Aikido – Way of Discovery

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, Act 1 scene 4

Aikido is a way of discovery. If you fear failure in training you cannot discover, since each “failure” so-called, is a steppingstone to greater discovery. If there is a most salient attribute of the “human-condition,” it is that we learn best from mistakes. This is the singlemost feature in the dissent between parents and their children. Parents fear that children will make the same mistakes they did to learn the basic but painful lessons of life. Children most often regard their parents as backwards and dated in their thinking and go on to re-learn the same lessons by making the same mistakes. In a new way. Even if they have to sneak out at night. Indeed this feature was foremost in Buddha’s emergence.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”

“Seattle Dojo held its first regional tournament in March 1907,[10] and for decades after, it generally hosted at least one major regional tournament per year. From 1909 through 1941, the usual venue for these tournaments was Seattle’s Nippon Kan Theatre.”

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“The martial arts style of Aikido is an ancient Japanese style of the Samurai that was used after being thrown from their horse. It was first made popular by legendary martial arts star Steven Segal. If Halle takes the role, she’ll take extensive martial arts training at The Aikido Center of Atlanta with Sensei George Kennedy.”

Brian Kagen is an avid web researcher with a particular interest in martial arts. His training background includes both judo and aikido. He has contributed hundreds of article links over the years for AJ readers.

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“Assuming they have supplemental training this is very nice. I can clearly see the parallels in application compared to Bagua.”

Tetsutaka Sugawara was born in Hokkaido in 1941. In 1960, he began Aikido at the Hombu Dojo, Tokyo, under O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido. In 1961, he became uchideshi under O-Sensei at the Ibaraki Dojo.

In 1964, he returned to Tokyo and entered Chuo University. In 1973, he established Minato Research and Publishing Co. (currently Sugawara Martial Arts Institute, Inc.) In 1975, he entered the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu recieving the ‘kyoshi’ instructor’s license in 1986.

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