Aikido versus Karate

Short clip of Aikido versus Karate sparring from http://www.extremely-sharp.com

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Aikido
• Karate
• sparring
• fight
• fighting
• martial
• arts

[talkin79]

Not bad...another perfect staged fight. Almost like the WWE

[piaten]

Training like ONLY this sets you up to get killed in the streets! In order for your art to be effective, you must test it against uki who doesn't just leave his arm (or leg) out there free for grabs, and who doesn't run across half the floor to telegraph his intention! Sure looks fun though!

[yourgirlssancho1]

As a Kempo and Aikido student.. In my Aikido dojo, I never told anyone I trained in Kempo but the Sensei could see it in my movements and wanted to test his top students. Well, they got a reality check and really embarrassed. Most got sprained fingers. They don't know how to hit as tori so in turn they don't know how to defend as uke. They were a bit arrogant too. train the way you fight and fight the way you train. Sometimes getting hit is a good lesson on being humble.

[coldfission75]

no Karate here. Looks like two Aikido guys playing around

[sbowesuk]

@talkin79 I genuinely lol'ed when reading your comment, because it's so true! This is clearly a scripted encounter with a guy who doesn't even know Karate. It's an insult...

[Timexs2006]

The problem with these aikido vs karate videos is that they don't use anyone who is any good or of significant rank in karate. Of course if they did it properly, if the karate practitioner hit the aikido person, something would break.

[omgapickle2]

FUKING PWANGE!

[SamJB1997]

Scince when do they wear a hakama in karate?

[gambatteeee]

bullshit.

[AznInvazn69Theory]

@noloferratus Truthfully, I've done the same thing. I've taken Escrima alongside Aikido to further compensate the holes in aikido. Every martial art has holes, and I felt that the two styles bring wholeness if trained in both. I'm not saying that Escrima is more effective, or aikido is more effective. I'm saying that the holes in one art are covered by the other.

[noloferratus]

@AznInvazn69Theory The main reason I stopped taking Aikido is not because I felt it didn't work. I simply found a different group of people who showed me a style that I felt was more effective. For example the stick technique I learned in Aikido class did not cover attacks that use progressively changing angles. The types of attacks I'm writing about focus on strikes that create optical illusions which are not feints and yet can still lands with enough force to dent a 14 gauge steel helm.