Re: Help! How to explain what Aikido is in one sentence
While this is a bit longer than one sentence, I explained Aikido to a couple of beginners as:
"If youre out on the street or in a bar, and there's this guy trying to start a fight with you and you just now this is gonna go bad, and there no way for you to get out of there, do you:
1) punch the guy in the face or kick him, then you probably should go train boxing or karate or something
if you:
2) grab his arm as he holds you, throw him down to the ground and apply a painful lock to him, then you should go train Judo or Jujitsu or similar
but if you:
3) keep talking him out of the fight, trying to defuse the situation until the very end..
then go train Aikido..."
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