The most impressive part, to me, was uke; he took a lot of falls on that pavement at speed.
Tony, do you know a Japanese name for that technique? It's in our repertoire, but all the names were changed to English when the art came to the US. We call that "2-on-1" (a complete misnomer and accurate, all at once, since it's named for uke having 2 hands on 1 of nage's, and that's rarely how it works).
And he's being attacked by someone who uses rubber implements of destruction.
That's what you do when you are really good. You give the gun back and tell them to try again.
"C'mon man, that wasn't even worth the effort! Here, try again, and make it fun this time."
The only takeaways you can do is when they are stupid enough to get close. And it happens more often than I'd have thought - a number of decent videos of this stupidity (and people taking advantage of it).
