Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 30—Want to learn the Japanese martial art of Aikido? Central Illinois Aikikai, Urbana, has added two new class options — a ...

WESTBOROUGH -- In their final period before spring break, several dozen students at Gibbons Middle School got a taste of a martial art that not only teaches people how to fend off knife-wielding ...

One thought dogged me during the weeks after I resumed practicing aikido in the late '80s, at 41, following a nearly seven-year hiatus: I'm too old for this. Falling safely - and frequently - is ...