How practical is Aikido?

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• there are many police academies that teach aikido, as well as many people that have used it over the years since its creation.

  aikido like any martial art is only as good as the practitioner. if a style doesnt work the fault is your not the style

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• Aikido on its own will not, and should not, be a huge strenuous work out. This is because Aikido is about using as little energy as possible. It goes directly against aikido to try to make it an intensive strenuous workout trying to work things that aren't needed that teach you the wrong thing.

  yes, once you've got decent at it. After a year? likely not. After 5 years, more than likely. Aikido is very complicated, much more so than kick boxing. It takes a long time to even understand the basics of these types of arts, let alone be good at them at and advanced level.

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• 1) No, there isn't much in terms of a 'work out' ,I think you're right in saying you'd need to do other excerice but remember that there is the mental excercise, if you're interested in that sort of stuff.

  2) Oh yes, people assume it's not but it is,. Maybe a little longer than a year, depeands on how you train and what, some forms of aikido are more aggressive than others but aren't necesserily the most practical, I like to think it is good, people say there aren't any strikes in aikido but there are, Loom in up, e.g. mai geri, that'll be like a kck boxing move. Aikido will defend you, remember that the japanese police all learn it. (-:

• 1. The cardio requirements are generally low to medium, since there isn't a lot of importance placed on exertion but subtleness and less reliance on muscle power. Only when a person knows techniques well enough and has an uke versed in the falls, can they go at it continuous for 15 minutes and break a sweat.

  2. That depends on where you are at in a year under your instructor's quality level. Aikido is not known for its simplicity or ease of use/comprehension, because it uses a refined, advanced, or more complicated setup.

  EDIT1: I won't say that I got immediate results when I started aikido or aikijutsu. Rather, I will say that my previous training or experience allowed me to better make use of my aikido training time. I saw a couple of things which gave me new ideas, but I would not use them the way aikido used the same ideas because of the higher skill requirement.

  It is true that grabbing someone's arm or assuming they have your arm and you then try to get out and switch hands and all that stuff is troublesome to start learning off, because it isn't necessary. If you want someone's hand on you, just let them grab you and close the distance. The same escapes or manipulations can be stopped and then you just apply a strike. If you want to grab them, you first strike them and make their body react, causing a spinal reflex, hopefully, that makes them move their arms towards the injure. You then just interpose your own hand between and grab his arm as he brings it to you. Not very difficult. Then before he recovers, you apply the lock or just move him off place and hit him again. Not that hard. People see it as hard cause they don't understand principles of how to fight.

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  How practical is Aikido?

  I've done kickboxing for a few months, but my kickboxing gym is very far away. There's an aikido dojo near me and I'm really attracted to the aikido style of non-violent self-defense. But I have two major questions about it

  1) Is it a decent workout? If I did Aikido regularly, would...

• It depends on your definition of "in shape". Aikido will work you out in different manner than the standard fitness work out. It will train your joints, coordination, and core muscles, but it won't get you a body building shape. It is more about how to use your muscles in an efficient way than generating an explosive power. Personally I do extra body conditioning, because I want to train acrobatic moves, but that is another story.

  Aikido is as useful is as the user. It can be practical for self-defense, if you train it for self-defense. Some instructors/dojo are traditional oriented, putting more focus on the art. Others will train you possible conflict situations, like for police and security guards.

  Of course you must also define "practicing regularly". If you train 2x a week, you will advance, but probably very slowly.

  After a year of intensive training (4 or more times a week), your survival rate will probably be higher, but I don't think anybody can guarantee you anything this time, regardless of what you are practicing for a year (or even 10 years). Anyone who tries to sell you that kind of mojo is very suspicious.

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