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 […]
The integral of a integral discipline
Categoria: Martial Arts
The teacher as a resilience tutor
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, […]
Ichiban and the obsession for measures
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 […]
Sumikiri: recovering the meaning
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 […]
Between trust and rebellion
A child is completely dependent on his parents. It is no coincidence that in the early years, mum and dad are usually children’s heroes. At the same time, however, around […]
Serving “the” society, serving “to” the society
In the first of his books, Morihiro Saito tells of when he presented himself to Morihei Ueshiba to be accepted as his student: Sensei stared at me and asked, “Why […]
The Aikido of conciliation: Morihei Ueshiba and his first year of Aikido
It took me several years before I understood and felt that Ueshiba Sensei’s Aikido was very different from that of his disciples. It must also be said that each of […]
Three ways to train freedom
At least in words, everyone desires freedom. Anyone wants to express his choices without constraints and thus determine his, her own life. The last years, with the pandemic first and […]
Infinite in the finite
In the Dojo where we practice, we dedicated the last three years to building a vast archive of the technical program, now available on YouTube. An intense work, which to […]
Try or try not. There is no do.
Yes, it’s true: that alien O Sensei, green but still with almond-shaped eyes who speaks with verbs in the infinitive form, said: “Do. Or do not. There is no try”. […]