One of the many aspects that has a deep impact on those who visit Japan is seeing so many elderly people busy in the most disparate activities. Someone supervises an intersection to ensure the safety of children crossing. Some other sweeps off the leaves on the square in front of a temple. Other people dedicate […]
In a discipline such as Aikido, who is in charge to decide which techniques should be contained in a program to be passed down and which should not? On what basis? If we look at Aikido and compare it with Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu, in which Morihei Ueshiba trained before starting to develop the discipline we […]
This week we host a contribution from Dr. Alice Viani, Dietitian and specialist in Sports Nutrition. In her job, she deals with nutrition, especially in combat sports, evaluating not only the aspect of weight control, but also the psychological impacts. Athletes are followed on their path towards a healthy and correct diet where a balanced diet becomes an […]
WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior recommend at least 150 to 300 minutes per week of moderate aerobic activity. On average, an Aikido practitioner attends a class two, three times a week and therefore WHO can be satisfied… Yet obviously the point is another: How can we ensure that every keiko, every training […]
We frequently come across articles, essays, conferences and studies that more or less contain the sentence: “What future for…” to which must be added the topic on which we are debating, in a more or less worried way. It is therefore normal that this also happens for martial disciplines and therefore also for Aikido. Don’t […]
The experience of limit is one of the forces that has always driven our existence. A spark that ignites the processes that lead to discoveries, inventions and new solutions so that the living conditions of many -and still in too few cases: of everyone- improve. Yet, despite life expectancy having almost doubled in the last […]
Over the last two decades, every year a world-famous teacher held a seminar in our town. For the event, practitioners arrived from many countries. One of these gave us the gift of his patience, dedicating himself to us, who came from different technical backgrounds, hence allowing us to decode teacher’s didactic proposal. Having become friends […]
When we began practicing Aikido, we received a copy of the technical program from our teacher. The peculiarity consisted in the fact that, for each rank, an indication was given about the methodology of the test. We started from these indications for the first fifth kyu test: There is no real chance of failing the […]
A few women on the tatami? Let’s try to reflect on that. If we limit ourselves to saying that the majority of practitioners of a Martial Arts course is made by males, we are stating something obvious. There are more and more signs of a slow reversal of such a trend -in the Dojo where […]
Some time ago we wrote a post: Carrot and stick: kumi jo and fourtwelve steps kata. Summarizing, in that post we wrote that what may appear from the outside when looking at jo exercises, especially in relation to the various forms – kata, may sound messy. From the inside it often has the flavor of […]
