Aikido and the Art of Designing Many artists describe creativity as a dynamic interaction with materials and ideas, not control over them. This is conceptually very close to the Aikido principle of “joining and leading energy.” 1. Blending (Awase) → …
Aiki Flow: The first 3 Characteristics for Personal Development Bookshelves are full of countless books claiming to be the most comprehensive instructional manuals for facilitating Personal Development. Do I now suggest that where all others have failed, AikiFlow has succeeded? …
If you look at most teaching manuals they are essentially Nage centric in their approach to teaching Aikido, perhaps in the beginning of the manual there will be a brief description of how to fall, how to do a forward roll, backward roll, knee walking and so on. However the focus of most manuals are the movements of Nage with little explanation about Uke. To better understand Aiki a better grasp of Ukemi is required. Ukemi in this context refers to the movements of uke not only how they preform the attacks but equally how they respond to nage’s defensive techniques.