Aikido México Kihon Dojo

Esta noche Aiki Taiso 7:30 pm por Facebook live. Iniciamos con algunas ideas 😊🙇‍♂️

No siempre debemos estar en el tatami golpeándonos para hacer Aikido😉. Es tiempo de cuidarnos y cuidar nuestro entorno.
¿Alguna idea interesante para seguir en contacto y manteniendo nuestra actividad?

Pronto haremos la fiesta del regreso 🙇‍♂️🍻🍾

Aikidokas de Kihon Dojo
Nuestra práctica encierra una idea de fondo. CUIDADO. De nosotros mismos y del entorno.
Estamos pasando por una situación “diferente”. Nos hace reflexionar muchas cosas y, sin duda, hace que nuestros hábitos deban ajustarse. Así lo debemos hacer en nuestro Dojo. Ayer, en la conversación que sostuvimos, se pudo observar que algunas y algunos desean mantener sus prácticas, otros no y otros lo están valorando. Como de costumbre, en nuestra comunidad, las diversas opiniones son escuchadas y valoradas. En verdad admiro la agudeza de pensamiento de quienes asistimos al Dojo.
Estas palabras, además de su opinión, tienen en cuenta la perspectiva de personas que trabajan en la salud. Son ideas fundamentadas.
En síntesis, continuaremos clases regulares como sigue.
De lunes a viernes en las noches de 7:30 a 8:30 pm; martes, miércoles y jueves de 7 a 8 am; sábado y domingo de 9:30 a 10:30 am.
Para mantener nuestras prácticas:
1. Debemos lavarnos las manos entrando al Dojo con abundante agua y jabón.
2. Nos saludaremos en la forma tradicional japonesa, evitando contacto físico.
3. Traeremos nuestros bokken y jo (los podremos dejar en el Dojo) ya que enfatizaremos las clases con armas. Mantendremos pulcras las armas, tanto las propias como las del Dojo. Las debemos limpiar antes y después de su uso.
4. Cuidaremos, mucho más que de costumbre, la limpieza de nuestro Dojo (tatami, vestidores y áreas comunes).
5. Nuestras clases serán de un máximo de 15 personas. Si llegaste tarde y ves que ya somos 15 con el gi puesto. Podrás entrar al Dojo pero sólo a observar.
6. Si tienes algún síntoma como tos, fiebre o simplemente sientes que no es un buen día para ir al dojo, quédate en casa. Cuando todo pase, nos podremos sentar juntos como de costumbre, a platicar de lo que hicimos en estos días.
7. Tomaremos mucha agua durante la práctica.
Ten en cuenta que:
- Un Dojo no son las paredes; es la comunidad que con años, retos y sentires hemos construido (recuerden las historias de la alfombra y sientan orgullo por el espacio que tenemos ahora🙌).
- Si necesitas ayuda, seguro alguna persona de la comunidad tendrá alguna idea de cómo hacerlo. Hemos compartido sudor, dolor, risas, tacos, cervezas. No se aíslen, hay teléfonos si quieren permanecer en casa y hay pláticas si deciden asistir al Dojo.
- No olvides seguir cooperando con tu dojo, las cuotas pagan la renta y algunas comidas de tus sensei. Son importantes, pero no son la única manera de cooperar. Piensa en lo que te ha enseñado el Aikido y te darás cuenta que en realidad no tiene precio (y no es comercial de mastercard)🙇‍♂️.
- Es momento de mantenernos juntos, y no como de costumbre, intercambiando sudor de formas poco estéticas, o con atemis burlones que nos enseñan a mantener la guardia. Es un buen tiempo para fortalecer nuestra comunidad. Esto pasará y como de costumbre después de la caída, nos pararemos y seguiremos. Tendremos una fiesta para celebrar que seguimos vivos y bien (como no podemos inventarnos fiestas será un reto…si, claro je je)💪🥋💃🕺🌮🍻
Se les quiere harto.
Yesid

Gracias por un maravilloso 2019 Kihon, gracias por este inicio de 2020. Seguro nos esperan bellas sorpresas 😊🙇‍♂️

PD: La mayoría de las fotos son de lulú 😊

El Aikido promete que su práctica te llevará a la armonía con la naturaleza y a gestionar los conflictos de manera pacífica, pero no te promete que te llevará a lugares maravillosos con gente igual de increíble a pasar fines de semana inolvidables. Vamos a Panamá a disfrutar los verdaderos beneficios del camino.

Los visitantes ilustres no paran en nuestro dojo. Jueves 21 a las 7:30 pm. Cooperación voluntaria con Sensei Jean-rene Leduc 6 Dan.

Nos vemos el martes a las 7 pm con Sensei Andrew Humpreys. Al terminar como de costumbre tacos y cerveza. 🌮🍻🥋🙇‍♂️

Que tal su fin? El de nuestro dojo así. Unos por acá y otros por allá. Nos vemos en el Dojo para seguir en el camino 🙇‍♂️🍻🌮

Frase tomada y adaptada de Aikido Journal: Yoshimitsu Yamada on O-Sensei and the Future of Aikido

🤔Para pensar

Doshu K. Ueshiba
Part Two (Ukemi)

There were typically six or so Uchideshi living in Hombu Dojo so we all got some Ukemi from Doshu with the majority of it being taken by whomever was senior. In my time this was usually Mr. Kuribayashi and Mr Kanazawa.

The Japanese in general and Doshu in particular like to operate in a routine with one of us getting used for one type of technique and one for another etc. My general position was for Iriminage for Doshu. Which is a little odd now that I think about it, as I was a lot taller and generally bigger than him, so sticking with him and tracking his motion took some doing. Especially in the beginning coming from the huge powerful throws of Chiba Sensei where it was never a question of being sensitive to small motions, you were just going. This sort of approach is fantastic on a certain level, like a conditioning level where you need to have a big powerful motion coming towards you to open up a place of deep power inside. Come to find out though it’s only half the picture, and being extremely sensitive and reactive to small cues and motions from the teacher and responding fully with your whole self to this actually ends up cultivating internal power as well but from the opposite approach.

So I always thought to myself “why does he use me for Iriminage?” This whole running around then flying out at the end was very different to me and I was constantly afraid of screwing it up and making him look bad. I don’t think he cared that much though and probably just on some level felt it was right for me and did it. Because of the oddness of this along with the experience of taking Ukemi for a lot of other Hombu Shihan who had very disparate technique, I came to stand on a principle which in hindsight I realize gave me a huge help;
RELATE TO THEIR CENTER WITH MY CENTER; never mind the technique. This is a big deal as a centerline to a centerline is basically two areas of possible martial action coming into and out of contact and bouncing off each other. Martially this is also known as the danger zone and
Ukemi involves knowing exactly where this is all the time. In this case it was to become bone deep and instinctual. I think this is incredibly important. The other principle is sort of an extension of Japanese culture and philosophy; treat a small thing as a big thing and this naturally provides training where there may not have been any previously.

Doshu's teaching methodology was this way, his techniques were not crushing necessarily (other than Nikkyo!!!) but he was just kind of there for me to intuit deeply and bounce off of. Small motions to create big responses. This was an absolutely massive lesson.

Concurrent with this is the cultivation of touch in the art. Specifically a deepening of touch based upon sensitivity. Aikido body could be described as a body that is hard on the inside and soft on the outside or simultaneously hard and soft with total permeability between the two states in one moment. Chiba Sensei once told us that the deal with Aikido body is to be able to create space in your very body as you move that your partner naturally drops into. I was probably intoxicated at the moment but could feel this was a gem. I sobered up and took it in and remembered it, as this was my main obsession at the time. What is Aikido body? Actually this was always on my mind.

Do you see where this is going? In Chiba Sensei’s case he came after us full and hard with weapons, (mostly Ismail Hasan Sensei and I) he was never one to hold back with us, and we were expected to stay with him all the way. And by stay with it in that case meant something very very specific. Stay with it and don’t bail on the technique. Don’t get hit but don’t run away from the technique either. To the uninitiated this sounds like something halfway to madness and damn close to impossible both of which were true -except it wasn’t if you kept a certain type of mindset. Through trial and error(a lot of that) I found it if I constantly thought of our wooden weapons as live blades and told myself the time to move was when Chiba Sensei’s weapon was touching the hair on the back of my arms. Somehow this idea raised my body awareness up and out of the inside and out to the area around my body and I could start feeling where the blow was coming from and generally metabolize it. At any rate rather than screaming and scowling at me he just scowled, so I took this as a positive.

So now you should be able to sort of get the picture as I did eventually. Aikido training is basically a martial arts metaphor for the purpose of developing a martial sense in your body/ mind /spirit /self.

Aikido’s essential nature is that it is practiced in secret. Right out in the open, yet the true effect of it it is hidden from plain view. This is as Japanese as it gets. What then is the difference in outcome for me and taking a quick wave of Doshu's hand and responding with my full body by flying out in Iriminage Ukemi or letting my hands and body go with Chiba Sensei’s kiriotoshi. One would do nothing in the moment to injure me certainly, the other most certainly would. The answer is nothing, absolutely nothing. The principles are the same in spite of the appearance of being totally different.

Picture of Ichui ku Kai Dojo.
Tokyo, Japan 1990

En 8 días recibimos a (marzo 15, 16 y 17). 13 instructores que nos visitan de diferentes países, amablemente compartirán su tiempo y enseñanza en nuestro dojo de la calle Victor Hugo, cerca al metro Portales. . Todas y todos los participantes del seminario están cordialmente invitados a participar en estas clases. 😊🙇‍♂️
PD: Por favor llegar temprano a estas sesiones, habrá cupo limitado debido al espacio.