Is Nihon Goshin Aikido effective in a street fight?

it is all in how you train. if you train for practical fighting, then you will fight in a practical way giving you room to dance





But if you train in a dance form, then you will have a hard time fighting in a practical way . hope this helps

Is Nihon Goshin Aikido effective in a street fight?
always down to the man not the system. depending on your experience or lack of,sounds like you are lacking somwhere by the calibre of the question.work harder and you will know the answer to this question[train hard,fight easy] quote from rick young,if you dont know him tough.
Reply:The most common criticism of aikido is that it suffers from a lack of realism in training.
Reply:some of aikidos knife drills would be very handy if trained realistically.





The general consensus amongst us grapplers is the unarmed grappling Aikido does, lets itself down by not having realistic sparring.





Simply all of us, greco wrestlers, judo guys, BJJ guys kick aikido guys asses any time we go into their clubs.





Then we get told not to come back because we do not 'let the blackbelts throw us'.





...And that is the problem with aikido sparring. it would be a lot better if they cut all the BS and just sparred.
Reply:I dont know about that kind of aikido, but i train in tenshin aikido and it can teach you things if you train in it long enough like how to take people down with knifes staffs and if your really good multiple attackers with weapons... but so far I've been in it for like 3-4 months now and i can take down like 2-3 of my friends without even hardly trying. were just messing around though. I've never used it in a fight.