People say Aikido is a %26quot;soft%26quot; martial art! However Aikido teachs you how to cripple people with locks, throws, submissions AND defend against knive attacks, multiple defenders etc! So HOW IS BREAKING SOMEONES ARM A %26quot;SOFT%26quot; STYLE OF FIGHTING ! Is it because Aikido teachs mostly defense? REMEMBER the old saying %26quot; A good defense is a good offense!%26quot; Personally I believe MMA is the best way to train however I don%26#039;t understand why people bash Aikido!?
GIVE ME UNBIASED OPINIONS PLEASE!|||Well in my area in is not popular but it is a great art. i think it was because people such as Segal really were egotistical and made a bad name for the art later in his life.
dont worry about what others think about it, go with what you feel is right about it.|||only make belive martial artists would knock aikido even though its not my choice of martial arts it is still good to know and intergrate into your own personal style.|||I train Aikido and love it. I can, however, see how this style has got the rep. that it has. Looking at it and those who train it, it can seem %26quot;fake%26quot;. Before I was able to train in Aikido I loved it and wanted to train in it but saw it as something that appeared to be fake, I wanted to learn what it was all about. As far as %26quot;soft%26quot; that comes from the fact that there are no attacks in Aikido, or at least not the way most people view an attack. I know for a fact and through xp, Aikido is not fake in any way shape or form and it can be but dosen%26#039;t have to be %26quot;soft%26quot;. I use the concepts of Aiki in my other martial arts and they all blend soooo well. I see the view and can understand it but from xp I know that it isn%26#039;t always as you see or think you see.|||Its not the art itself, its about 99% of the schools teaching Aikido, the way they teach just does not create effective fighters, and even if taught the way it was made to be taught it would still take a very VERY long time for it too be effective in the street, maby 10 years
Also Aikido never want to test their skills against someone, there is no evidence of Aikido being effective for what it was made to do, if there was more evidence of Aikido%26#039;s effectiveness and not the usuall pre aranged %26quot;demos%26quot; then people would give it more respect|||I don%26#039;t think they really hate it, they just don%26#039;t understand it so they tend to belittle it. It%26#039;s a natural reaction from people who are used to the idea that martial arts are about beating people up and looking cool while doin it, and this is reinforced by the martial arts that they see in movies and television. I%26#039;ve always made the distinction between a fighting art and a martial art, but that%26#039;s just me. Unlike the fighting arts, a martial art%26#039;s goal is not limited to just winning fights or destroying the enemy. It is also about creating disciplined individuals who contribute to society. If you look back at all the martial arts schools and organizations since time immemorial, they all have some type of credo that requires students to be dedicated to become better persons and promote harmony and peace among fellow men, maybe not in so many words, but something like that. Most of these arts where developed during harsh times of war and so creeds like these made sense. But in a modern society that takes peace for granted, where young people are brainwashed by television and other media to look at acts of violence as something cool or acceptable, these credos are lost on them. When you grow up in suburban towns where nothing really happens, your idea of fun to escape boredom and to stand out among your peers will probably involve some adrenaline charged activity such as beating the crap out of someone or performing feats of darings. You can see it in a number of reality tv shows showing ordinary joes going out of their comfort zones. So when they run into a sedate or passive martial art like Aikido and realize it doesn%26#039;t fit with their idea of %26quot;fun%26quot;, they end up saying: %26quot;WTF kind of lame art is that?%26quot; or %26quot;I can%26#039;t show off to my friends with this lame dancing crap, I need something tough and scary like Jujitsu or Muay Thai so I%26#039;ll look cool beating the crap out of some sucker.%26quot;
Aikido has a purpose, it%26#039;s aim is not to cripple people as you say, but to defend oneself without using excessive aggressive force and minimize injury to your attacker while neutralizing his attack. Not everyone agrees with this idea of defending yourself, but nevertheless it serves as an alternative art for those who are either pacifists by nature or don%26#039;t like beating the crap out of other people with excessive force. If you don%26#039;t like it, then don%26#039;t study it, period. It%26#039;s kinda like the debate between which of the different religions is the true religion, it%26#039;s a never ending argument and the only solution is to respect each other and just live by example, I%26#039;m sure if people see you walking the walk, they don%26#039;t need to hear you talk the big talk to convince them to your way of thinking. As my grandpa used to say, %26quot;Respect is given and earned, not demanded%26quot;|||I like aikido but I think what they mean by soft is that aikido does not initiate the attack but wait for your opponent to attack first which can be frustrating if you are aggressive by nature and want to initiate the action first.|||In martial arts, %26quot;soft%26quot; doesn%26#039;t mean %26quot;weak%26quot;. It means that a particular style or school doesn%26#039;t focus on attack, but defense and using the enemy%26#039;s momentum against them.|||I%26#039;ve never heard this. What particularly negative things about it have you heard???|||It is a lack of understanding of Aikido that causes attitudes like this. In additio, there is a general cultural bias and ignorance about the use of the terms %26#039;soft%26#039; or %26#039;internal%26#039;. These terms don%26#039;t have the same sorts of meaning in asian society (particularly as it relates to shinto and omotokyo). The idea of internal is used to describe ones energy or spirit (this is the %26#039;Ki%26#039; in Aikido), rather than being soft in the western sense of the word. Ki is very important in many martial arts (including Karate, Kung Fu, Tai Chi etc).
Another point may be O%26#039;sensei%26#039;s (the founder) articulation of ideas, particularly towards the end of his life. He would often say things like %26quot;To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace%26quot;. He is paraphrasing Sun Tzu, who said that true genius was to win a war without fighting. These sorts of statements are sometimes taken at face value in Western society.
From what I can gather (and I could be generalising), there are a lot of aikido schools in the US which have removed the more technical aspects of aikido (things like kote- gaeshi, ryote-dori, kenjutsu, jojutsu and bojutstu) which meant that people were taught only the simpler aspects of the art - which weren%26#039;t very powerful.
As for whether MMA is the best way to train, it depends on your motivation. I practise aikido, because I like the cultural aspects and the way it flows as an art.
Hope this helps|||people seem to hate what they dont understand or have never done also if other people say something they sometimes believe as people are social/group creatures|||I really don%26#039;t know why people hate aikido, like i mean it can be such a deadly sport but people think that since it doesn%26#039;t use striking taht it can%26#039;t be taken seriously as a martial art but really u can get ****** up by aikido.|||There are no unbiased opinions lol :) There%26#039;s nothing wrong with soft styles, googleplex got it right. It%26#039;s using energy %26amp; momentum of your attacker to your benefit, instead of stopping/attacking with brute force. It%26#039;s more fluid, as Bruce Lee put it, %26quot;Move like water.%26quot; Aikido is awesome for that.|||it might be that those that hate aikido are looking for a more aggressive art because aikido does not require as much energy to hurt another but using the other persons own energy to hurt themselves.|||Aikido *is* a %26quot;soft%26quot; art... what this means, exactly, I%26#039;m not sure.
However, I have respect for aikido (OK fine, I like it cuz of the hakamas they wear... you happy?) and I would like to learn a bit more about it, if I ever get the opportunity.
I think many people bash on aikido because it can%26#039;t be used for MMA or sportsfighting. And you know what, I don%26#039;t think it can. But there%26#039;s nothing wrong with that. There are a lot more benefits to aikido than knowing how to break someone%26#039;s arm. I don%26#039;t see why it should be altered to fit in sportsfighting.|||It%26#039;s a defensive martial art people don%26#039;t like martial arts that don%26#039;t really teach an offense, also most people don%26#039;t stick around to learn the weapons it teaches!|||The term %26quot;soft%26quot; when used in martial arts in no way conotates wimpiness or lack of ability. Shoa Lin Wu Shu, Kung Fu and Ti chi are also considered %26quot;soft%26quot; styles. %26quot;Soft denotes a certain grace and liquidity of movement as opposed to other %26quot;hard%26quot; styles which express power, speed and a certain stiffness in strikes. Ask your Master to explain this to you.|||I personally think it%26#039;s a great MA and encourage anyone to pursue the style that best fits them.
Still, commonly what I hear negative about Aikido is that the offensive moves are reserved for those of a really high level and dedication, it focuses primarily (too much?) on defense rather than offense and many of its defensive moves are outdated, like defending against overhead chops, which few people practice any longer.|||I agree that many people misunderstand Aikido, but it can not possibly be for lack of knowledge. The MA world is flooded with Aikido books, videos and shows. Heck, I was just flippng through the TV and came to the Fitness channel and they had an hour special on Aikido that read like a highschool Aikido 101.
Aikido can not claim people are uneducated about it. Karate maybe, because there are so many things not Okinawan Karate that use the name Karate. Kung Fu maybe because there are so many varations of Kung Fu. Jujitsu maybe because people only see MMA Jujitsu guys, and not the depth of tradition also available. But, Aikido has managed to keep a single face in the public conscience for decades.|||the techniques are decent but the attacks are unrealistic. Running at people without their weight centered, running with a telegraphed overhead swordhand type strike....aikido people dont typically train to counter takedowns, punching combos and techniques that aren%26#039;t overcommitted.|||The people that I come across that hate Aikido only know about Aikido from people bashing it on sites like bullshido or hearing stories about Segal acting like a jackass. They criticize that Aikido dosen%26#039;t train %26quot;live%26quot; or have any sparing. But love Judo and Ju Jitsu because those arts do. They forget / or never knew that until around mid 1880%26#039;s Judo was very much like Aikido and Kano deligated the more Aikido like elements into kata so that judo could be practiced %26quot;live%26quot; in randori and shiai with out injury. If you examine the self defense / non-competition techniques of Judo they are indistingushable from Aikido. The point I am trying to make is that Aikido dosen%26#039;t train live because the techniques won%26#039;t work live, they don%26#039;t train live because the techniques work so well that if the opponent resists he greatly increases the risk of injury to himself.
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