Word: jujitsu
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...payday. Over the past few years the popularity of mixed martial arts, the full-combat sport that combines elements of boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, jujitsu and other disciplines, has exploded. One card in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the most prominent men's MMA organization, whose fights are shown on Spike TV and pay-per-view, drew more television viewers than the baseball playoffs in the all-important 18-to-34-year-old-male demographic. The UFC surpassed HBO's 2006 pay-per-view boxing take and is probably worth more than $1 billion. So although the sight of two women...
...willingness to challenge the power of Japan's entrenched bureaucracy behind the scenes. "He has created competition within government that is even better than what Koizumi did," Feldman says. But while Koizumi responded to opposition by shifting the blame to the old guard with accomplished political jujitsu, Abe and his novice team seem to lack the ability-or stomach-to take his fight for reform to the public. He punted on the critical question of whether to raise Japan's consumption tax to help cut public debt, delaying the potentially unpopular decision until after the summer elections-a worrying return...
...something like that. Jujitsu is an ancient and honorable political strategy: if you are clever, you can upend your opponent by leveraging the force of his own assertions. But these are not clever times in Washington. The President has taken to the manic repetition of the word victory, apparently on the advice of a Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, a new addition to the National Security Council staff. Feaver conducted a cold-blooded review of recent polling and concluded that the American public would be more tolerant of the carnage if victory, whatever that means, were the likely result...
Sport? When it began in 1993, the first UFC was meant to be a gimmicky showcase for Brazilian-style jujitsu (and its superiority to other fighting styles), but it quickly devolved into a circus. Wild audiences screamed for matchups of pugilists against wrestlers against kickboxers, a Final Fantasy--video-game array of combatants, except for the very real blood that spattered on the mat of the octagon...
...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 of a fable, it neatly illustrates aikido's core philosophy?overcoming opponents without doing them dire physical harm. As an added benefit, aikido is also effective training for strength, flexibility and posture. Today, dozens of schools, called dojo, continue Ueshiba's teachings throughout Japan. If you're planning to spend any length...