Word: aikido
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...opponents by throwing and pinning them to the floor. Karate emphasizes the concentration of all one's strength into a devastating blow. Jujitsu, a system devised by samurai, uses painful holds to force an opponent into submission. But if these seem too belligerent, there is another way - that of aikido. Aikido's founder was Morihei Ueshiba, a compact man who drew on ancient jujitsu styles and began perfecting his art in pre?World War II Japan. It's claimed he once pinned a famous sumo wrestler to the ground using just one finger. While that may be something...
...pretty much a club as far as Harvard is concerned,” Cameron says. “We get as much funding as the Texas Club. We have to fight with the people who play Aikido for fun for money. So we have entirely different circumstances than the teams we compete against, and we still completely held...
...Omen Hong Kong's public-hygiene inspectors are taking free aikido classes intended to help them enforce new laws against spitting and littering, after several officers were injured while fining angry offenders
...more classical japanese," says 22-year-old Ayako Fujitani, "than I am an all-American girl." Which must say something about the relative strength of national genes: Fujitani's paternal half is karate-klunker-star Steven Seagal, her mother is Miyako Fujitani, a famous aikido instructor, and their offspring has switched from using brawn to brains to get ahead. After six ditsy roles in movies, Fujitani wrote her first novel, Touhimu, in 1999. It was turned into the aloof and alienated film Ritual, which received an award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo's 13th International Film Festival?a double...
Techniques found in an art like Aikido can stop attacks without permanently harming the opponent; Tae Kwon Do contains debilitating counterattacks. Styles such as Jujitsu (old) and Kenpo (newer) show examples of both kicks and "throws." (Practitioners, please pardon my very general definitions!) I am no expert and continue in my own understanding, but I hope those involved in the martial arts might keep the many components in mind as they progress in their studies. --A. J. Liuba Boston...