" What Are the Most Effective, Efficient and Practical Aikido Techniques? Learn How You Can Easily Control Any Attacker! "

Practical Aikido Techniques are difficult to separate from less effective ones, because Aikido applications are performed in a variety of different ways. It depends on where your focus is, as to how practical they are.

The art of Aikido teaches you many skills, one of which is the ability to defend yourself, but of course there are many more skills involved. For example...

1 - How you develop your spiritual self, using deep breathing, contemplation, and meditation.

2 - How to truly connect with other people and be in harmony with your surrounding environment.

3 - How to develop your health, vitality, and well-being.

4 - How you can build your levels of fitness, strength, speed, stamina, flexibility, and posture.

5 - How to completely relax, release stress and tension.

6 - How you perform effective, efficient and practical Aikido techniques.

7 - How to adapt your techniques for street combat and modern warfare.

The above points are just a small selection of Aikido applications you learn during your training. So, it really depends on what you actually want from the art, and the style and instructor you choose.

There are soft flowing styles, and there are hard practical styles. Also there are knowledgeable instructors, and as in other martial arts and other subjects in life, not so knowledgeable ones.

Either way, you may have to look far and wide for an instructor who will give you the techniques, in a way that will be useful for real street aggression. Most teach in the traditional dojo format as passed to them by their instructors. Of course, if you take the time to get into their... "inner circle", then you may be taught more advanced techniques.

You need to learn basic practical Aikido techniques, but how you go on to develop them, and make them your own, is entirely your decision.

Many martial arts students, would not do well, in reality, as a street attack is certainly not like the safe attacks in a dojo atmosphere. With fear and adrenaline pumping through your veins, then all but your basic skills will fall by the wayside. Avoid, talk them down, freeze, run or defend!

To make your practical Aikido techniques work in a street situation, you will need to adapt them a little. Often, this may be just a small, but very important change to how you practise now.

For example, if we take look at positive ikkyo, the moment just before an attack is launched, you pre-empt that attack. This means that you go forward and attack the forehead, with both palms, and the 'attacker' reacts by putting their hands up to protect their face.

If they raise their hands, then you usually go into ikkyo and take control of their wrist and elbow. This gives you the ability to break the attackers balance to the rear, and turn them around. You then control the arm by relaxing down on the elbow while raising the wrist. This takes them to the floor where you can execute a standard pin, which causes submission.

If they don't get the time to raise their hands and protect their face, then you perform a double palm strike to the face. By doing this with relaxed arms and heavy body, you are able to sink your weight into the strike. This will completely shock your attacker, where you can move in and control them, or even better escape the situation and get out of there.

One of the reasons it takes months, even years, to be able to use practical Aikido techniques, is because of the number of basic techniques you have to learn and the advanced variations of these.

Also, in many dojo's you will practise something for just 10-15 minutes, then move on to something else. This stops boredom and is more entertaining, in other words it keeps the numbers of student training regularly... a slow process of learning!

The downfall to this type of training is that it takes years to be proficient at it. You need to know how to defend yourself now, not later. You never know when you may have an aggressive encounter to deal with.

BUT, there are faster, more efficient ways of developing your skills, and that is to focus and concentrate on just a few techniques, and train hard, but smart. This way you can be efficient, effective and truly have practical Aikido techniques and good Aikido applications.

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