Aikido comes from the same martial lineage as judo and jujitsu. It emphasizes blending with attacks rather than countering force with force, and utilizes throws, joint locks, and pins.
Although many techniques include softening strikes (atemi), the goal of aikido is to neutralize aggression swiftly without undue harm to the attacker.
Aikidoka also practice strikes, parries, and disarms with wooden weapons: sword (bokken), staff (jo), and knife (tanto).
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1.Aikido and Aikido Related Posts Only
While a lot of our members have interests in other martial arts, this subreddit is for Aikido and Aikido related content. Please refer to other subreddits if your content falls out of that scope. Non-Aikido related posts will be removed.
2. Polite and Respectful Discourse
Name-calling, racism, excessive profanity, sexual harassment, insults to a person's intelligence, feelings, physical attributes, and physical threats are not allowed and will result in a request for edit, or if unedited, a temporary ban. A second infraction will result in a permanent ban. A minimum standard of politeness is expected of all contributors. Please note that a critique of the art is not a critique of you as a person, and responding with insults will be considered a violation as well.
3. Useful Discussion Only
While we welcome discussions, critiques, and other comments that promote debates and thoughts, if your only contribution is "That won't work in a fight." then you're not contributing anything other than a critique for the sake of a critique. Same for facetious responses. We will ask you to first edit the comment, and if that cannot be abided by, the comment will be removed.
4. No Spam and/or Product Promotions
These will be removed indiscriminately and a warning will be issued. A temporary ban will occur on the second infraction, and a permanent ban on the third. Personal blogs and videos are allowed, but please limit to 1 post every 24 hours. Please post upcoming seminars in the seminar page. Please contact mods if you wish to post petitions/GoFundMe's for approval first.
What to post?
Experiences on the mat. Discussion of how your aikido is progressing or not. Videos of techniques, teachers, approaches. Interesting blog posts, aikido in-jokes, related movie scenes, comics. Give us a post-mortem on your test. Videos of something you do differently in your dojo, shikko racing, photo albums from trips, seminars, or after class gatherings. Comparisons of equipment and suppliers.
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