aikido

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Tall in stature and a kick-boxing and aikido expert, protesting players rapidly discovered he was more than comfortable standing his ground during arguments.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

Eventually, Barrish became an international aikido instructor and ardent Shinto student, making several trips to Japan each year for intensive study with the priests at Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Mie.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

By the time he moved back to the United States in eighth grade, Neilon excelled at baseball, basketball, soccer and aikido, a Japanese martial art based on self-defense.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Ms. Paievska was an aikido trainer and designed books and ceramics before Ukraine’s Maidan revolution, the protests that led to the ouster in 2014 of a pro-Russian president.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Riots have almost always been the result of poor prison administration or operation, not inmate knowledge of our top secret aikido grips.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover