I ask because a lot of aikido seems like it may work against someone who doesn't do martial arts, but if they were to fight a boxer I don't know if they would do well. Aikidoka don't train against professional punchers, they train against people running in to them either doing an overhand slap, a karate chop, or grabbing them. That is not what most styles teach their students to do in a fight. So, what are your thoughts?
As with many martial arts , if practiced with people actually trying to hit each other , then yes , unfortunately as practiced by many , no.
However, are the Aikido techniques actually designed to work in a situation where someone is a high level striker? I can get if they are geared towards grabs, and they might be some of the best. But would the techniques work standalone against good strikers?
Aikido (as I'm being taught it) concentrates on movement , so as I said , if it's trained honestly has some merit. Also , this.
in my view, aikido's about principles. no, you're not going to be able to kote gaishi a boxer, or tenchi nage your drunk uncle. but if you consider principles and movement, then there's a lot to learn. principles like: evade attack by changing the angle; unbalance, then perform technique; don't use strength, but technique. and also, a lot of new aikidoka miss the fact that the founder of the art specifically said that in practice, the art is mostly striking.
relevant: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzuLs7d3B0"]Chris Atemi.mov - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDp2FGVwnzs"]Atemi.mov - YouTube[/ame]
Ofcourse it works, you just need to train with proper people who will show you the right way to applay it! Look at this: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPjI63QLbiE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPjI63QLbiE[/ame]
If he was doing it against an opponent who was actually trying to hit him and was actively trying not to be countered and thrown - that would be impressive. As it is, it is just one of a million cooperative aikido demos on the internet.
Agreed. Unless the other martial artist is a superior pro boxer I was about to state the same. All to many times (not only in Aikido) that the tori initiates the attack without real focus on hitting the target as well as not doing a natural strike (that some would actually do in a brawl). The so-called Oi-zuki (lunge punch) is often done on a "robotic-non flexible state" As well as the tori restriction of the move, the uke is in full realization that it is coming The problem doing this against a pro-boxer, is that the boxer has a arsenal of quick punches (including jabs) that said uke really could not defend
That dude needs to wake up and fall on his face every day to make up for wearing that low cut V-neck. That's worse than Tapout attire.
If you train it and you can make it work for you then it will most likely work. As my teacher told me when I was asking about using a scorpion kick in a fight. "If you can make it work for you, then it will work."
