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꧁•⊹٭𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚊٭⊹•꧂

What is Aikido?

Connect. Lead. Resolve.

Aikido is a Martial Art that addresses conflict by affecting the flow of an Opponent's energy, instead of addressing the Opponent's physical technique.

It doesn't matter whether it's a punch or a grab, all attacks are simply vehicles to transfer the kinetic energy into a target. There are two ways to resolve this;

Stop the technique.

Take out the energy that fuels the technique.

Aikido focuses on the latter method, and its technique teaches a student how to sense, affect, and ultimately harmonize with the energy of an attack.

If you know how to affect the energy, or Ki, of an Opponent's attack, it doesn't really matter what the Opponent's attack is.

Mastery;

Roads, up the Mountain;

Many, upon to be trod;

Peak, crested, just one;

Aikido Kaeshiwaza

A rant about exercise

Females tend to have strong lower bodies and males tend to have strong upper bodies. That's the way our bodies are built. Our bones are shaped that way.

If you want to do full-body tasks well, you have to exercise your whole body equally. For someone like me, that means push-ups. They're not difficult; though I have to force myself to continue, I am healthy and capable.

I ran across a male someone recently that I watched do an Aikido technique with the footwork completely wrong. I called him on it, and he groaned as if to say, 'silly girl' and attempted to throw me without using his lower body at all. I humored him and moved.

Now, I am not a very large person. It wouldn't be hard for him to  pick me up and toss me away, and yet when he had to throw me he cheated to make it less difficult. This is the rough equivalent, to me, of sissy push-ups. I have to work my whole body in Aikido, and I understand that I'll have to do some difficult things for me. Why doesn't he?

If you want to pull off this whole "strong" thing, don't cut corners for the express purpose of sloth. It makes no sense.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to do at least ten twenty more reps of proper push-ups.

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