aikido

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At 6ft 2in and a practitioner of kick-boxing and aikido, Rennie was an imposing figure who players soon learned would be more than comfortable standing his ground during an exchange.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2023

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

Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover