Surprise demonstration

Sometimes, while in a social event I am asked to explain what is it that we do in our Aikido practice, and though I do try to explain it verbally, it seems near impossible to capture the essence of the practice in words.

Last week we were visited by friends from out of town, who were all martial artists; Master John Escudero, and his Lightning Scientific Arnis students. After a casual evening and food and laughter, we ended up at our Dojo. They did an impressive Arnis demonstration, and shared some of the learning processes and methodology.

Quite surprisingly, they asked us to show them our practice of Aikido.
Wearing street clothes, we started a very informal demo — with the hopes of transmitting something from our training, and our Aikido encounters at the Dojo.