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Aikido The Peaceful Martial Art Stefan Stenudd |
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CONTENTS AIKIDO PRACTICE Aikido Basics Ki exercises Koshinage Kotegaeshi Yonkyo Ikkyo Nikyo Sankyo Attacks in Aikido Aikido Video Clips Nishio videos Tantodori - knife defense Jo 31 Kata Aikibatto sword exercises Aikido Photos My seminars NEW! AIKIDO THEORY Aikido Glossary Ki energy Tanden, the Center Running a Dojo My Aikido Book NEW! My Aikido Book in German Books about aikido Aikido is True Osensei and Einstein Aikido Links About me Visitor Response AIKIDO PÅ SVENSKA STENUDD.COM  AIKIDO The Peaceful Martial Art The book about aikido principles, philosophy and basic concepts. Buy the book at Amazon.  AIKIBATTO The book about the aikibatto sword and staff exercises, practical and spiritual aspects of the sword arts, equipment for training, etc. More about the book here.  QI Increase your life energy The book about the life energy qi, with exercises on how to awaken and use it. More about the book here.  TAOIST SOURCE The Taoist source. The complete Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu.  Shinken - live blade Get a sharp steel katana sword for your iaido or aikibatto solo exercises. Here is how. |
 KOGEKI. Attacks in aikido. 
f course, in aikido training the actual aikido techniqe is done by tori, the defender (also called nage), while the attack of the uke is merely a service so that tori can train. Therefore, it is quite common in aikido training that both partners focus almost completely on the tori role, and neglect that of the uke. It can go so far as to a state very near sleep, when an attack is done, as if this is a moment for rest, until again it is time to be tori.Such a way of training is unfortunate in so many ways. Mainly, one's focus soon becomes blurred also in the tori role, and without increasingly advanced attacks it is impossible to advance in one's aikido. We need to be more skilled as attackers, to be able to teach ourselves and each other higher skills in the defense. I do not primarily mean the self defense aspect, but the way (do) of aikido. When attacks get more precise, focused and sophisticated, then they stimulate the refinement of one's aikido, and one's understanding of its nature. When you show just as much care about your uke role, as you do about your tori role, then it will truly be aikido. The attack form katadori, from a seminar in the Czech Republic. It's more fun, too, if you devote yourself to be uke, an attacker with the attacker's mind and strategy, when your partner is tori - and then switch to tori mind when it's your turn to do aikido techniques. The shift of behavior is good mental training, indeed, sort of instant acting: immediately switching from one role to its opposite. You'll have twice the fun. Below, I present the most common attack techniques (kogeki or kogekiho) in aikido, and say something about what I try to think about when training them. I don't try to be complete. For example, kicks and some rare and odd grips are missing, as well as armed attacks. I may add them later. What is included, though, I hope you find of some interest. In the photos, I do the attacks, and Tomas Ohlsson at my dojo Enighet in Malmö, is the tori. Stefan Stenudd
since July 20, 2004. 
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