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Why Aikido rather than another martial art? Aikido is sometimes held up for comparison to other martial arts, and students are frequently curious about how well a person trained in aikido would stand up against someone of comparable size and strength who has trained in another martial art such as karate, judo, or ju jitsu. It is natural to hope that the martial art one has chosen to train in has effective combat applications. However, it is also important to realise that the founder of Aikido deliberately chose to develop his martial art into something other than the most deadly fighting art on the planet, and some martial arts may have more combat-effective techniques than Aikido. This is not to say that Aikido techniques cannot be combat-effective - there are many practitioners of Aikido who have applied Aikido techniques successfully to defend themselves in a variety of life-threatening situations. No martial art can guarantee victory in every possible circumstance. All martial arts, including Aikido, consist of strategies for managing conflict. There are many different types of conflict and many different parameters which may define a conflict. Since conflicts are not restricted to situations which result in physical combat, it may be that a martial art which encodes strategies for managing other types of conflict will serve its practitioners better in their daily lives than a more combat-oriented art. Many teachers of Aikido treat it as just such a martial art. One is more commonly confronted with conflicts involving co-workers, significant others, or family members than with assailants bent on all-out physical violence. Also, even where physical violence is a genuine danger, many people seek strategies which do not require injury for dealing with such situations. For example, someone working with disturbed individuals may find it less than ideal to respond to aggression by knocking the individual to the ground and pummelling him or her into submission. Many people find that Aikido is an effective martial art for dealing with situations similar to this. |
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