Is a combination of Aikido and Boxing good for self defence? You would have Boxings strikes and Aikido’s throws and locks.
as good as any and if you like it go for it.if thats what you want to do dont let the clueless ppl on here talk you out of it.
Boxing and JUDO is effective compared to aikido.
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aikido is really only applicable once you have come very close to mastering it. otherwise it is more of a mental and spiritual type of training.
however your on the right track, boxing for a striking game, and another martial arts for the ground. I would recommend judo or jujitsu
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as good as any and if you like it go for it.if thats what you want to do dont let the clueless ppl on here talk you out of it.
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Excellent choice!
Boxing stand up, and punching, with good defensive skills
Aikido excellent for holds, and submissions..
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Aikido and Boxing are NOT good combo for self-defense!
Why?
Boxing is mostly an aggressive sport. You can fight defensively with it, yes, but, it relies on those punches to take someone out (in a self-defense situation not the sport where you can outpoint someone). So, in self-defense you would need to focus on punching someone and hitting them cleanly with punches aggressively.
Aikido is, in contrast to Boxing, a mostly defensive martial art. Aikido is about waiting for the attack. It relies on an attacker’s aggression. The Aikidoka is looking for a chance to throw or throw and pin an attacker to the ground. This is Aikido’s main mission in self-defense. It is designed this way by the founder Morihei Ueshiba.
So, the point is, you have two styles that have two different strategies. Boxing is hard and aggressive, violent. Aikido is soft and defensive, peaceful. The two just don’t mix well with those qualities. They are too diffferent from one another.
If you combine two styles you want ones that are a good combo. Having the idea of a striking art and a grappling art is definetly the right idea.
But, Aikido is just an art that doesn’t blend well with other styles. It relies on harmony and it’s own unique rhythm. Other martial arts are just on a different rhythm, a different speed than Aikido’s flowing, circular moves.
Aikido would be like classical music while Boxing would be like gangsta rap. You have to fit that rhythm of the art. Anyone who has tried Aikido recognizes it’s soft, flowing, rhythm. If you try to be hard, aggressive, use strenght, it backfires on you. So, Boxing’s gangsta rap rhythm will throw Aikido off.
The only art that would work with Aikido would be a primarily groundfighting style. Aikido teaches very little about groundfighting. So, a groundfighting art can fit in there in the gap where there was nothing to begin with. But, the founder of Aikido, didn’t include groundfighting. I haven’t quite understood why he didn’t. I read a book about Aikido one time that try to explain why there is no groundfighting. It basically said that it disrupted that special rhythm of Aikido I was telling you about. It clashed too much. But, in my opinion, if anything is going to mix with Aikido it would be a primarily groundfighting art like Brazillian Jiujitsu.
Aikido just has to be left alone to master it’s throws and locks. It takes a long time for someone to get good at it’s throws and locks. It can take up to 5 years (in my opinion) more or less to be able to use Aikido’s basic set of tools for self-defense. But, that 5 years is based upon allowing Aikido to become part of you. You, yourself, must learn to yield, to flow, to be graceful, to avoid excess use of brute strenght, avoid aggression. You and Aikido must meld together, you become one, and it becomes instinctual. Watch Aikidoka here on Youtube you will see that flow.
Boxing needs to be combined with a different grappling art. Judo, Brazillian Jiujitsu, Sambo, Submission Wrestling, Wrestling, Greco Roman, Catch wrestling, would all be decent combos with Boxing. They all have that aggressive rhythm that boxing has. They also don’t really get in each other’s way either because on the feet, moving around it’s all boxing. A tackle to the legs a throw in the clinch and groundfighting are all those grapplings systems. They don’t mess with one another with what they are trying to do. If Boxing wants to keep it standing and punching, Grappling has no problems with that. If an attacker grabs, Grappling steps in and takes the attacker down to it’s home with groundfighting. All those grappling style are a much better fit for Boxing.
Aikido is just too much of a unique, special, martial art to combine with Boxing. Combine boxing with one of the other grapplings systems instead it will work much better together.
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aikido is only applicable and effective once you have trained for many years. Because the movements have to be perfect, and you have to have your opponent in the perfect position to make the techniques work. It is a beautiful style don’t get me wrong, but not in the hands of a beginner. Boxing yes. but personally i prefer Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and knowledge of how to dirty fight for self defense, and street fighting.
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