Aikido Kids Guide 0
Aikido Kids Guide 0
Aikido Kids Guide 0
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Respect is one of our DOJO’s (practice location) main values. Please respect
each other’s differences.
TO REMEMBER:
¾ Please be punctual;
¾ Make sure that your GI (kimono) is clean and does not smell at all times;
¾ If you are late, please wait outside until the instructor gives you the
authorization to access the mat surface;
¾ A few minutes before the class starts, sit in SEIZA (on your knees) forming
a line in front of the picture of O’Sensei (the founder of Aikido). The
student with the highest rank sits on the extreme left of the line and the
most junior student sits on the extreme right of the line;
¾ At the end of each class bow to your instructor and then to O’Sensei.
¾ When your instructor shows you something during the class, sit in SEIZA
and thank him after the demonstration by bowing to him;
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¾ At the end of the class, bow to all students with who you have trained
during the class;
¾ If you wish to leave the TATAMI (mat surface) during class, please ask
your instructor’s authorization;
¾ If you sweat a lot while you are training, keep a handkerchief on you;
The well being of each student is very important for us, therefore, if there is
anything which bothers you, please talk to one of your instructors about it.
ENJOY TRAINING!!!
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Counting
Manneer
Roles
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Posture
Falls (Ukemis)
Warm up
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Category of movements
Attacks
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Techniques
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Morihei Ueshiba was born on December 14, 1883 in Tanabe, a town in the
prefecture of Wakayama, Japan.
After having studied numerous martial arts during his youth and being marked by
several encounters, Morihei Ueshiba whom his students often called O’Sensei
(which means Great Teacher) because of his great expertise in martial arts gave
his training a new direction by eliminating the notion of enemy and winner of a
fight.
He envisioned Aikido not only as the synthesis of his martial art training but as an
expression of universal peace and reconciliation.
In 1927, he opened his first dojo called Kokuban. Today it is known as Aikikai
Hombu Dojo and is located in the neighborhood Shinjuku inTokyo.
Morihei Ueshiba first taught most of Daito Ryu Jujutsu’s curriculum which Sokaku
Takeda had passed on to him. He combined it with techniques of Kenjutsu and
Jojutsu adapting them to form a more “peaceful” martial art.
He named his style Daito Ryu Aiki Jutus until Takeda forbid it in 1922; he then
named it Ueshiba Ryu Jujutsu until 1924, Ueshiba Ryu between 1925 and 1926,
and finally Aiki Budo from 1927 onwards as well as Kobu Budo and Aikinomichi.
The Aikido Morihei Ueshiba was practicing in this early period was still very close
to Daito Ryu but some authors also mention a Chinese influence. It was a more
violent style than the one he developed in later years.
In 1940 O’Sensei had a second vision. Discarding all techniques he learnt until
then, he envisioned them under a different angle, not only as means to project or
immobilize an opponent but as a vehicle to opening up to life, to knowledge,
virtue and to common sense. During the final years of O’Sensei, the Aikido of
flowing circular movements was born.
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In 1942 he decided to call it Aikido. In the same year he opened a dojo in Iwama
and dedicated a temple to Aikido which has been reconstructed at the beginning
of 1960.
After the Second World War, there was a hiatus on all Japanese Martial Arts and
in 1952 Aikido was the first Martial Art which could be taught again in a school.
Since Morihei Ueshiba always considered his martial art as a gift to humanity, he
did everything he could, even though he only spoke Japanese, to promote it
internationally by sending emissaries to several European countries and to
America. He also accepted foreigners who wished to train in Japan and who had
the required determination.
During the years following the Second World War O’Sensei started to give public
demonstrations of his art which largely contributed to its visibility among the
Japanese public.
The founder of Aikido did not worry about transmitting his art. He retired at the
end of the war to a little village called Iwama and only visited some dojos of his
former students. He considered it being the responsibility of his most advanced
students to spread Aikido around the world.