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Aikido
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1st Question: What is aikido about?
Answer: aikido is a non-competitive martial art offering a
way
to get the harmony of all man's vital energies.
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2nd Question: Where was it born from?
Answer: aikido's origins are in Aiki Jutsu, a secret martial art
practiced in fights. At the beginning of 20th century Sokaku
Takeda opened his clan school to external practitioners;
among his disciples there was Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969)
the future founder of aikido
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3rd Question: What about Ueshiba aikido?
Answer: Ueshiba aikido is made up of staff's techniques,
Takeda school sword's techniques and naked hands'
techniques coming from Aiki Jutsu.
All these techniques aim to get victory through peace.
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Practice
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1st Question: Why practicing aikido?
Answer: aikido is a self-defense practice offering many
techniques, often spectacular, to avoid any kind of attack by one or more
persons. But aikido is not only a body discipline, it
becomes a way of life.
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2nd Question: Who can practice aikido?
Answer: aikido, because of its own characteristics, can be
practiced by anybody, whatever sex or age he or she is.
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3rd Question: Which are the used weapons?
Answer: Weapons used by Kobayashi school are:
JO (short wooden staff), BOKKEN (wooden sword)
TANTO (wooden dagger) and the body.
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Clothes
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1st Question: What should I wear on tatami?
Answer: aikido is practiced wearing keikogi (kimono)
hakama (for more than 1st dan), obi (belt) and zoori (slippers).
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Trousers |
Obi - Zoori |
Hakama |
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2nd Question: What is hakama?
Answer: hakama is a divided skirt usually worn in Japan
as ceremony dress. In the Dojo it's worn by ranks higher than 1st dan.
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