Yahoo answers needs help: Is Aikido an effective martial art?

**Rock Ape** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 7:51pm

Ok.. Thanks... They obviously like crossing their legs

**Shinshoryu** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 7:54pm

Originally Posted by Virus

Xingyi is this...

You're probably gonna laugh at this, but this is why I never really liked chinese martial arts, they all seem a little bit too "dancy".

**Rock Ape** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 8:00pm

Originally Posted by Shinshoryu

You're probably gonna laugh at this, but this is why I never really liked chinese martial arts, they all seem a little bit too "dancy".

Irony lol

**Virtua** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 8:35pm

Originally Posted by Shinshoryu

You're probably gonna laugh at this, but this is why I never really liked chinese martial arts, they all seem a little bit too "dancy".

CMA got me right into Aikido. For me it meant a great progress, from dancing alone to dancing with a partner. :icon_razz

**velomaster** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 9:09pm

It depends on the style and what you use it for. Ueshiba's latest style aikikai is the weakest. Some of his earlier students were not happy with his peace and love quasy religious attitude after WW2 and went separate ways .The most notorious are Yoshinkai/yoshinkan founded by Gozo Shioda and it's the style practiced by the Tokyo police department and Minoru Mochizuki's Yoseikan which is well known in Canada and Europe. And of course you also have Aikibudo/ Aikijujitsu. Aiki techniques can be useful for police officers and security guard as well for the military and they are usually referred as non lethal techniques, when the main objective is to restrain a suspect or detainee.

**Rock Ape** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 9:20pm

Originally Posted by velomaster

It depends on the style and what you use it for. Ueshiba's latest style aikikai is the weakest. Some of his earlier students were not happy with his peace and love quasy religious attitude after WW2 and went separate ways .The most notorious are Yoshinkai/yoshinkan founded by Gozo Shioda and it's the style practiced by the Tokyo police department and Minoru Mochizuki's Yoseikan which is well known in Canada and Europe. And of course you also have Aikibudo/ Aikijujitsu. Aiki techniques can be useful for police officers and security guard as well for the military and they are usually referred as non lethal techniques, when the main objective is to restrain a suspect or detainee.

:rolleyes:

Another ill informed opinion.

Aikikai is not a style of aikido but an organisation under which, aikido organisations may apply for affiliate membership. It just happens to be lead by the Ueshiba family

Ueshiba's 1st generation students didn't set up their own methods purely because of what you suggest, which is simplistic at best and misleading.

There's no credible art known as Aikibudo, that phrase was coined by Ueshiba to describe what he was doing at that time, Aikijujutsu is merely a generic phrase it is not an accurate form/style name unlike say Dai-to Ryu or Kaze Arashi aikijujutsu

**Virtua** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 9:28pm

And out of Yoshinkan their is Sakurai Fumio who consulted the founder of Daido Juku and developed his new style called Shoot Aikido. A style with competitions, which claims it made Aikido work.

There are many ambitions to make Aikido an effective art, but nowadays in the majority of Aikidojos they unfortunately still teach crap. So would you suggest someone to learn Aikido without warning him about its limitations?

**Seraphim** · Posted On: 12/28/2006 9:30pm

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People ask obviously easily answerable questions, they get the same answer over and over. Ever one has their cute hip little avatar of some fashionable anime ****.

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