Aikido Thoughts

Point of The Triangle found in Bath

2006-04-02T20:24:34+02:00

Excellent Aikido seminar this weekend!
Friday night, all day Saturday and this morning spent throwing people around!

Bath Universtity has some excellent facilities, including a purpose built judo dojo.

I'm hoping this will kick start my 3rd Dan training, It's good to realise some things don't change, such as "finding the point of the triangle"

This is the point at which your uke goes light. How do you find it?

Look at your uke's feet, imagine they form the base of an isolese triangle. The distance to the point of the triangle is the approx length of their arm. Extending your ki to this position brings about an effortless throw.

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Mind Moves Body (3)

2006-03-13T19:25:27+01:00

Just a little something to try at home!

Form a circle with your thumb and fore finger (like the ok gesture).
Ask a friend, relative or passing stranger to try to prise your finger and thumb apart. Really concentrate on not letting them do it.
You may find that they break the circle quite easily.

Now do the same thing. This time, image that there is a steel ring inside your finger and thumb, forming a comlete circle. No way can anyone break this steel ring, go on laugh at them as they try to pull your finger and thumb apart.

Let me know how you get on.

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Mind Moves Body (2)

2006-03-10T19:49:30+01:00

It is so easy to get stuck, I had an instance earlier this week, when a work friend and I had a little scuffle (larking about).
Someone, watching this, said

I understand you teach martial Arts

.
Eager to show off, I took my colleague by the wrist in order to show my perfectly honed Kote Geish (devilish wrist bending technique). He promptly tensed his arm, blocking the effectiveness of the technique. Forgetting the requirement of not leading your oppenent where he dosn't want to go, it all ended up in an unseemly struggle.

Dosen't always work in practice, does it!

, says the onlooker, before wandering off.
Moral of the story, don't do aikido, unless you are prepared to be humbled on a regular basis.

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Mind Moves Body

2006-03-10T14:44:26+01:00

It is said that one of the most important principles of Ki Aikido is that "Mind Moves Body"
This is an incredibly difficult to achieve.
When you try to throw somebody with bodily force their mind is resistant to that action.
Fine if you you have the strength to overcome that resistance, but not if your partner is of equal or greater stature.
I partnered a friend of mine in his 2nd dan grading for Kung Fu.
He was 6ft plus, weighed in at 16 stone and his technique involved picking up his attacker (me!) and pile driving into the ground (using a crash mat thankfully!)
I came to the realisation at that point that hard style martial arts had it's limitation's.
Much better to guide your attacker and pursuade him to throw himself to the floor.

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John's Aikido Club

2006-03-09T20:34:27+01:00

My name is John (as you can tell from the title) and I have an aikido club (as you can tell from the title).
My class is quite small, which is the way I like it. Unlike some of the harder martial arts styles, you can't cram the students in.
I've had my club for about 18 months. Teaching Aikido, is my way of relaxing,
My top student is Daisy, (my partner), who is always whingeing about going but enjoys it when she gets there.

This is Daisy
"Aikido seems such a gentle form of excercise but after you've picked yourself up from the floor the umpteenth time you realise that it must be doing you some good! I've also discovered the joy of reducing full grown men to a heap on the floor, it gives me such pleasure."

Thank you Daisy, that's it for us.

Sensei John and chief student Daisy

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