However, although aikido (the art of weaponless self-defense) is regarded as a budo by all, most of the schools of aikido do not hold games or competitions and so it is wrong to say that 'the budo without holding them cannot be a budo.'
しかし、合気道は誰もが武道と認めるが、ほとんどの流派は試合・競技は行わないよう、「それがない武道は武道とは言えない」ということはない。