Yep, i agree with you on the need to train with resistance. I tend to cross train in boxing, and wrestling. I almost never use the Aikido standing techniques, because they might work, but probably wont because you cant flip a resisting attacking it would result in a stalemate.

But i read in the kung fu magazine with Chen Bing on the cover that many advocates for training see the same stagnation.

I looked for a sparing item for kenjutsu, but i think the closest i can get to that is Last Samurai when Cruise spares with Ujiro.

from his comments:

"Here's the fake dialogue that I wrote for each language. Any similarities to real words are purely coincidental:

Chinese:
Wo jiao piang xie? Da tian jiang ger pang ma! Xie ming ma chen ge la. Ne fan de shun weng she.

French:
La maricot de la francheuse est la botonnaisse et la botteneuse. Tot pa plattannie? To pa plattonisme. Hein? Noreune les oides terrianal.

Italian
Della ma groppoforma di papaligia. E fangelli ma trima, costo mosso: agalla mosto. Pi trima, pa trima.

Russian:
Yuvesh boytnik, graznik -- bohpamoshet badnya. Zet yon a yevleskou groynik. Lepni zet bevchenkski.

Spanish:
Los jungames pala muenos. Copa del jumos pi zampistas: pi querames, pi pleyames, pey gustarañes. !Pi taballyama, pi codo¡

German
Das grumfph ist peine keirschminte, peine greutzenschtepp. Greutzenschtepp ist peine schweirmarke.

Japanese
Gore no ho kakkamatsu, gun makahashimu jo. Kotero unitasu hanashi ma? Kaitu moroka. Hun."

Steve Chen looks like an idiot.

From Wikipedia:
The making of the movie had consequences that overshadowed the film itself. During the filming of a segment directed by John Landis on July 23, 1982, actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le (aged 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (aged 6) died in an accident involving a helicopter being used on the set. Without warning, it spun out of control and crashed, decapitating Morrow and one of the children with its blades. The remaining child was crushed to death as the helicopter crashed. Everyone inside the helicopter was unharmed.

The accident led to legal action against the filmmakers that lasted nearly a decade, and changed the regulations involving children working on movie sets at night and during special effects-heavy scenes. As a result of the accident, one second assistant director had his name removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonymous Alan Smithee. Another result was the end of the friendship between director Landis and producer Spielberg, who himself was already angered before the accident that he violated so many codes.

YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen join Charlie Rose to discuss the rise of YouTube and the future of the company. This is a five-minute preview of a longer conversation that will air Friday, August 11th, on "Charlie Rose".
Also, see this article from Aug 10 on YouTube http://tinyurl.com/o3uy9