Aikidoforlife Lebanon

techniques that were used by the Samurai and other Japanese warriors, Aikido has basically only twenty techniques which can be combined in almost endless ways. Aikido has techniques in which a sword (bokken), a wooden stave (jo) or a wooden knife (tanto) may be used as well as techniques that do not require the use of any weapons. In Aikido, the attacker and the defender are not supposed to engage in a war of brute force, testing the strength of each other. On the contrary, as the name of Aikido suggests, the defender is supposed to harmonize with the attacker’smove, receive the attacker’s energy, and redirect this energy back to him/her using body motions without initiating any direct offense. The critical feature is to control the balance of the attacker. The way to achieve this is to push his center off balance through keeping constant motion instead of a static body.