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 […]
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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 […]