What are the benefits of training method of Aikido compared to Judo or Boxing ?
Unlike Judo and Boxing, Aikido’s training method allows you to train your whole life without going home every day having the snot beaten out of you. Although Aikido’s training method is not classified as “live sparring”, it is not a static method of kata either. There’s a degree of aliveness that is required to execute Aikido technique successfully, which allows the art to maintain a certain real-life applicability. When practiced with proper attacks, understanding, and a diminishing degree of cooperation toward the upper ranks, Aikido is a very applicable martial art with large potential of inflicting severe bodily harm. In addition, Aikido is the only martial art which allows one to deal with multiple attackers in a fashion which is actually not in the realm of fantasy. It is not about dominating the attackers, but about getting out safely through explosive footwork and surgical timing. Aikido is also useful for weapon and item retention (someone is trying to take away your gun or st
