https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD_Lw6VHYLI
I never realize how terrible Aikido techniques were before I looked at them and tried to assess their usability. This video breaks down a how a Aikido pressu

https://www.reddit.com/r/aikido/comments/8howe6/aikido_and_mma_pt_2_aftermath/
17K subscribers in the aikido community. Aikido comes from the same martial lineage as judo and jujitsu. It emphasizes blending with attacks rather

https://www.reddit.com/r/martialarts/comments/172xhwk/aikido_doesnt_work_and_thats_how_i_realised_it/
Aikido doesn't work and that's how I realised it. Yeah, I know that for most of you, this is obvious. But her me out: I was born in a family full of aikidokas. My father is a 6th degree black belt, my uncle is a 4th degree black belt. So me doing aikido wasn't really a choice, it was destiny. For a long time as a little child, I thought this

https://www.reddit.com/r/aikido/comments/2f7zt7/why_does_aikido_get_so_much_hate/
So, in summary, the reasons for the Aikido hate, from my perspective anyway, are: 1: complete ignorance. 2: lack of sparring/proving in competition; cooperative kata-like training. 3: the amount of mastery required to protect yourself from a single unarmed opponent, let alone multiple and/or armed ones.

https://www.martialtalk.com/threads/why-aikido-is-so-difficult.117453/
Rochester, MN. Feb 11, 2015. #3. It's difficult because it is very different from other martial arts. The movements are circular, and flowing....like water. It's also difficult because tension and strength don't work. It is completely natural to tense your muscles when fighting, but aikido doesn't work like that.

https://www.facebook.com/ApertureFightFocused/videos/why-aikido-fails/616180258773317/
48K views, 885 likes, 58 loves, 134 comments, 407 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Aperture Fight Focused: Why Your Aikido will Fail on the Street! Via: AikidoFlow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXqgWXSUUI
Aikido often has a mixed or even negative reputation, especially between practitioners of MMA and BJJ. It took me years to realize why this is actually the c

https://medium.com/@cris.eyza/the-3-reasons-why-aikido-doesnt-work-e767cfb315f7
90) (In real Budo, there is only the first strike) Also, it's really close to impossible to catch a punch with your hand. Same thing when the attacker is armed with a knife, only worse. 2. Over

https://aikidojournal.com/2020/11/18/what-aikido-is-what-it-is-not-and-why-it-is-of-value/
I consider Aikido to be a system of dynamic martial movements, that is, kata. It involves a large degree of cooperation. Once a person's balance is taken, that person does not try to counter, does not try to resist. There is no active sparring, and although an uke should be firm and not collapse, they do not offer a fighting resistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jZ49wXyrMg
Aikido is best known for its sophisticated philosophy. Learn more about it here and why eventually it fails to deliver its own promise.00:00 Intro00:55 Under

https://theselfdefenceexpert.com/aikido/
One of the reasons that Aikido fails so badly against other arts (apart from a lack of athletic ability of its participants) is that they don't train to fight other Martial Arts. ... Aikido is part of life. It forms the practice of the mind and body to attain better health, both mentally and physically. And at the same time, if you are attacked

https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/578/why-doesnt-aikido-have-kicking-techniques
There ARE kicks in Aikido. The most common reasons it is believed there are no kicks or even kick defenses in Aikido by aikidoka, by other martial artists or the public are as follows: a student hasn't trained long enough to be shown the kicks or has not progressed far enough within Aikido to have been taught them.

http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9728
I failed Aikido in 'real life', not the other way around. I saw a bad situation, tried to intervene, and had no effect. It was a failure of spirit, or focus, or intent, who knows... I had too much to drink, and the aggressor was dangerous-crazy.

https://thewayyoupractice.blogspot.com/2019/01/aikido-past-present-and-future-part-two.html
Part One of this series is available here. There is a thread on the old Aikiweb forums called "Aikido does not work at all in a fight". It was posted over 18 years ago, on 10/17/2000. At the time of this writing, it is still the top post on Aikiweb and has 2034 replies. I know about this thread because, in my True Believer days, I commented on

https://www.reddit.com/r/martialarts/comments/zjh792/the_issues_with_aikido_from_an_aikido_practitioner/
The bottom line is, Aikido works. my aikido doesn't work, and the way we practice can help improve it drastically. The issue is that there should be more of a general sense of competition in Aikido. For the most part, it's all cooperative technique learning and your partner lets you gently throw them.

http://www.aikidofaq.com/stories/real_life2.html
Roni wrote: "My favorite "real-life Aikido" story is one about S. Maruyama Sensei. When leaving the downtown Philly dojo one evening, he and a senior student were confronted by an intoxicated man (the neighborhood was a kind of skid row at the time), demaning money. The senior student told the man to bug off.

http://www.aikidofaq.com/essays/martial_aiki.html
by James Williams (An excerpt from an article published in the Aikido JOURNAL) "Nature knows but one kind of justice, the inevitable conformity of results to causes." In modern language we use the term martial arts for a number of disciplines that are based to some degree or another on various Samurai methods of war and personal combat.

http://freemartialartsonline.com/2019/02/21/the-3-reasons-why-aikido-doesnt-work/
However, many of its practitioners have asked themselves why it doesn't work in a fight. Perhaps you are one of them. Keep on reading: I'm about to present to you the three main reasons for Aikido's ineffectiveness - which I have discovered during the decade that I practiced the martial art myself internationally. 1. Defensiveness.

https://budodragon.com/why-aikido-has-lost-popularity/
Aikido was founded in 1942 by Morihei Ueshiba and like many martial arts its birthplace was formed in Japan. To understand why Aikido declined in popularity, you must first understand that this is rooted deep into its initial philosophy that was created by Ueshiba. In short, Aikido became lost in modern-day martial arts and still has the

https://tampaaikido.com/articles/what-really-makes-aikido-stand-out-from-all-other-martial-arts/
There are a lot of aspects to Aikido that make it distinct from all other martial arts; its moral foundation and objectives, its prioritization of spiritual discipline, its emphasis on takemusu (infinite expression) and principle over technique, and of course its unique perspective of indirect solutions to aggression. Many might also argue that its study of ma-ai, de-ai, and concepts of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcmFnfAqE-w
Aikido is best known for it's sophisticated philosophy, yet unfortunately it fails to deliver it on many levels. In this video I explain in detail how I beli

https://www.reddit.com/r/martialarts/comments/3pt05e/aikido_or_judo_tell_me_about_your_experiences/
Aikido varies a lot from organisation to organisation, and instructor to instructor. Now many people have made good points about Judo being used against resisting opponents, and so you actually see if you can use a technique or not. Some Aikido schools do this. Shodokan Aikido was founded by someone who studied Judo and Aikido.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/cnn-first-trump-biden-debate-1236056128/
The media tried to keep the current President and the former one on a short leash Thursday evening, but failed in many ways to keep them in check. In a unorthodox presidential debate that focused

http://freemartialartsonline.com/aikido-2/combat-aikido/
The attacks offered in an Aikido class are slow and flowing and easy for the defender to handle. This may teach one the technique, but it doesn't approximate the hard, fast reality of a punch in the face that is encountered on the street. The second flaw in the circular art is that the strikes (Atemi) have been watered down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/business/biden-student-debt.html
A part of the SAVE plan that would have cut monthly bills for millions of borrowers starting on July 1 was put on hold. By Tara Siegel Bernard and Zach Montague Two federal judges in Kansas and