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Many aikidoka would say that they have already failed if they have been forced into a physical altercation.
As for the effectiveness of the skills learned in aikido, of course they can be, if you have trained for practical usage. The locks and pins are the same as those in hapkido or jujutsu, only perhaps executed with an aiki flavor.
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My Aikido seems to work just fine when needed.
Marc Abrams
Manny:
1X: Backing up a friend of mine working as a bouncer at a big night club. I was covering his six as he was breaking up a bunch of fools. Someone came running at him with a bottle (yokomen-uchi type of swing). I bended with the swing and greeted him with an ude-uchi (I struck him on the side of the neck). He was launched over the bar into the bar mirror. My friends and I laughed our rears off at that one.
1X: Somebody intentionally spiked the rear of my heel with cleats after I had done a rear sweep tackle in soccer (clean tackle, but the ref called it a foul and I was just walking away). I approached the person, dropped him with an irimi nage and turned it into a choke. I told him what he did was not wise and not to do it again.
Marc
Oh boy!!! nice stories. That's why I would like to learn aikido, just using the force and momentum of the bad guy like in story number 1.
Manny
Tbh, that is hardly a unique feature of aikido.
(1) is something you'll also find in most traditional Japanese arts like jujutsu and ninpo
(2) is executing a technique in an offensive manner. any jujutsu variant, modern or traditional, will get you that.