Does Aikido REALLY work in a street fight 

Most aikido schools don’t pressure test their techniques against a resisting opponent… that’s a very good reason why it wouldn’t work. They also don’t really train strikes. This channel is a huge exception.

@@aaronkahn-bork1120 there is combative aikido, and remember in a street fight any technique because it's all-out combat could work. You are right you point out some good points about akido, it's very non-aggressive doesn't teach you much about strikes this channel is an exception. But as I say there is combative Akido..

Sometimes you don't get a chance to walk away.

This is why I carry a 42 inch long combat cane because I can use it

You sound like a nerd

Yeah sounds like the fact of a kid knowing some martial arts stuff usually discourages bullies from going through with their bad acts against that specific kid... Something similar happened to me when I was in primary school, a bully stopped a friend of mine and told him to give me the message he was going to kick my b*tt, my friend for some reason had the (greatly geniuses) idea to randomly tell him that he would have a bad time because I knew some fencing stuff (I had no ideia of any martial arts at that time), and that I could seriously injury him with any piece of wood I could pick on the ground to use like a sword... St*pid or not, my friend said it was enough to make the bully look clearly uncomfortable and after that day he never even came close to me, my friend smooth talk have saved me for real that day...

@GabrielKlippel-o8m Yeah it can go either way. I'm glad it worked out for you in that scenario. The great thing about bullies is that generally they want an easy target, and if you show them you aren't or if they think you aren't, they generally leave you alone. A year later a guy threatened me for talking to his girlfriend, who had been a friend of mine since my freshman year. She was there and basically told her boyfriend, "Don't do that. He'll tear you apart." In that case she was probably right, but as much as I've trained I never actually liked fighting, so I'm glad he backed down.

Agreed, it's good to know more than one. I loved judo.

and timing, too. arguably, the most important factor.

@@kirillzakharov7336 True. Timing and reflexes are also very important no matter what your style or discipline.

Anything that involves work against a resisting opponent. whether it is boxing with it's competitions, Judo randori, rolling in BJJ, sparring in Muay Thai. Something that makes your stress/fear level go up so you get used to actually moving and doing something under adrenal stress. That is the key component missing from most Aikido training. Edit: I am also a fan of a training technique used in BJJ where one technique will be taught along with variations. The technique is initially done in a cooperative manner much like Aikido training. Then in the next phase the training partner starts trying to escape from the technique or use strength to keep it from being applied. In the third phase the training partner starts to try to counter the technique with something of their own. If the given technique is a counter to some sort of attack the training partner starts trying to make the initial attack work. That is directly applicable to Aikido since most of what we do could be described as counters. I shamelessly stole this method and have applied it to my Aikido training. It worked well for me as I had to use Aikido to defend myself at work numerous times while working at a hospital with an active emergency Department that was also a psychiatric emergency receiving facility. Part of the that last phase of training for Aikido techniques should include discussing why the various grabbing attacks in Aikido are used. For training I have found it useful use the attacks in Aikido either as a precursor to a judo type throw or wrestling takedown, or use the grab to keep nage from drawing a sword or knife (Aikido is based on Samurai martial arts and they were always armed) this give the Uke a goal besides "grab and hold on tight" . It also gives them a realistic way to apply energy to nage. Lastly it (should) give nage some fear of getting thrown or taken down, even if it is only fear of embarrassment. The purpose of the strikes are self explanatory. When it comes to the last phase when working with strikes, just give uke some boxing or MMA gloves and let them try to actually hit nage without being thrown or locked up. Students that are taking part in the third phase of this training paradigm should have good ukemi skills. It is NOT for new students.

Judo.

Tomiki Aikido is a hybrid of Aiki-jūjutsu and Judo.

Does boxing and kickboxing teach you how to defend against multiple attackers and knives?. NO, Aiki-jūjutsu and even Judo does. Tomiki Aikido is a hybrid of those.

@@ebakindeji5941 yea they teach how Its called Run All that crap you said doesn’t work against multiple attackers because they all jump you at the same time And if you want the best Its called a pew pew