Japanese martial art that emphasizes not injuring the attacker

Usage examples of aikido.

For the Martial Open was the dream tournament: the one in which boxer met wrestler, karateka met judoka, and kung-fu sifu met aikido sensei, in fights to the finish.

Kung-fu and Aikido were tied for first place, each with a wonlost record of 1-0.

But no contestant was allowed to judge, so the third was a substitute, the Aikido judge, representing Judo for this one match.

If Aikido can be said to specialize, it is in arm and wrist locks, finger holds and arm throws, but the man surely recognized a good leglock too.

I regarded aikido as a gentler discipline than karate or kung-fu, and one more likely to prevail without breaking bones.

Judo was in a three way tie for second with Kung-fu and Aikido, all 2-1.

The senior Aikido sensei was said to be a most remarkable man, possessed of ki and the leading figure of his discipline but his pupil Sato, though promising, was not of that caliber.

I turned to the voice to find Hiroshi, the little aikido sensei, on my other side.

Had Aikido or Kung-fu been similarly restricted, with penalties given for injury to the opponent, this tournament might have had a very different complexion.

Takao had planned to take the second Aikido match, but with Hiroshi now certain to appear, that was out.

I had seen the Karate defeats by Judo and Aikido, but they were not enough.

That strike had been enough for Wang to win over Aikido, I remembered, but not in this case.

He dwelt unnecessarily, I thought, on my prior loss to Makato and on the bout I had won by forfeit because Makato had incapacitated my Aikido adversary.

He may be aikido, not judo, but he taught me to extend my own ki through my voice.

To steel his body with the fluid motions and speed of aikido, he also took up boxing and fencing and rounded things out with acrobatics.