Aikido help

**thecrushernyc** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 12:16pm

I'm new to martial arts. I'm looking for a style to train in. I'm old, so it can't be too tough. I've been considering Aikido. What do you guys think?

**PointyShinyBurn** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 12:32pm

What are your goals? Why do you want to train martial arts?

**Proximus** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 12:33pm

Please do a search function. There are a lot of strong opinions of Aikido on this forum.

**TKD Black Belt** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 12:53pm

Originally Posted by thecrushernyc

I'm new to martial arts. I'm looking for a style to train in. I'm old, so it can't be too tough. I've been considering Aikido. What do you guys think?

"Steven Segal is a striking and somewhat boyishly handsome looking (often with ponytail) and usually impeccably dressed action star who burst onto the martial arts film scene in 1988 in the fast-paced Warner Bros. production Above the Law (1988). The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at the age of seven under the tutelage of well known karate instructor and author Fumio Demura, and in the 1960s commenced his aikido training in Orange County, California, under the instruction of Harry Ishisaka. Seagal received his first dan accreditation in 1974, after he had moved to Japan to further his martial arts training. After spending many years there honing his skills, he achieved the ranking of a 7th dan in the Japanese martial art "aikido" and was instructing wealthy clients in Los Angeles when he came to the attention of Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz."

That is all,

TKD

**thecrushernyc** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 1:01pm

Originally Posted by PointyShinyBurn

What are your goals? Why do you want to train martial arts?

Well, I lost a bunch of weight (180 lbs.), and I want to keep it off, so I'm looking for an interesting workout. Martial arts fits the bill, but I don't want to do solo forms, I prefer grappling, or at least working out with a partner.

**Beaton Yu** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 1:08pm

Originally Posted by thecrushernyc

Well, I lost a bunch of weight (180 lbs.), and I want to keep it off, so I'm looking for an interesting workout. Martial arts fits the bill, but I don't want to do solo forms, I prefer grappling, or at least working out with a partner.

I recommend Judo. Once you learn to breakfall it's really not very hard on your body.

**Kidnemo** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 1:11pm

Originally Posted by thecrushernyc

Well, I lost a bunch of weight (180 lbs.), and I want to keep it off, so I'm looking for an interesting workout. Martial arts fits the bill, but I don't want to do solo forms, I prefer grappling, or at least working out with a partner.

We have 50 year old plus guys who train submission grappling with us.

**Fitz** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 1:22pm

Originally Posted by thecrushernyc

Well, I lost a bunch of weight (180 lbs.), and I want to keep it off, so I'm looking for an interesting workout. Martial arts fits the bill, but I don't want to do solo forms, I prefer grappling, or at least working out with a partner.

If you're in NYC consider checking out the Boxing Trainers at Fighthouse on 26th Street. They do some really solid conditioning and basics drills and it will give you a chance to see a lot of the area's different schools and styles in action as a ton of different groups train in the same location.

What age are you that you're considering yourself "old" anyway?

**PirateJon** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 1:24pm

Don't do akido.

**PointyShinyBurn** · Posted On: 5/31/2006 1:27pm

Originally Posted by thecrushernyc

Well, I lost a bunch of weight (180 lbs.), and I want to keep it off, so I'm looking for an interesting workout. Martial arts fits the bill, but I don't want to do solo forms, I prefer grappling, or at least working out with a partner.

Most schools of Aikido are pretty soft, and won't constitute any kind of effective workout. May I suggest you try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, we do fewer big slamming bone breaking throws than Judo, which makes it less crippling for the slightly older among us, but you still get to choke people out.