Bas Rutten: Aikido in MMA

Bas Rutten explains why aikido isnt used in MMA

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• aikido
• mma

[neils68]

How effective would Aikido be once you have gloves on. Aikido seems more of an empty hand style, so all the fancy hand work would be null and void with gloves. MMA seems mostly boxing, kicking and grappling anyway.

[stevespielberg]

@meuli1000 He didn't doubt it. He just said it's not entirely effective for MMA.

[maharis2000]

Someone told me that Aikido derives out of a Sword culture, where some one might grap your wrist to avoid the pulling of the sword...any thoughts on that...anyone?

[RuthlessViking1]

@Suiko6272 it is imposible to catch a wrist when a proffesional fighter punches ,the guy that punches is already in his movement, to catch his wrist is imposible. and in the begining of mma (the vale tudo fights in brazil)there were almost no rules, and no gloves. if wat you're saying is tue, don't you think that there would be one just one that proved i. there were plenty barre knuckle tournement with almost no rules at all, and the magical aikido masters never showed there magic.

[undeadpresident]

@wordtouremother i see

[wordtouremother]

@undeadpresident Yeah they're allowed under unified rules, but committing two hands to something so ineffective would be pretty dumb. ('Small joint manipulation' is banned, but that's just fingers & toes).

[undeadpresident]

@Suiko6272 yeah the gloves also make boxing a bigger factor in the fights than it would otherwise be too because they don't injure their hands so easily from punching. A lot of people now mistake MMA for real fighting. I think that while there are definite similarities and MMA has helped progress martial arts in many ways, many people now just look to MMA and copy what is done there, neglecting that the most effective techniques are not usable in MMA.

[hey12358y]

Interesting question. MMA is sport fighting. You could define sport fighting as imposing your will on your opponent through aggressive actions:strikes, takedowns,locks. Akido's philosophy is about redirecting your opponents action so he hurts himself. So not a great foundation, but a lot of the principles and techniques apply. Deflecting attacts, controlling and disrupting balnace, breaking grips.etc.

[app369]

@frankvonfrauner your asking me bee you obviously know nothing get some knowledge before you start your name calling? and first of all brah i said champs and diazs arent champs jackson isnt okay so as for that Jones subd 3 out of the last 4 fighters JIU JITSU . By the way the Nate diaz has 7+ submission victories he wins most of them with JIU JITSU and the diaz bros train Ceasar Gracie. You know nothing saying i like to argue and you come at me with mocks and elementary insults?

[Suiko6272]

@undeadpresident They are, its just you'll never see one because the gloves make it near impossible to get it. Just like in the video if a punch comes at an akido master, he'd just catch their wrist and disable them, but because of the mma gloves they can't even grab their wrist to control it.

[frankvonfrauner]

@app369 frankie edgar, nick/nate diaz, rampage jackson, jon jones, gsp.

Do you see a lot jiu jitsu and head kicks? Argumentative cunt. "step in a gym bro" Step in front of a bus brah

[bgcheese]

After watching this video a second time, I have to agree with Bas, Aikido is kinda useless.