Which is more practical Aikido or Krav Maga?

Question

I'm going to start taking martial arts. After much information gathering, I've narrowed my choice down to two very different styles, Aikido and Krav Maga. I love Aikido's flow, balance beauty and use of leverage and redirecting you're enemies attacks rather than going punch for punch. I'm not a very big guy so Aikido seems the better choice. However, Krav Maga uses multiple styles and seems to be more like "dirty street fighting" and more like life in the real world. Which would be more practical or useful in a real brawl?

Answer 1

Well if you have a Krav Maga and an Aikido place by you, then you should sit and watch a couple of sessions. Even as an Expert in Krav Maga I'm not going to give you a recruiting speech on Krav Maga is better than Aikido, in fact, no professional in the martial arts field would ever do that, at least the ones I have known for over 30 years. Is Aikido effective....yes, is Krav Maga effective...yes, is Judo effective...yes, is boxing effective....yes, is high school wrestling effective.......yes. Now, let's talk about the average situation, most of the time someone will grab you, push you, or come up from behind, Aikido has some effective techniquess, and so does Krav Maga. Now, you have to defend yourself on the street with your girlfriend, maybe your wife and children, what would be more effective on "Street Thugs" or criminals who have spent years in prison and do nothing but lift weights??? Is Aikido the answer? Is Krav Maga the answer? Now, how is the curiculum in the school you choose to pick? What is the quality of the Instructor/Sensei? Are you doing "real world screnarios" "multiple attackers" are you wearing protective gear and getting hit, and hitting back? All of these should be included in your choice. Now, I will stop about Aikido, because I have never studied it, so let's talk about Krav Maga:

Within 12 weeks you will be able to:

Be able to instinctively defend against strikes from a myriad of angles.
Be able to release from grabs, hair pulls,and chokes from all angles.
Be consciously aware of your surroundings, safety, and impending danger, recognizing danger sooner so that you will be able to anticipate and ideally prevent an attack from happening.
Have increased hand/eye and right-side/left-side body coordinations.
You will be in the best shape of your life.

Krav Maga builds core strength. The stronger your core muscles, the better able you'll be able to put all of your body weight behind your punches, kicks, and other strikes.

You can say Krav Maga is like "dirty street fighting" and it is not an Asian Martial Art. Krav Maga utilizes the best from several martial arts, that have been know to work on the street and in a combat environment.

Your choice, there is no wrong choice, it is up to you.

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Answer 2

Aikido Vs Krav Maga

Answer 3

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Which is more practical Aikido or Krav Maga?
I'm going to start taking martial arts. After much information gathering, I've narrowed my choice down to two very different styles, Aikido and Krav Maga. I love Aikido's flow, balance beauty and use of leverage and redirecting you're enemies attacks rather than going punch for...

Answer 4

More important than any style is your quality and frequency of training.
You see what I mean. If you hear that Krav is more practical and then you go out and buy Bob's discount Krav Mag DVD because there are no good schools around then you just screwed yourself up because your heart was set on a style
As a generalization, Akido as a style is very difficult to grasp, I do not believe a student can use this in the streets for combat until they have had years of training, where as Krav is a quick short training program to teach troops en masse.

Check out all the schools in your area. Do not limit yourself to a style. Instead find a quality training location, you will be much happier in the long run.
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Answer 5

Definately Krav Maga (not sure it's spelled right) but you can take someone 3 times your size down before they even know what hit 'em. Doesn't matter your size or physical strength...Krav Maga will make you a MACHINE! Also, there's not that same stigma attached to using it if you have to like there is with so many other martial arts. MUCH, MUCH more practical. And sexy too!!!

Answer 6

The only useful martial art is the one that you put in the time and effort to learn to use properly. Both Aikido and Krav Maga are great martial arts, but it is up to the practitioner to use them properly. Take some free lessons and decide which will work better for you. In the future you may want to learn the other one as well.

Answer 7

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Wow, not to sound like a jerk, but most of the answers here seem to be coming from people who have done neither. Reality is more of your personal opinion and what is available to you. Sure you might dig Krav Maga as an idea, but there could be no Krav schools near you. Or worst of all, you only have craptacular cardio crap maga... aka. Personal trainer who went to a few "Instructor Seminars" put on by some Krav Organization, and then they go and teach "Krav Maga" but in reality it is Tae Bo, with horrible disarms, and kicking pads instead of the air. You may very well like the idea of Aikido, and there not be a school near you. (Quite possible, as there aren't a ton of Aikido schools out there). So what it boils down to is a few things. 1. What is near you and fits your price range and convenience. 2. Who is teaching it. Is it someone who has YEARS into the art, someone who has spent time in other arts as well. Someone with verifiable legitimate credentials? 3. How are they training it? Does the Aikido class randori? Does the Krav class hit people instead of pads? Pads and compliant partners (meaning people who half heartedly do a choreographed attack to and do not try to defend against your technique) are good for developing the fundamental of a technique. You can correct form, make adjustments to how you do the techniques. But if you never get past that, you will not understand how those techniques need to be modified to work on a resisting opponent, or how to attack and defend against someone who is also doing both. You lack practical experience in doing the technique at real speed, and real intensity, against someone who is truly trying to beat you. You have a theoretical idea of how to use that technique but not practical experience. So number 3 is actually quite important. 4. Lastly, it has to be a place that you like and that fits you. If you go to a place with a bunch of overzealous douchebags that you don't want to be around, chances are it is going to impact your ability to realistically train there. Conversely, if you go to a place that is nothing but kids and housewives, your ability to relate or have someone there who can physically challenge you and replicate what you would deal with in a real situation also is going to negatively impact your training. (Unless you get attacked by house wives and kids all the time. So you want to find a place where the people there are people you want to be around, and people that will push you to your limits. You want an environment you look forward to going to, not dread going to. Yes both are completely different philosophies and generally totally different training styles, but in the end the above 4 mentioned things matter over style name.

Answer 8

Krav Maga because it's more realistic and offer more option when it come to real fight. Aikido is extremely hard to use in real fight due to have to grab the opponent which isn't alway successful or good idea. Krav Maga also teach some stuff that Aikido have or some that work better.

Answer 9

krav maga all the way ,,i am a kung fu black belt and i believe that krav maga is the best back alley . balls to the wall technique out there ..i love the art part of kung fu ..but krav maga has the martial down...too bad in the city of three million people i live in nobody teaches it or i would learn it too.

Answer 10

ok heres the deal of you want to redrict and disarm your oopents then train and master akido but if your in for a rough time on streets then do Krav Maga either way its your chjosse on what to but freakliy i tell you this if you want the best of both styles the do both of them.
good luck