An effective self-defense does not have to be violent and destructive. The dynamics of Aikido allow for an appropriate response to challenging situations. Aikido gives us the choice of a hard or soft response, and the calmness of mind to choose appropriately. The techniques of Aikido primarily consist of throws and joint locks that do not require physical strength to execute.
Principles of harmony, blending with adversity, and leading a conflict to a positive resolution makes Aikido applicable to physical conflict as well as daily life. We are located in Sunnyvale and easily accessible to the greater San Jose area.
Principles of harmony, blending with adversity, and leading a conflict to a positive resolution makes Aikido applicable to physical conflict as well as daily life. We are located in Sunnyvale and easily accessible to the greater San Jose area.
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Aikido Silicon Valley consists of students dedicated to pursuing personal growth through the practice of this traditional Japanese martial art. As students of Aikido, we learn to maintain our emotional, spiritual and physical integrity in the face of potentially deadly attacks from one or more committed antagonists by skillfully employing the principles and techniques of Aikido to blend with and neutralize the attacks.
Aikido is a Japanese martial way that follows principles of non-conflict and harmony which can be applied to daily life as well as self-defense. The word Aikido () is made of three characters. Ai () translates to harmonize or unite. Ki () translates to spirit or energy. Do () translates to road or path.
By the mid 1900's, O-Sensei was an expert of several older schools of armed and unarmed combat. The development of Aikido was a combination of his martial arts skills (most notably Daito-ryu Aiki-jujitsu) with his life experiences and philosophy. By the 1920s, O-Sensei was a well sought after instructor of his martial art, referred to as Aiki-budo at that time.
Blending with an attack means to unite with the energy of the attack instead of clashing with it. It is like two rivers merging together into one single flow. Uniting with the energy of the attack allows us to take control and redirect that energy to an appropriate resolution. An object is stable when its center of gravity is over its base of support.
Aikido is practiced with cooperative training instead of competitive training. An example of competitive training is sparring in boxing or a Judo match. In Aikido, one student executes the technique (nage ) and that student's partner receives the technique (uke ), then the roles are reversed. It is through this training that there are no winners or losers.
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