Hi just thought I'd begin a new thread for Aikido, so Mark, Aikipansy and I, and whoever else can chat about Aikido.
I would love for you to expand on what you wrote, and post some videos showing what you wrote about. Do you practice Aikido?
I read from a couple of sources that it evolved from O'sensi Ueshiba's training in Aiki-Ju Jitsu. I suppose it's like trying to find several master who agree on the origins of Tai Chi, or any martial art for that matter.
The secret is in the misogi training, these are the vital (and secret) solo exercises derived from Chinese Chi-gongs to develop the body mechanics to learn rooting, aikido's fajin (Japanese:shunpatsuryoku, or instant-release power), and enable practitioners to do takemusu aikido. Yes, not Taijiquan mechanics, perhaps more like Shaolin with emphasis on toe and back. And yes, breath (pressure to solidify connections or absorb) is added to body structure power as a highest level power generation. That misogi is "taught" as a warm-up and only half-heartedly is truly sad. Most aikidoists even in Japan have no real base, and cannot understand the techniques other than through external shape, and very few teachers who know how to do stuff really well are prepared to teach it. It's hard to spot the real thing too, when you don't know what you're looking for :-)
I met a fairly good aikido practitioner in Tokyo last year who told me Aikido was developed from an art called Yuwara. Or at least thats what I thought he said. (My Japanese and his English were terrible...) What are your thoughts on this?
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