He is something of a "controversial" figure.
What style did you decide on?
OK.
Well I'll give you one thing not many people can say they've been inspired by Steven seagul. The guy isn't exactly known for his honesty and legitimacy
You can break some one arm leg and neck with a sledgehammer.. you do not need Aikido or any other martial art for that.. Would a sledgehammer not be less work and effort? And cash expenditure?
Yeah and I taught bruce lee Kung fu
Yeah he didn't he claims he did but everyone knows that's total bs
Because if there is one place a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai competitor goes to improve their kicking ability, it is to an Aikido master.
Damm that's where I've been going wrong
In some sessions where he was ostensibly training Silva (it did look like Silva was earnestly working on some concepts, and there may have been some new and/or useful variations discussed), Seagal did cover the front kick. Clearly, that wasn't Silva's first exposure to it (I'm not even sure what they would have covered).
I'm glad you're enjoying your training and finding value in it. You may want to step back the rhetoric a bit. Most styles do have some "unnecessary" movement that is part of the training (some styles of Aikido even train this in to account for different responses from the attacker). As for "fancy", that's a pretty vague term. Some of the techniques can get complex (again, designed to follow the movements of the attacker), and can seem fancy compared to other arts, especially when you are looking at the more deeply aiki (what I term "pure aiki") variations.
