I know, the question is a bit bogus, as one should be comparing arts such as Karate and Aikido merely so as to make them compliment each other.
Thus, with that statement made, let us discuss how the fist should wiggle into the glove.
No pow and bam, just an honest, up front viewpoint for your edification and enlightenment.
Karate is commonly touted as a linear martial arts, and Aikido is supposed to be designed for circular techniques.
Yet, if one seriously analyzes arts such as Karate one will see that perfection of linearity is loose, at best.
If Karate was truly linear, considering how the bones, joints, muscles and so on all depend on each other, the body would probably explode, or, at least degrade from stress.
On the other hand, if Aikido tried to adhere to the perfect circle and only the perfect circle, except in the most theoretical of philosophies, the art would not work.
And, to be honest, Aikido is not the usual choice for down and dirty combat.
While Aikido is pure and wonderful, and can evolve the practitioner in very spiritual senses, one should use a martial art like Karate to enter the fight, then look to aikido to control the fight.
Think about it this way, a fight is the collapse of distance.
The length of the arm, and the circle being made, the lever of the extend arm is too long.
However, if you want magic, use karate to kick, punch, find yourself on the inside as the distance collapses, and then use a shorter lever.
Instead of stepping in and tying a three foot arm circle to a wrist twist, try a hard middle block, slide in and turn the waist.
As you turn the waist, bring the arms up to a short position and catch the elbow, shove your shoulder in and go with the flow.
Go ahead, try this technical adaptation with a friend, even gaze at a little YouTube to get the idea of the arts involved, and you are going to find an instant blend of karate, even the hardest of karate, like Kyukoshinkai, with even the purest of Aikido, even the soft taught by Morihei Uyeshiba.
Now, the above being detailed, the big weakness of Karate is that it is limited, in most modern formats, to destruction.
It has been tailored for tournament, gloves put on for more violence, and given over to fighting for fighting sake.
But while there is an art to destruction, the true art is in control.
Thus, a study of Aikido, tempered by the things I have written here, will enable you to confront the fiercest violence, and alter that violence into the simplest of workable techniques.
You kick, you punch, then you simply embrace your opponent and go with the flow.
A last word on this subject, don't mistake the throws of Aikido for those throws espoused by such arts as judo or jujitsu.
While techniques of the jujitsu methods are quick and workable, we want to move from hard to soft in a conceptual sense, and a certain amount of hard is still needed to make most ju techniques work.
That all said, I wish you the best with this new art you are creating, whether you call it...
karido...
aikate...
your choice.
Thus, with that statement made, let us discuss how the fist should wiggle into the glove.
No pow and bam, just an honest, up front viewpoint for your edification and enlightenment.
Karate is commonly touted as a linear martial arts, and Aikido is supposed to be designed for circular techniques.
Yet, if one seriously analyzes arts such as Karate one will see that perfection of linearity is loose, at best.
If Karate was truly linear, considering how the bones, joints, muscles and so on all depend on each other, the body would probably explode, or, at least degrade from stress.
On the other hand, if Aikido tried to adhere to the perfect circle and only the perfect circle, except in the most theoretical of philosophies, the art would not work.
And, to be honest, Aikido is not the usual choice for down and dirty combat.
While Aikido is pure and wonderful, and can evolve the practitioner in very spiritual senses, one should use a martial art like Karate to enter the fight, then look to aikido to control the fight.
Think about it this way, a fight is the collapse of distance.
The length of the arm, and the circle being made, the lever of the extend arm is too long.
However, if you want magic, use karate to kick, punch, find yourself on the inside as the distance collapses, and then use a shorter lever.
Instead of stepping in and tying a three foot arm circle to a wrist twist, try a hard middle block, slide in and turn the waist.
As you turn the waist, bring the arms up to a short position and catch the elbow, shove your shoulder in and go with the flow.
Go ahead, try this technical adaptation with a friend, even gaze at a little YouTube to get the idea of the arts involved, and you are going to find an instant blend of karate, even the hardest of karate, like Kyukoshinkai, with even the purest of Aikido, even the soft taught by Morihei Uyeshiba.
Now, the above being detailed, the big weakness of Karate is that it is limited, in most modern formats, to destruction.
It has been tailored for tournament, gloves put on for more violence, and given over to fighting for fighting sake.
But while there is an art to destruction, the true art is in control.
Thus, a study of Aikido, tempered by the things I have written here, will enable you to confront the fiercest violence, and alter that violence into the simplest of workable techniques.
You kick, you punch, then you simply embrace your opponent and go with the flow.
A last word on this subject, don't mistake the throws of Aikido for those throws espoused by such arts as judo or jujitsu.
While techniques of the jujitsu methods are quick and workable, we want to move from hard to soft in a conceptual sense, and a certain amount of hard is still needed to make most ju techniques work.
That all said, I wish you the best with this new art you are creating, whether you call it...
karido...
aikate...
your choice.
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