Everyone has their own tastes, even if sometimes incomprehensible. There are those who put pineapple on pizza, those who state that trap music is beautiful, those who dress socks when wearing sandals… Nevertheless, up to now, we have not yet found on our path Aikido practitioners madly in love with koshinage. Why? Is it because […]
Tag: techniques
What’s up if we let go the waza?
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 […]
Second principle, few seconds to decide
The current categorization of Aikido techniques splits up the content of the technical program into six principles, ikkyo, nikyo, sankyo, yonkyo, gokyo and rokyo, as the result of a development and a grouping of legacy principles that derived from war techniques, or bujutsu. It is known and repeated to death that Aikido is an art that […]