AIKIDO? | asmonaco-aikido

DISCOVER AIKIDO

AIKIDO?

AIkido IS A JAPANESE MARTIAL ART FOUNDED BY

Morihei Ueshiba

Ueshiba Morihei

植芝盛平

1883 |1969

"faire concorder".

"AI" MEANS

Unifying

"KI" MEANS

"ENERGY"

[It is as much the strength, movement or intention of the attacker]

"DO" MEANS

"THE WAY"

["Do" has a spiritual dimension:

it is the path without end]

"AIKIDO" can therefore translate into

"the way of meeting energy"

[To better undestand,

let's take a look at two simple principles]

(IM)BALANCE

When standing in guard, the human body has two points of balance and two points of imbalance (one before oneself, one behind oneself).

Attacking (coming to grab, hit, cut) implies moving. Moving implies liberating one's foothold, or, in martial arts, gliding on very soft footholds. When attacking, in the space of a heartbeat, one's foothold vanishes. Attacking is putting one's imbalance in motion.

MOVEMENT

In AIKIDO, ONE meet the attacker's energy, and ONE amplifIES the natural imbalance of the attacker's moving body

To pin or throw the attacker to the ground

IN AIKIDO, one never uses STRENGTH

First, in a contest of strength with someone, the strongest will win. And there is always someone stronger than oneself. Second, if one opposes their strength to the attacker's, they reinforce the attacker's foothold: one is then struggling against oneself.

In aikido,

ONE relaxES

By positioning oneself right, one amplifies the direction of the attacker's strength (or movement) into the attacker's imbalance. The attacker provides all the power, which works against them.

This is why

aikido is practiced

by women and men of every age