Aiki Lee
Master of Arts
You bring up a good point DBZ. From my understanding, O-Sensei Ueshiba created aikido from his understanding of diato ryu because he thought that such violence was not necessary for the common era. Aikido was created to be a method to protect onself by harmonizing with everything around you. This makes it much easier to avoid fighting in the first place and the physical self-defense techniques are applicable to an aggressive attacker. If the attacker isn't agressive, why fight him? Aikido does not appear in MMA not because it doesn't work, but because that goes against the philosophy of aikido.