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Graham Christian wrote:
Aikido is a discipline and it is stated that there is no fighting in Aikido. Aikido has a little mentioned thing called ma ai. When faced by a person feigning to do this or that, boxing, kung fu, whatever, in other words when trying to be drawn into a fight the the discipline of Aikido says keep ma ai. Thus no fight.
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Ma ai is by no means unique to aikido, or even to Japanese arts.
"Keeping ma ai" while waiting for an opening sounds like a good way to get yourself backed into an untenable situation, though.
Katherine