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There are some aspects of it that can be applied and I just saw one the other night on the Ultimate Fighter when one fighter submitted another. He was going for an arm triangle choke on his opponent and his opponent’s lower arm, hand, and wrist was turned the wrong way. The fighter on top applying it just turned it further and bent it at the elbow, pinning his opponent’s hand palm down on the mat and applied pressure to both the shoulder as well as to the air way when he moved off to the side for leverage. Pinning someones bent hand to the mat like this is a way of submitting them in Aikido because you can put pressure on their wrist and shoulder and they actually refer to it as “pinning” in that art.
The other night you even see the fighter on the bottom lift his butt and lower back off the floor in an effort to relieve the pressure on his shoulder when his arm is wrapped up this way and hand pinned to the mat.
Aikido has some of the most painful wrist locks that I have ever experienced and so I favor them quite a bit and rely on them in the street. The problem with applying them in MMA is that fighters have their hands and wrists wrapped and tapped and that supports and strengthens their wrists. Nerves running from your forearm down through your wrist and into your hand can not be pinched by your own wrist joint when wrist locks are applied then.
Another aspect that you sometimes see applied though is intercepting your opponent’s hand when he is reaching out to grasp you in some way. Once he has grabbed you and locked his grip on you in some way then you are faced with having to maybe break his grip and sometimes that is not easily done. Aikido is very big on reaching out with your own hands and extending your lower arm before your opponent can do this and intercepting his hand and lower arm and then instead taking advantage of his extended hand and lower arm in some way.
Many of the arts have and use concepts that an educated person in those arts can see being applied in the cage at various times. Many outside those arts don’t understand or recognize these things a lot of times and think they originated in and from MMA when that is not actually the case at all. Elbow strikes are a good example of this and many think that they originated with MMA and its advent when that is not the real case at all. MMA though is an excellent venue for using and showcasing them because of the rules under which fighters fight.
So keep looking at things and asking questions and even look at some traditional martial arts and some of the things those arts teach and stress. You will see what I am talking about I think as well as expand your own knowledge and ability maybe as well. Too many scoff at TMA and some of the things in them without realizing that many of the techniques in the cage originated from TMAs.
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Generally no it isn’t. Aikido is a reactive martial art and is used for controlling situations and has a lot of locks. In an MMA match you aren’t really going to be able to use the hand locks and fancy moves that Aikido teaches, plus you won’t score as many points or win matches because you will mostly be waiting and not attacking and setting the pace. Lastly, a lot of the strikes that you would learn in higher level Aikido are illegal in MMA. Though Anderson Silva has trained some in Aikido, so I guess it does have some usefulness for MMA, though for the most part it doesn’t.
It depends on the fighter. I just saw a youtube clip of an Aikido man in traditional uniform who beat a trained MMA fighter. A lot of people think that MMA beats every other system of fighting, but that’s not always the case.
In true Aikido, students are prohibited from competing in tournaments, but I guess that rule is hard to enforce these days.
Watch clip 1 and then clip 2 of the link below. You will be amazed at how well a traditional Aikido black belt can do against an MMA fighter.
No for the most part it is not. I train in Aikijutsu and our techniques are such that if done correctly the goal is to trash your opponent’s joint on the first technique. That’s not much of a show for sports and entertainment if you are getting it over with in less than a minute. We also pin our opponents face down so they can’t fight back as opposed to sports techniques who pin their opponents face up so they do fight back and draw out the show for a better spectacle. In Aiki you also have one technique and then two or three back up techniques following the first just in case the first one does not work. In between those techniques you have strikes such as knee strikes to the face or elbow joint breaks after which we apply the techniques to the broken joint. None of this is suitable for sports fighting. However there are some techniques that could be modified into sports fighting and those have been but the majority is not meant for sports fighting.
Samurai hit it on the head. Those of us that have studied the traditional arts for a good amount of time recognize them anywhere. Many of the harder headed MMA fans will deny the effectiveness of “Traditional arts” but will use their techniques (or derivatives of) without knowing, & Aikido is no different. Many of the “Elite” fighters (namely) GSP & Anderson Silva (who has studied Aikido, Wing Chun & Capoiera to name a few) have taken aspects of the traditional arts and the results speak for themselves. These martial arts have survived centuries of warfare and evolution for good reason.
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/390948/Anders… (Just a link for those that require proof that Anderson trained Aikido & Wing Chun)
Source(s): Student @ International Wing Chun Academy.
Aikido is strictly for self defense. It not intended for entertainment and sports.
Source(s): Martial Arts since 1982
I don’t know are you doing UFC Fight prelims.
no small joint manipulation