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Aikido is a Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba aka 'O Sensei' or 'Great Teacher'. He learnt several ancient martial arts and combined all the effective techniques into Aikido. The martial art that had the most influence on Aikido is Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu. O Sensei removed all the brutal and fatal elements from Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu leaving only techniques that throw or immobilize. Aikido consists mainly of joint locks and throws. Punching and kicking are taught not as the main technique but to compliment the technique. It is used as a distraction, to imbalance and weaken the attacker. Anyone can punch or kick, it takes skill to be able to apply techniques. Most martial arts consist mostly of punches and kicks, that not only hurts the attacker but that also hurts the practitioner. Instead of clashing head on with the attacker and hurting each other, Aikido practitioners are taught ways to blend and redirect the opponents' aggressive energy away from themselves and redirect it towards the aggressor. The attacker gets thrown resulting in minimal hurt to him and no hurt to the Aikido practitioner. Aikido is a compassionate and peace-loving martial gentle yet effective arts that aims to protect not only the Aikido practitioner but even the attacker.
Aikido techniques are very graceful, beautiful and gentle. It is because of this gentle nature that anybody can learn regardless of gender or age. Aikido also provides spiritual and mental calmness to its practitioners. When you are able to apply the techniques correctly and get promoted through the ranks, this also helps to build self-confidence and self-esteem.
Aikido is made up of 3 letters:
Ai which means Harmony, Balance or Unify.
Ki which means Life Energy that is in everyone of us. Chinese people call it Qi.This life energy when used properly is even more powerful than physical strength.
Do which means Way. So Aikido is The Way of Unifying the Life Energy.
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Morihei Ueshiba founded the Art of Aikido. O Sensei (great teacher), as he is called was not much of a manly specimen to begin with. He was sickly as a child, and somewhat sporadic, even flakey in his training efforts.
In 1915 the first real step in the life of the founder of Aikido began. He met Takeda Sokaku, the last real samurai, who was the master of Daito Ryu Aiki Jujitsu. For over twenty years Morihei Ueshiba dedicated his life to learning this ancient art and perfecting the moves that would result in Aikido techniques.
The second step in the life of the founder of the Art of Aikido was when he encountered Onisaburo Deguchi. Onisaburo was the spiritual head of the Omoto kyo religion. Omoto Kyo (Great Source) preaches shinto spirituality and the achievement of personal spirituality through the practicing of virtue.
The Art of Aikido began when Morihei Ueshiba attained spiritual enlightenment in 1925. In a duel with a navel officer, he prevailed over the officer without hurting him through the use of Aikido moves. Afterwards, standing at a well, he experienced a golden glow that sprang from the earth and was divine in nature.
The fourth step in the Art of Aikido was in 1942 while Morihei Ueshiba was practicing ritual purification. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were not devices to throw people with.
The final level in the development in the Art of Aikido happened in 1942, during the dar hours of World War II. The Way of the Warrior is not a means to harm or defeat others.To kill and destroy, is the worst thing a human being can do.
These are the five steps of Aikido martial arts, and they stretch from chaos to peace to inspiration. In the fact of war, from tricks to maim and kill to techniques whereby one harmonizes with his opponent. From a means to defend with life taking force, to a method in which one comes to grips with his opponent's basest motivations.
Do you hate and feel rage, live a low life of base emotional problems? The way out of this dilemma is through personal evolution, not through the breaking of faces and shotgunning of lives. This is the Art of Aikido, and it is an Art that should be spread to the world.
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Karate Kumite and Clint Eastwood, I never thought I'd say those two things in a sentence. In the movie 'The Outlaw Josie Wales,' Clint lectures some sissy pioneers about how to get mad dog mean when you're fighting for survival. There is truth in his statement, but there is, especially if you are involved in classical martial arts training, a lie.
The basic fact of the matter is that you have to grow your basic desire to win. You have to be willing to try harder than you have ever tried before. You have to be willing to fight and not stop fighting.
The falsehood in this assertion is that emotion increases your desire to win. To understand the significance of this in the martial arts we have to define what, exactly, emotion is. The weird thing is that if you look in a dictionary there is not a good definition.
Emotion is not 'mood,' or an 'instinctive state of mind,' and a definition like that tells us less than something. So think on this: when somebody is unable to accept reality he/she creates a mental turmoil that is called emotion. That's a good definition, and I know because I made it up myself, but we have to look deeper if we are really going to understand emotion, it's value, and how to use it.
The Neutronic definition for emotion is: 'Motion inside the head.' You get angry, and in your head you want to create motion (of some sort) towards somebody (hitting them in the head with a hammer). But it is all in your head, and, though that can be tapped into and used, it is also a little less than real.
When you punch somebody, would you put energy into your knee? That would be a waste of energy, right? What you want to strive for, as a martial artist, is to put energy only into the fist.
When you direct energy into body parts other than the one(s) being used you are not being efficient in your motions. This same idea holds true in the subject of emotion. Energy put into emotion is not energy put into the desire to win; to win it is best if we get mad dog cool and determined, not extra angry.
This all said, emotion is not to be disparaged, for emotion is a tool by which we can read others, release our own feelings, experience things like love, and so on. However, emotion in a fight is not necessary, and can even inhibit a person's will to fight. The conclusion here is that when it comes to Karate Kumite, while you must increase your desire to win, you must do so without falling into emotion, or trying to use emotion in any way.
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