Is aikido safe for girls?
Hang in there. It’s always hard in the beginning. You will be sore for about a month before your body adjusts to all that exercise even if you are athletic. When training in martial arts you will always find more muscle groups you didn’t even know you had. Martial arts is a full body workout. If self defense is important to you don’t you think any attack is violent? There is no such thing as a non violent attack. Fighting in any shape or form is violent. If your class mates treat you well then you have a really good situation. 99% of you potential attackers will be male. What better opportunity than to practice on your male class mates in a safe environment? Doing the techniques with a male partner is very different from doing them with a female partner and I always found it very unkind of a teacher to just pair up guys with guys and girls with girls. You do not get good training that way and in a school I think the guys should help the girls too. As for getting hurt, I suppose you can
