Customer Reviews

Practical Aiki-do , Vol 1 by Robert Koga

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It's easy to tell, very early on, that Bob Koga, the instructor in this video, is exceptionally good at what he's teaching and probably a pretty nice guy to boot.

I have Vol.'s 1, 4 and 5 of this series (still waiting on volumes 2 & 3) and all are very informative. Volume one tends to cover quite a bit of warming up and explanation, but that's not a bad thing at all. But I was pleased to see that the following volumes in the series did not rehash every little detail covered before.

The lessons shown are very practical and are geared towards law enforcement personnel. This series purposely omits all of the ceremony and cultural artistic-ness of traditional Aikido. The techniques shown are stripped-down versions of classical Aikido moves. There is very little here that could be called even remotely "fancy". It's all very simple and easy to follow.

The only reason I took a star off is because of the somewhat low production values of the dvds. In my DVR vol. 4 froze/glitched a little, but played fine on my laptop and my 99$ dvd player.

All in all, I'd recommend this series to anyone interested in seeing well taught lessons in what is VERY practical Aiki-do.

To whoever is thinking of purchaseing this video,think long and hard first,let me give you the run down.First of all i would like to say i purchased this video a while back and felt maybe i could learn a little something,but i was mistaken.Robert Koga spends at least a good 10 minutes of the video having police officers praise him as if he is some kind of Steven Segal NOT!!!!!!!! Then proceeds to waste more time showing you warm ups you can do,then takes time to explain that aikido is about getting out of the way as if you don't realize that already STEPPING OFF THE TRACK AND OUT OF THE WAY OF THE TRAIN HE CALLS IT.Then and only then after he WASTE as much of your time as he can he is gracious enough to show you maybe four moves,so i thought ok good intro so maybe dvd volume 2 would be better,but same old garbage i thought i was having deja vu.So please if you value your money don't give it to this old wind bag and the only reason the other reviews you read are good is because if you read between the lines it sounds like the purchasers are also police officers.

thanks for nothing KOGA!

P.S If you are looking for good videos that are instructional self defense i recommend anything from SANG H KIM he is good and at least you get a solid 80 minutes of instruction instead of time wasteing kogas other volumes may be good,don't know though i was afraid to buy them.

Every DVD in this series is really good. The best controlling techniques for law enforcement and security personel that I'm aware of.