Hildesheimer Aikido Verein e.V.

Hayashi Akihisa has been practising Shorinjiryu Renshinkan Karatedo for 14 years. The 18-year-old holds the 2nd dan and has competed in prefectural and national tournaments. Akihisa has played basketball for eight years and is a member of the school team, competing in regional tournaments. His sensei and father is Hayashi Mitsushiro, and he looks up to Budoka Iwao Tamotsu, the second-generation headmaster of the Shorinjiryu Karatedo Renshinkan. Renshinkan is a style of Japanese karate founded in 1955 by Isamu Tamotsu and practised worldwide. ‚Shōrinji-ryū‘ means ‚Small Forest Temple Style‘ (referencing the Shaolin Temple), while ‚Renshinkan‘ translates as ‚the school where you study hard with feeling from the heart/soul‘. The founder combined Okinawan karate with southern Chinese Shaolin and kempo styles, as well as elements of judo and jujutsu. Renshinkan is practised worldwide, focusing heavily on budo principles, personal development and character building. Akihisa demonstrates the kata Ananku (meaning ‚Light/Peace from the South‘). This kata is attributed to the legendary Okinawan martial artist Chōtoku Kyan. It is said that Master Kyan either learned the techniques during a trip to Taiwan, or created the kata himself in 1895, combining the Chinese martial arts concepts (quanfa) that he had observed during his travels. The kata was seamlessly integrated into Shorinji-ryu Renshinkan by its founder, who studied Kyan’s Okinawan traditions in depth. Renshinkan is a modern budo that acknowledges its Chinese origins. Any aikidoka interested in the origins of their art will know that essential practices of its founder, Morihei Ueshiba, have Chinese roots. As the title of Ellis Amdur’s autobiographical reflection on his martial path suggests: 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸

The Hildesheimer Aikido Verein is taking part in the 53rd Deutsch-Japanischer Sportjugend-Simultanaustausch.

You can practise aikido five days a week in Hildesheim. Visit the website:
https://www.aikido-in-hildesheim.de/

“The power of belief helps people grow.” (Akihisa’s kurrent favourite quote)