Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Debunking The Biggest Myths About AIKIDO" video.

  1. A reasonable video except the black belt comment at the end. This is a typical pseudo mystical claim made by Japanese martial arts to big itself up and increase the duration of student attendance. If you've only mastered the "basics" of an art in the 5-10 years it takes to get a black belt, then the training is woefully deficient. Full contact MMA fighters can have entire careers from start to fininsh in 10 years, and in almost ANY discipline (piano, badminton, wrestling, art, education) 7 years of regular practice is considered to be long enough to attain high competence. The myth of the aged Japanese master, like Kill Bill's Pai Mae is ridiculous. Your body is on the way down by the mid 30s, and even with superb diet and self discipline, you cannot defeat the inevitable consequences of aging. Your knowledge may improve, but your ability to deliver on that decreases with each year, so the idea that you've only mastered that basics by your 30s is crazy. Given the culture of elder worship in the far east, that may also play into this disingenuous claim. Shame about the bespoke shilling. Given your hatred of bullshit and all.
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