Aikido: The Peaceful Martial Art

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Aikido is a martial art unlike any other. It contains no attacks, only defense, and this defense will have to be so gentle that even the attacker is delighted by it. There’s no competition, since each and every participant will have to be a winner. It’s an art that takes an entire life to be informed.

This book presents the principles and basic concepts of aikido, which is deeply rooted in Eastern philosophy and the refined ideals of the samurai. It isn’t a technical manual, but an exploration of the thoughts and theories at work in aikido practice.

The book elaborates on the ethics involved in practicing this martial art, the philosophy on which it’s founded, and the attitude needed to progress in aikido. It also goes through the many significant Japanese terms used, explaining their meaning in training in addition to in the martial arts context and theory.

A few of the terms explored are the three words that make up the name of the art: ai, joining, ki, the universal life energy, and do, the way. Tanden, the center, may be explained thoroughly, as is kiai, the concentration of energy, takemusu, the ideal of improvised martial arts, and lots of other concepts used in aikido in addition to the other Japanese martial arts.

One chapter is dedicated to kototama, the cosmology of sounds that the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, studied intensely. There may be a dictionary of the terminology used in aikido.

Later editions of the book are published as Aikido Principles: Basic Concepts of the Peaceful Martial Art.
ISBN13: 9781419658792
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