Aikido; is a Japanese martial art implying locks and holds. It also teaches a unique method of self-defense stressing holistic self-discipline through mind-body awareness. This practice is also thought to teach one to be sensitive to another person’s energy field when it's not normal enabling them to sense impending danger. This technique utilizes the principle of nonresistance to cause an opponent’s own momentum to work against them. It resembles other martial arts in the way it uses throwing and twisting techniques, pressure on vital nerves is also use yet Aikido is not one of the deadly arts and is used to subdue an opponent rather than kill or maim them.