Let’s state this from the beginning, so that perhaps this will help those who have a little allergy to “church things”: this wants to be a “secular post”, brutally secular. These days are traditionally dedicated to the memory of those who are no longer here. Maybe because it is an extremely private and sensitive subject. […]
Does it make sense to question, one more time, about truth?To what extent can the practice of a discipline support or not this research? Referring the topic of truth the human being put a lot of effort and much has been said. Let’s just think about philosophers but also the various sciences: we have to […]
In these days the International Olympic Committee has decided that, starting from the 2024 Olympics, Karate will give way to the new incoming: Break-dance. The news can be an useful a stimulus for reflection, especially if made from the perspective of those who practice a martial art without competitions and competitions as Aikido is. The […]
Milan, Central Station. A hot afternoon in this strange August. Trains that depart and arrive and, in the atrium, a bustle of many travelers who invariably stop in front of the large board to check timetables. It happens that, not far from us, a small dog begins to have a bout of diarrhea. Its owner, […]
All martial arts and all combat systems accurately study the concepts of distance and space. Just as we did for kuzushi (unbalancing), also in this case, we start from the Japanese ideogram “ma”, 間. In this kanji its two components can be identified: in the center, enclosed by the stylization of a door (門, kado), […]
In Martial Arts, we soon become familiar with the principle of kuzushi (崩 し). It is a term that we may translate with “imbalance“. Yet the verb from which it derives, kuzureru, has a deeper semantics: collapse, crumble, demolish … An interesting etymological work by Noriko Williams helps us to understand the birth of the […]
Let’s take a bicycle pump and start to inflate a tire. After a while, we will struggle to compress the piston. In addition, we will begin to feel heat coming from the pump. From Nature, we always learn many things. In this case by the laws of gas. Pressure and temperature are linearly related to […]
According to etiquette, politics should never be discussed when sharing time at lunch. Probably politics should never be discussed anywhere else. We have all been witnesses, at least once in a life, of situations degenerating because someone, at some point, had the bright idea of speaking about that topic. However, it seems useful to share […]
Recently an online petition has sparked a long series of controversies within the United States Aikido Federation. A group of women, all aikidoka, sent a formal request to the US federation to address, discuss and resolve some controversial points related to the world of gender-related issues. These five requests (a task force on gender equality, […]
Few days ago, news reported that a drifter suffering from depression after his wife left him has said that he studied passers-by from a bench in Turin for 20 minutes before fatally stabbing the one who looked the happiest. It is worth spending some time reflecting on this news, not only because of its brutality: the […]
