When I was a young adult in the 1990's I practised the Japanese martial art aikido in Helsinki University's aikido club Seitokai. It was nice motion and the idea was to defend oneself without hurting anyone, but anyway the idea was to successfully defend, not to attack, even though it seemed somewhat uneffective. Aikido is good in that in it can people of different sizes and of different body structure and moving style practice together, and typically it was just fun.
One of the main ideas in aikido is to defend obeself without using much force, only a little or no force is the typical advice. Instead of force one guides the attacker's motion via natural roads so that the attacker falls quite softly or softly. In old videos of aikido's founder it is said to have been with so little forcing that some flew without him even having touched them. So that is one of the interesting highlights of martial arts stories. Typical example is to lead a forward moving attacker from nearer hand downwards, and so she/he stumbles somewhat and starts to rise, but one threatens by hand from the front side of the head and so she/he leans backwards to avoid being hit in the head, and so often without touching he/she falls backwards (like an old rolling chair) by bending a leg to not to fall from so high. ("Tenchinage") The floor is of some kind of padding sheets called tatami, meant for gymnastics or the like.
If one would think of similar from far, say tens of meters, there maybe could be a (short) shouting noise commanding and then just relaxing, summer time grass growing, insects buzzling.
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