The Aikido is a martial art developed in Japan,
but this sinks its roots in the millennial experience of the Chinese and
Koreans body disciplines. Thanks to the work
of O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the so-called modern Aikido,
and of his direct disciples, it has had a world-wide spread.
We remember that the photos and the comments of this site spring from
the practice of the Aikido Kobayashi Hirokazu,
not wanting in some way to involve, in this, schools or styles that follow
other direct disciples of the founder.In our opinion in fact it cannot exist
(although there is someone who persists in providing it) an official version
on what the aikido is, that joins the opinions of the million of practisings,
as it doesn't exist and didn’t ever exist a sole way of practising the
Aikido (neither in the east, Japan included, nor today in the west).
The answer can and must be personal and it depends on the belonging,
on the experience done and on his own ability. In the Aikido of Kobayashi
Hirokazu Soshu it’s fundamental
the concept of individual freedom and from this it springs a strategy of
action and an aesthetics (erect position with balanced and mobile pelvis,
free look) that together
with inner peace allow the attacked to make the attacker relive and revalue
the motivations of his attack. The attacker, in fact, not only finds himself
unhurt from the
physical point of view, but at the same time he has been protagonist of an
action that through levers and articular immobilizations and through some
projections it has
brought benefits to his body and mind.
In addition to the practical of the Taijutsu in the Aikido Kobayashi
there is also the use of weapons (the bokken or wood sword and the jo: a
stick about 1,30 meters long and
from 2,5 to 3 centimeters broad) that are employed in the Tantodori, Jodori,
Kendori (it means literally to take, with the meaning of disarming the knife,
the stick, the sword) and especially in the Aikijo and in the Aikiken
(these last practices are in other schools inexplicably disappeared although
they were an essential aspect of Morihei Ueshiba’s Aikido, and replaced by
the Kenjutsu and
by the Jodo that belong to martial traditions apart).
In the Aikiken and in the Aikijo the pursuit
of the inner peace, the skill in using the look, as well as that of the use
of space and time, transport the practisings to a different but at the same
time real dimension from that lived in every day’s life.
It will be possible then, with practice, to
transpose such a conception of time and space from the martial context to
that social one, setting oneself, towards the others, in a new and higher
conscience level.
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