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Il fallait des volontaires pour la démo d'aïkido du forum des associations du 10e ce dimanche : devinez qui s'est dévoué 😅
Et ça veut dire aussi aller aux cours du matin cette semaine pour préparer ladite démo 😴

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Today, after an hour of jo practice, we did another hour of bare hands practice on morote dori kokyu ho (three different forms, plus one irimi nage).

I really liked the progression.
- First form was the classic morote dori kokyu ho where you send your arms horizontally.
- Second form, uke was instructed to block the horizontal direction, so we did the technique by first raising our arms vertically and then turning.
- Third form, uke was instructed to block both horizontally and vertically, and actually to push a bit, so we used this push to throw forward.
- Fourth technique, same context and again throwing forward but through an irimi nage.

I really like it when techniques are not applied in a vacuum, or with a "lazy" uke who knows and anticipates what is coming, but as a response to uke's reaction. On Monday we also did a bit of that with ikkyo omote and ura: uke leans forward => ura, uke leans backwards => omote.

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First aikido class of the season! I practiced 15 minutes with my shihan, who was telling me last week that I was lacking strength and cardio. Today he proved it to me 😅

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Final day of the back-to-school aikido week: we started with practising the three jo katate suburi, then applied katate hachi no ji gaeshi on the 4th bis kumijo.

Then we went back to ukemi, the theme of the week. We started with some forward ukemi alone, first normal, then jumping far, then jumping high. We did some more educational exercises, making someone roll while blocking their front arm, which forces a jump into the ukemi.

We finally practiced with several different koshi nage techniques: shomen uchi (with two atemi), katate dori, and one I had never seen before, that starts like shiho nage and keeps the shiho nage into the koshi nage. As uke, this one is much more impressive because one cannot grab the partner's arm in the fall: it requires to fully trust that tori is going to hold us during the ukemi. We didn't do the projection with this one, stopped after charging uke.

We finished with a nice discussion of how and when and why to ukemi, their risk/benefit balance that evolves with time, the joints and articular pain, the hostile and dangerous practitioners and typical aikido injuries.

All in all, this was a very good week to restart the year, and I will try to keep working on my ukemi throughout the year, especially since I will have to present two different forms of koshi nage (among others techniques) for my next kyu!

#aikido

🧿 𝑬𝒍 𝒐𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒍 🧿

En 1979, Steven Seagal todavía no había rodado una sola película.

Tenía 27 años, vivía en Osaka y, aunque hoy cueste imaginarlo, por aquel entonces no era una estrella de Hollywood ni el tipo duro de las películas de acción.
Era un instructor de aikido casado con una mujer que, además, tenía un grado superior al suyo.

Ella era Miyako Fujitani.

Miyako había empezado a practicar aikido en la adolescencia y en 1967, con solo 19 años, realizó su examen de primer dan en Osaka ante Morihei Ueshiba, el fundador del aikido.
Cuando conoció a Seagal en California, ella ya era segundo dan.
Él acababa de conseguir el primero.

Seagal la siguió hasta Japón.
Se casaron y se instalaron en Osaka.
Allí nació su hijo Kentaro en 1975 y, cuatro años después, su hija Ayako.

Y aquí empieza una parte de la historia que Hollywood contó después de una manera bastante diferente.

Miyako ya tenía experiencia y dirigía su propia escuela.
Cuando creó el Tenshin Dojo en Osaka, decidió colocar a su marido como instructor principal, a pesar de que ella tenía una graduación superior.

Seagal comenzó a hacerse un nombre entre los alumnos.
Enseñaba, entrenaba y desarrollaba la forma de aikido que posteriormente convertiría en una de sus principales señas de identidad.

Pero Miyako no era precisamente la esposa que esperaba sentada a que su marido se hiciera famoso.

Ella tenía su propia carrera.

Mientras tanto, Seagal empezó a mirar hacia Estados Unidos.
A comienzos de los años ochenta pasó cada vez más tiempo allí y terminó abriendo una escuela de aikido en California.
El cine apareció después.

Y entonces empezó a crecer también el personaje.

Seagal hablaba de sus años en Japón y de supuestos contactos con agentes de inteligencia y trabajos relacionados con operaciones clandestinas.
Algunas de aquellas historias resultaban difíciles de comprobar y ya en la época de su llegada a Hollywood se señalaba la mezcla entre experiencias reales y relatos mucho más extraordinarios.

Dicho de otra manera: el personaje de Steven Seagal empezó a crecer incluso antes de que existiera la estrella de cine.

En 1988 llegó "Above the Law" y, de repente, aquel instructor de aikido que había pasado años en Japón se convirtió en protagonista de una película de acción.

Hollywood había encontrado su producto perfecto: un hombre que realmente sabía artes marciales, hablaba japonés y además tenía una biografía que parecía escrita para una película de espías.

Pero detrás del personaje había una historia familiar bastante menos cinematográfica.

Miyako se quedó en Japón con sus hijos.
Y cuando Seagal se marchó, el dojo sufrió.
Algunos alumnos dejaron de acudir y hubo clases a las que, según recordaría Miyako, solo asistía una persona.

Ella siguió adelante.

Siguió enseñando, crió a sus hijos y continuó desarrollando su propia carrera hasta alcanzar el séptimo dan de Aikikai.

Y mientras la carrera de su exmarido crecía, la vida de Seagal empezaba a llenarse también de polémicas.

Su matrimonio con Miyako terminó en divorcio en 1987.
Ese mismo año se casó con la actriz Adrienne La Russa, aunque aquel matrimonio fue posteriormente anulado.
Poco después se casó con Kelly LeBrock, con quien tuvo tres hijos, y aquella relación también terminó en divorcio.

Después llegaron más relaciones, más hijos y más titulares.

Y tampoco faltaron problemas en los rodajes.
Varios especialistas y compañeros de trabajo han contado que Seagal tenía fama de golpear con demasiada fuerza durante las escenas de acción.
El especialista Gene LeBell llegó a protagonizar una de las historias más famosas alrededor del actor: según el relato difundido durante años, ambos tuvieron un enfrentamiento en el que LeBell consiguió someterlo.
Seagal ha negado distintas versiones de aquel episodio.

Luego aparecieron acusaciones de acoso y agresión sexual formuladas por varias mujeres.
Seagal negó las acusaciones.

Y cuando parecía que su etapa más extravagante había quedado atrás, llegó Rusia.

Seagal obtuvo la ciudadanía rusa en 2016 y, en 2018, el Gobierno ruso lo nombró representante especial para las relaciones humanitarias entre Rusia y Estados Unidos.
Era un cargo no remunerado, pero bastante llamativo para un actor de Hollywood que llevaba años mostrando públicamente su admiración por Vladímir Putin.

En 2020 tuvo además otro problema muy distinto: la SEC estadounidense anunció que había aceptado pagar 314.000 dólares para resolver los cargos relacionados con la promoción de una oferta de criptomonedas sin revelar que estaba siendo compensado por ello.

Pero volvamos a 1979.

Porque aquella fotografía familiar pertenece precisamente a ese momento.

Antes de las películas.
Antes del ponytail.
Antes de las historias de agentes secretos, de Putin, de las polémicas y del personaje de hombre indestructible que Hollywood fabricaría alrededor de él.

Allí estaba simplemente Steven Seagal, un joven instructor de aikido, junto a Miyako Fujitani, una mujer que sabía tanto o más que él sobre el mundo que acabaría convirtiéndolo en famoso.

Y quizá esa sea la parte más curiosa de toda la historia.

Mientras Hollywood convirtió a Seagal en leyenda, Miyako siguió haciendo exactamente lo mismo que hacía antes de que nadie supiera quién era él: entrar en el tatami, enseñar aikido y continuar con su vida.

Ella no necesitó Hollywood para convertirse en maestra.

Él sí necesitó Hollywood para convertirse en Steven Seagal.

Ah!! Y en 2011 Seagal llevó su imagen de hombre de acción un paso más allá.
Prestó juramento como ayudante del sheriff del condado de Hudspeth, en Texas, y pasó a patrullar un tramo de unas 98 millas de frontera con México.
Su cometido incluía vigilar los cruces ilegales y combatir el narcotráfico.
No era simplemente una aparición publicitaria: ocupó oficialmente el puesto y participó en tareas de vigilancia.
También impartió entrenamiento de defensa personal a otros agentes aprovechando su experiencia en aikido y artes marciales.
El hombre que durante años había interpretado a policías, agentes y tipos duros en el cine ahora llevaba uniforme y patrullaba de verdad la frontera.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPUdDhaBLDQ

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Today, we started with full back rolls (in contrast with the half back rolls that we usually do), that are very rarely used in Iwama aikido, contrarily to other styles. So, we are not very good at them and training them was a good exercise.

We started from a sitting position, and the exercise was to try doing them like a forward roll in reverse, and as controlled and slow as possible. Then we started doing them from a standing position, and to finish them in a standing position too, but getting up without putting a knee on the floor. Finally, the advanced students tried a "roundoff (?)" (rondade en français) version that consists of pushing on the hands against the floor to jump and land on both feet in the end.

Then, we went back to tobi ukemi training, first repeating the kote gaeshi and shiho nage preparation exercises from the previous days, adding to them a koshi nage on shomen uchi. We then did a fun hanmi handachi kata guruma with an impressive ukemi: I really liked this one!

And finally, some real tobi ukemi on shiho nage! I found out that unlike other ukemi, this is not an ukemi that "does itself": uke needs to "jump into it". I am still calibrating how much or how little push I need to give as uke, to properly enter the ukemi.

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If anyone in the #Turku area is interested in getting started with #Aikido, this fall's beginner course at my dojo #TurkuAikikai (https://turkuaikikai.fi) starts on September 7th.

We recently moved to a new, much nicer (if smaller) location, and it would be great to see new practitioners! Most sessions are run in Finnish, but non-Finnish-speaking students have always been accomodated well.

Third day of our back-to-school aikido week: today we were eight. We started with the three "nagare" jo suburi and a few variations that I had never seen before (among which, chaining hidari nagare gaeshi uchi and migi nagare gaeshi tsuki was a fun one). Then we worked on the 6th (I think?) kumijo, one where it's important to put your elbows in front of your face to not be hit in the nose by the partner's jo.

After some more forward roll practice, we did some side rolls, which I knew from judo but are less frequent in aikido (maybe a bit on kaiten nage?). Practicing side rolls together with a partner, face to face, while trying to always keep looking at each other at all time was fun!

Then, still on the theme of ukemi, we practiced some jo dori. I like these ukemi: I find it satisfying to roll pushed by the jo through uke's back hand letting it go as late as possible.

And finally, more tobi ukemi preparations, this time on ryote dori.

The cramps are painful today, I feel stiff and broken 😵

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We did an unusual ken tai jo sequence tonight. Moves that are rarely done and feel a bit weird. It was interesting to get out of our comfort zone.

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Tervetuloa mukaan #aikido #peruskurssi

Today we were only six. We started with some ken suburi (with lots of corrections for me), then the first kumitachi. We then trained the precision of forward ukemi on several tachi dori.

Finally we worked on introduction exercises to setup for tobi ukemi on kote gaeshi and shiho nage, that we keep working on through the week.

My teacher took me apart to tell me that what I might start to need at this point, is some strength and cardio training outside of the aikido classes, to not slow down my progression.
I would probably need to find something that I enjoy doing, but I am not sure what. I swim like a brick, I never really liked running or cycling and gyms never appealed to me. Maybe another martial art? Judo? BJJ? Something else?

What do other aikidoka do to maintain a good physical form?

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I have a room 4m x 5m and ten #tatami mats that come 2m x 1m. I want to do #aikido as well as #shibari in that room and therefore would like to adhere to Japanese tradition in arranging the mats.

Now there are two methods of tatami arrangement, shugijiki 祝儀敷き ("auspicious layout" - festive arrangement; T-junctions, no 4-corner intersections) and fushugijiki 不祝儀敷き ("inauspicious layout" - mourning arrangement; grid pattern, 4-corner intersections).

So I asked an #LLM how to apply auspicious layout to my room and my tatami and this is the sketch I got.

You might not notice output 'quality' of LLMs in fields you're not an expert in, but this is pretty obvious.

Today was the first day of the back-to-school aikido seminar given by our head instructor, with a focus all week long on ukemi. It is still a bit hot in the dojo after a burning summer, so we are taking it easy. We were 9 students: 4 black belts/5 white belts, 6 adults/3 teenagers, 6 women/3 men.

We started with some careful stretching, and then did several exercises to learn rolling and falling, with an emphasis on precision and fluidity rather than on speed.

For the backward roll (useful for example in kokyu ho), we practiced putting one leg on the floor, rolling on the back, and rolling away on the belly to stand up again looking at the partner.

For the forward roll, we practiced doing it as slow and controlled as possible (with the help of a partner holding one of our hands back), then we worked on precision by doing several ukemi between two lines of belts on the ground, that we were progressively pulling tighter together. We ended up with a width about 80% of a tatami width, which was challenging for almost everybody.

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J'ai une belle éraflure sur tout l'avant-bras, j'ai dû me faire râper avec une arme en bois mais je ne l'ai pas senti sur le moment, je l'ai remarqué en me changeant. Bon c'est juste un petit bobo, il y a pire

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Cette semaine je suis en vacances, et il y a stage d'aïkido de fin d'été tous les matins au dojo : quelle coïncidence ! :D
Je verrai si je rajoute les cours réguliers du soir

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@kipriyanovich #Aikido peeps, pay heed to this. ;)

We did some sumo today! My teacher read that O Sensei's students were regularly training sumo at the dojo, so he is trying to make this a custom here too.
We only did that for a couple of minutes.
We were avoiding the initial dangerous shock, so we were starting with each other's belt grabbed with both hands, and at the signal trying to push them outside of a tatami square.
I really enjoyed it!!

#aikido #sumo

Next weekend we will have an #aikido seminar led by our very own Tom Granström (6th dan), starting at 1pm on Saturday in #Rajamäki. There will be weapons practise at 4pm and we will head out for dinner in the evening. Practise continues Sunday at 11.

This will be at the Taekwondo club, Kievarintie 14. Everyone is welcome!

https://www.aikidoliitto.fi/tapahtumat/?tapahtuma=1410

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On the 18th there will be an open seminar of #DaitoRyu Aikijujutsu in Helsinki. No prior experience of the art is needed and great for martial artists interested in historical Japanese #jujutsu (particularly of course those who do #aikido, though there have been all kinds at these events).

Starts at 13:00 at VMA Helsinki. Hosted by #Sasuga.

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/share/18Tb1xV5jT/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Once again a great #DaitoRyu seminar with lots to process. Quite technical, but always with the right position, control, not muscling through.

Should be compulsory for everyone in #aikido ;)

RE: https://attractive.space/@Setok/115864622508428887

A reminder that this #DaitoRyu seminar is coming up this Saturday in Helsinki! Don’t miss it.

#aikido #jujutsu #martialArts

Thoroughly recommend the upcoming #DaitoRyu #Aikijujutsu seminar in Helsinki (Daito Ryu being the precursor of #aikido and #hapkido). Organised by the #Sasuga dojo, they are one of the few places on the planet that still does this Japanese #jujutsu in the oldschool ways. It's eye-opening practise that benefits whatever martial art you do.

The theme this time is combinations, counter-techniques and randori.

31.1 13:00–, at VMA Helsinki (Vellamonkatu 30).

https://www.facebook.com/events/694627440254454

Last Saturday the #Sasuga dojo celebrated 30 years of #DaitoRyu Aikijujutsu in Finland (the parent art of #aikido — one of Sasuga's senseis introduced it to the country). An amazing event with people from over the decades, food created by renowned Korean chef Joon, a large trailer sauna, courtesy of #Palosauna, and a special batch of beer made by #HIISI, branded 'Aiki' — with a label design by yours truly.

On the Sunday after I, uhm, did not go to practise...

Huh, I hit 100% in the #MartialProfile app ‘fitness gauge’. I’ll take that win, regardless of whether it’s actually true or not :D

#aikido #iaido #jujutsu (#DaitoRyu).

Have anyone tried practising aikido-kind (or similar) techniques against kickboxing (or any street style fighting) punches and kicks?
especially the real speed punches?
incl. series of punches?

it sounds like extremely interesting "don´t try this at home" thing to do 😂😂

do people practise someting like this? especially here in Finland?
(without going down on the floor for bjj or at least without choking)

#aikido #bujinkan #martialarts #kickboxing #muaythai #bjj #mma #kravmaga #capoeira #fitness #lifestyle #aikijutsu #Daitoryu #aiki #jujutsu #karate #taekwondo #hapkido

@3morereps oh and in relation to #aikido, #DaitoRyu is very clearly related. So not something 'completely different'. But curriculum is larger than what is usually taught in aikido and, yes, approach is a bit different.

I find their Sasuga's seminars inform my aikido to a great amount. In other words: I better understand what I'm (supposed to be) doing in aikido. The core.

At the same time, the flow in aikido is sometimes very enjoyable.

Spot the Setok!

#aikido #DaitoRyu #Sasuga

From: @must1
https://pixelfed.social/p/must1/791326697160998141

As I’m going to be in #Portugal next week, does anyone know of any good #aikido dojos in #Lisbon? In case I find a moment to pop into practise.

Could also entertain #DaitoRyu or #iaido options (though won’t have my weapons with me).

#Sasuga is putting together a full day seminar on #DaitoRyu #Aikijujutsu (the parent art of #aikido and #hapkido, amongst others) in #Helsinki, 1st Feb. Their seminars have always been very insightful, and they retain some of the oldest teachings of the art. Thoroughly recommend going.

https://facebook.com/events/s/daito-ryu-aikijujutsun-seminaa/1646254666101763/

Our sensei, Tom Granström (6th dan), will be one of the many instructors at next month's '#Aikido Across Borders' event in Vantaa (near Helsinki), Finland. Many styles will be present, from soft to #Tenshin style (which #StevenSeagal did). There will also be #DaitoRyu #Aikijujutsu, courtesy of the #Sasuga dojo and #BarawSugbo from the Philippines. A great opportunity to do a whole weekend of the full spectrum of aiki arts.

https://jukara.fi/ayr2025/

@driusan might be worth a visit at some point. Could be interesting to hear what it’s like :) Though there are nowadays many #DaitoRyu styles too. So it’s not necessarily a case of going to the ‘roots of aikido’. Most of them have evolved at least as much as #aikido from the days of Sokaku Takeda. His son made substantial changes to the curriculum.

Looking to be in #Glasgow for #worldcon (8th Aug – 12th). Any interesting dojos there for #aikido, #DaitoRyu or #iaido (though I won’t have any weapons with me)?

The result of that was a 15-20min post-class informal congregation of a few other newbies, with questions, and a quick no #ukemi demo of forms of #KoteGaeshi that are NOT usually taught, outside of #DaitoRyu and other #Jujutsu forms.

What attracted me to #Aikido was the inclusiveness, the flexibility and optional benevolence of the forms.

Many assume that, because of that optional benevolence, Aikido "doesn't work" because you don't leave a trail of bloody bodies behind you. The Aikido forms are direct from DaitoRyu. We train in a manner to not apply lethality or even likelihood of physical harm (apply #ukemi qualifiers here).

But never make categorical assertions, out of near absolute ignorance, about the effectiveness of a encompassing series of techniques you barely started to discover.Looks foolish.

Namely when someone proceeds to demonstrate a dozen or so forms of that technique you didn't know existed, and which show exactly what you said couldn't happen.

The other day, at the dojo, someone told me, *categorically* that there is NO WAY to execute a #KoteGaeshi without significant #TaiSabaki (full body displacement).

The individual in question is, now, a NiKyu (2nd degree before yudansha/black belt) with about ~5yrs of Aikido (and an alleged "black belt" in TKD, which is worth what it is) training.

The guy is the type to resist techniques and insert his previous exclusive training into the form. His tea cup is so full.

I smirked, stated he might not be right about that, and ignored his further mumbling.

#Aikido #DaitoRyu

@faraiwe yes I’m aware #DaitoRyu #Takeda practised Ono Ha #IttoRyu #kenjutsu. What’s less clear is if he ever taught #aikido founder Ueshiba the Itto Ryu stuff. I would welcome any valid sources that would state that as it would be quite new insight.

The bokken I use in Ono Ha Itto Ryu is not, btw, the same as Iwama bokken. It is thick, yes, and relatively straight, but has a pointy end.

@sleepyfox btw the newer Daito Ryu curriculum appears to have changed quite a bit under Tokimune. So people looking for the historical perspective to #aikido by training most lines of #DaitoRyu are probably not getting what they think they want. Very few people teach primarily the old type of curriculum, as outlined also in the Soden books. Possibly only one dojo (#Sasuga in Helsinki). Their stuff is very clearly related to aikido, albeit with a lot that has disappeared from aikido.

@sleepyfox actually my own studies has shown the #aikido technique terms most likely are linked to the #DaitoRyu of the days (many lines of DR use the terms differently today). There is fair evidence that Takeda himself would have used the terms ikkajo, nikajo etc in the same way we do today for ikkyo, nikyo. Also, early aikido used the ‘kajo’ versions.

@sleepyfox the fantastic thing is how different each dojo can be. So when a sensei says ‘This is how you do it in #aikido’ I tend to now take it with a pinch of salt. At the same time I’ve learnt something from every one of the 38 dojos I visited.

I can also count 10 dojos of other arts (#karate x 3, #judo, #hapkido, #kobujutsu, #iaido, #ChoyLiFut, #HEMA, #bujinkan). Also 3 separate clubs that were physically in the same dojo as one of the others (2x #DaitoRyu, 1 Karate). AMA :D

Today I had my wrist splintered, my elbow bent the wrong way, my shoulder dislocated, my neck wrung and my spine broken. Just your usual #DaitoRyu seminar. Tomorrow, #aikido.

#introduction time.

I do software engineering — done work in infosec (SOC, security proxies) and high perf traffic monitoring (media streaming qoe). Currently at #Tonal on backend team building out media streaming, infrastructure observability, etc.

I teach Shin Shin Toitsu #Aikido, play ⚽️ for fun, and watch a lot of #LFC.

I have a cool partner, 2 hilarious kids, 2 dogs, 4 backyard hens.

I live in a place some people call Canada. Nature is beautiful and I really hope we can keep it.