I am just reading the National paper online (The Herald Sun - Australia) and there is a story about Stevan Segal, the actor wanting to become an honorary member of Costa Rica's Police force. Anyway, they described him as a martial arts expert! Can anyone confirm if and at what martial art he is a supposed expert, I just assumed he was another B Grade actor, plus the guy never looks in shape, he always looks like he just finished a bucket of KFC. How would he go in the UFC?
First of all, you must be an idiot, because your friend google knows everything about this guy. Secondly, there isn't any way to prove that he is martial arts expert, because facts doesn't mean anything to you guys. That's why there really isn't any answer to your question, so let say he
was is an actor/director/producer of his own movies. His best role by far is the "cock puncher" from the "Onion movie", and by that he has proven at lest for me that he isn't so serious guy after all.
If the word "Aikido" tells you anything, he is a first non Japanese who has his own martial arts school in japan. He has 7th dan black belt in aikido, which is a martial art where you don't get those belts for Christmas gifts, but you must accomplish certain level to get it, so it takes years to make the second dan black belt and few decades to get the 7th dan. Highest today is 10th dan from the scale of 12.
From the aikodo faq:
Is Steven Seagal really an Aikidoka? What is his rank?
Steven Seagal really is an Aikido instructor (or was, until his movie career got in the way). He has a rank of seventh dan (Aikikai) and has run his own dojo in both Japan and the United States. Most of what you see in the movies, however, is not Aikido as it is practised in the dojo. Some argue that it is not Aikido at all.
His Aikido is for real. Here's what Wendy Palmer had to say in "Aikido in America":
He has great throws. Very energetic, very fast, very powerful. He would throw me -- bam! -- I'd hit the mat; the spit would fly out of my mouth, that kind of thing, just really powerful. [...] He had very good Aikido. He really did. He threw me very energetically. At that time he was not particularly muscled. He was strong, aiki-strong, but he didn't have a kind of gym-muscle body at all. This throws were very fast, very energetic. You never knew what happened. He could do that art.
