Aikido is traditional martial art, and it requires a great deal of patience and dedication to master the techniques that will work against a person who is "not familiar" Aikido. Kapap is also an excellent fighting system if you find a qualified instructor. There are a lot of questions on this forum by young beginning martial artists who want to blend one style with another, but none of them have even "mastered" one martial art or combatives system. For the last 50 plus years, martial arts have always attracted more kids than adults. Martial arts and other combat systems used to be studied and practiced by patient, competent adults who understood the purpose of what they were studying. These days a lot of kids want to jump from one style to the next and try to blend this and that, but they haven't even developed a proficiency in a one system. Many young people can't stick with a martial art for 1 year before they are ready to change schools or switch to a different system altogether.
Kapap will give you a good blend of some street lethal techniques. Aikido requires a lot more patience to master or to at least get good at.
How effective is Aikido in real life situations? Aikido doesn't get into real life situations YOU do! You don't take you *insert name of martial art here* and hit people with it, the martial art isn't in the fight you are. If you are useless, that isn;t the fault of the art.
You can find incredible people and useless people in any art.
The problem with Aikido in my mind isn't so much the techniques, they're straight Japanese Jujitsu, it's the training and philosophy that I think hold it back, being completely defensive in nature means you have to be MANY times better than whoever attacks you to settle the matter in a defensive only manner. Oh and on the subject of police, they back up their Aikido with pepper spray and batons.
Aikido is effective on its on. It does not need to be paired with anything else. If you need to pair your training with something else you need to find a different place to train. The problem is not the art/style it would be either the teacher or the student that is the problem or both.
Military and police all over the world use aikido solely as their method for hand to hand combat.
Perhaps you should ask the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Dept.....or any of the police departments throughout Japan and the US of A that train their officers in Aikido...
it's effective if the person you are fighting doesn't know how to fight, comes at you like an idiot, and lets you do what aikido trains you to do.
The points are yours if you can tell me if you could use this martial art along side another one as well.
How effective is Aikido in real life situations? Considering that you will be receiving 99% of your attacks from the person doesn't this mean that if you are taking a martial art up which is probably a little bit of a waste of time. I then thought if you were to take up a martial art known as kapap and do Aikido as well doesnt this mean you can cross the best techniques that you have learned and use them to defend yourself or, does it just come down to the fact that there are just better martial arts to protect yourself with other than Aikido?
