It was Saturday night, Superbowl weekend in Las Vegas and our 6th kyu level (green belt) student, Dane Crockford, was out at a club with friends. Totally at random a large man grabbed Dane's shirt near the neck and agressively started pulling him closer. Without fear or aggression, Dane simply reached up, grabbing the man's wrist and hand, and applied our Lapel grab #1, placing him in a nikajo. Dane easily controlled his agressor to about halfway down to his knees, and just looked at him... Seeing that the man knew he was out matched, it didn't need to go any farther, and Dane let him go. Both of them simply walked away.
Dane, not only used a technique in a real world situation, he used Aikido philosophy by controlling the situation, not amplifying it. Both parties walked away without a punch being thrown. Truely magnificent!
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And keeping with the act of random, Mits birthday is coming up! HOORAY!!! XD.... April 10th I believe, so should we have his party on Sat April 9th??
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