What is success? And what are the ingredients needed to achieve it? Analysts from McKinsey asked this question to hundreds of PE CEOs. These people say they are successful managers (and therefore lead successful companies) because: It seems almost too simple. If you only need five ingredients to be a top manager with huge wages […]
Much has been written about the spiral, as a form widely spread in nature and as the foundation of movements in Martial Arts. In our practice, we are all committed to achieve personal improvement, which starts from an improvement in the technical movement that is proposed to us and that, if we teach, we in […]
Excuse me, was your father a thief? Because he stole the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes… During middle school I was in an all-boys section and some claimed that these crazy sentences worked to impress girls. I had dismissed all of this as that kind of absurd attitudes -and terribly […]
Any activity involving two or more people may be seen as an interaction, more or less complex. Since it is not possible to keep an interaction in a constant state of neutrality, the interaction itself generates an exchange of actions, a kind of giving and receiving. It is not possible to come into contact with […]
The average Aikidoka doesn’t like to hear about control. Control seems contrary to spontaneity, it gives the image of a coercive action, of a manipulative and disproportionate use of force. The average Aikidoka really likes to stand in front of a mirror. Not to see himself/herself as he/she is, but rather to flatter and convince […]
In the soundtrack of a famous movie from the 007 saga, Sam Smith sings: If I risk it all, could you break my fall? We have written -and will continue to discuss about that- many times about falling. We can talk about falls from a didactic, technical, experiential, functional, aesthetic point of view… We have […]
Playing with words can be fun, if done in moderation. So when we refer to Aikido (or any martial discipline) as an ideal discipline for the integral development of the individual, we are faced with three chances. If we are equipped with a standard, well-operating brain, we read the sentence for what it is: Aikido […]
Supporting people development means knowing how to deal with their vulnerabilities. Those operators who work with those people who society places on the margins due to traumas in their experiences, economic difficulties and cultural barriers know this well. For such people it is essential to develop a certain capacity for resilience, drawing on their own […]
Aikido wa ichiban budo desu – 合気道は一番武道です。 This sentence from the founder of Aikido pops up cyclically. In some articles, in some conversations among practitioners, during training at the Dojo or attending some seminar. An evergreen, in short. But what does it mean? If we ask the various practitioners who grew up with a drip […]
Recovering the meaning of what we do every day is a goal, perhaps the highest, of a martial discipline. The Founder of Aikido often used the term sumikiri (澄み切り). A very interesting term, because the two parts of which it is composed mean “clean cut” but the term in its entirety means “complete serenity”. And […]
