Aikido vs MMA

It's exactly what you would expect

(but more obnoxiously arrogant)

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  • The Aikido guy got schooled, and relatively gently.

    Extraordinary claims (“Aikido is better than _____”) require extraordinary evidence / proof.

    Being athletic counts. I bet a rugby player who’s smaller and lighter than the Aikido guy with NO martial arts training could defeat the Aikido guy. Aikido guys don’t work on cardio, explosiveness, or aggressiveness. Mindset and mentality are important.

  • I think it proves everything. Martial Artists/Fighters/Self Defense Experts who dont stress or pressure test their discipline against the enemy they “claim to be able defeat” will result in this same conclusion. They dont know what real violence looks/feels like and that will put them drastically behind the curve of personal protection.
    You video of Yi Long is impressive, but his craft has been pressure tested against real violence. Yi Long has dedicated his adult life to never getting smacked around like the Aikido fighter.
    Of course real violence comes in many forms. Can that same MMA fighter work their way out of a gun fight or a knife fight? Maybe. Maybe if they had military combat experience or law enforcement training.
    Point is, we need to pressure test ourselves to “know” if what we practice works. Until then, its just guess work.
    “Practice what you preach.”

  • MMA is just a sport, akido is a real martial art for mass destruction. If the akido guy did his art that mma guy would be seven times dead.

    You mma sport fags (no judgement) that play mma don’t understand real martial arts is for killing in war not points in a tournament…….. 🙂

    Just trolling.

  • All I see is a severely out of balance weight and reach difference in the bald dudes favor. You beat up a less experienced dude many times smaller than you. gj

  • Look Circumstances make Rules…and Rules make Systems.

    If you try to rigidly force a System to a different Circumstance it will put you in a disadvantage.

    Just like pure kick-boxers and thai guys had a major disadvantage in early MMA fights against grapplers.

    *SUPER-SHORT HISTORY LESSON*
    In the good old waring days in Japan, footsoldiers at arms wore at least a helmet and something of a chest protection. It was pointless to punch or kick. (Circumstances)

    So if you lost your sword (=bad), the best you could do is to somehow grab the guy swinging, take him down and knife him…or brake his arm. (=good)
    This brought to life Jawara…the ancestor of Jiu-Jitsu doing exactly that

    If you watch old, pre-world war kendo sparring (search kenjutsu old) you see that there is a lot of unpleasant takedowns and ground grappling in it.

    After the II. World War all imperialist samurai practices were no-no and the the arts softened into sports. (Rules) Jitsu-s became Do-s. Ju-do. Ken-do. Aiki-do.

    Just like Kano culled and softened for Judo, so did Ueshiba for Aikido with a nostalgic attraction to anti-sword moves but soften down to non-hurting. (System) That’s why the many iwaza (on the knees) techniques – from old sword forms (katas).

    AIKIDO WAS NOT DESIGNED (System) WITH MODERN STREET CONFLICTS IN MIND (Circumstances) where you are repeatedly kicked, punched, stabbed, bitten in a chaotic manner aiming mostly at your face. (Rules)

    It was SOLD as a self-defense system in the Oh-Japanese-Martial-Arts’ hype in the 80’s by his apprentices. Because more practitioners = more money.
    It’s nice. It’s healthy. It’s pro-culture, pro-tradition and builds a peaceful mindset.

    So is dancing.

  • I would just like to say. That aikido guy got smacked the hell up by the MMA guy. But I will have to say that a true aikido practitioner that takes it serious and I can name a few around my area that would’ve took that guy and not only wrapped his leg around his head but tossed him somewhere over on one of those side padded walls. That’s the truth. But a true aikido practitioner most likely wouldn’t walk into something like that to prove what he’s got that’s just the way they are. But I love seeing stuff like that and I love the fact that that aikido practitioner had a lot of enthusiasm about the art good for you . Hey there is always winners and losers what are you going to do even though he lost he still has aikido in his heart so he’s a winner in my book. Ron

  • i agree with a couple of other commenters here who point out that aikido does have some value. it’s been reformatted and sold to the western market in its worst version. its best version shares a lot with judo and jiu jitsu (its sister arts) and has a unique emphasis on negotiating space in 360º and confronting multiple opponents. there’s a reason a whole bunch of tokyo police practice aikido.

    i’ve done some wrestling, judo, and jiu jitsu, and i’ve grappled with a couple aikidoka who could hold their own, and who had no other formal grappling instruction.

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