In that small corner of the world we call the Dojo, every dynamic that exists in the larger world outside finds a reflection -especially those relational dynamics that lead us […]
Love on the tatami
Categoria: News and priciples
Who leaves and who stays. And who tends to holiness.
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. […]
Words of freedom: the truth
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 […]
What if IOC erases Karate…
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 […]
Alone like a dog (with a stomachahe)
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 […]
You cannot lock the Sun in a room: the concept of “ma” (space)
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 […]
Kuzushi: illusions crumble, certainties rise
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 […]
Returning to what kind of normality?
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 […]
Martial Arts and Politics…The strange couple
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 […]
Gender equality on the mat
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 […]