Bas Rutten: Aikido in MMA

Bas Rutten: Aikido in MMA


Bas Rutten explains why aikido isnt used in MMA

6 comments on “Bas Rutten: Aikido in MMA

  1. Aikido develops the mind and makes ways for different types of thought processing and thinking,while being pretty useless in a real fight it has a way of “cleansing the soul”,thats why theres a lot of 60+ yr old ppl who still do aikido

  2. I have so much more appreciation for Bas basically saying “yeah it can work but it’s hard to make it work against an MMA fighter” now seeing footage of Dan Theodore effectively doing it in MMA… Joe Rogan pretty much say “hurr durr durr I bet my career it will never work” but Bas was quite a bit classier than that, and it pays off.

  3. I disagree. There is tomiki aikido. It is the minority within aikido but it is still there. Some of the tomiki schools spar freely and with utterly resisting opponents. Some of their throws are very similar to Judo. It’s a mistake to say all of aikido is useless, that is simply not true and being ignorant.

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