Dispelling a myth
An oversimplification that has led to the belief that everything in Aikido must be done in hanmi and that hanmi must be applied to everything.
Philippe VOARINO
from FRANCE
Philippe Voarino studied at the dojo of the Founder of Aikido, in Iwama. Master Saito passed on his method to him, encouraging him to discover, beyond this teaching tool, the true art of O Sensei.
Hodgepodge
In Aikido, there is only one position: hanmi, and there is nothing other than hanmi as a position. Hanmi precedes and follows movement.
Kill him!
To win in Aikido is not to win over the other, it's to win over the spirit of combat within oneself, to “cut off the attachment to life and death”.
Bad trip
Every Aikido movement is a rotation in which tori is the center. Tori must therefore take the center of the movement and occupy it until it ends.
It’s not me
Who does the Aikido movement? I don't. I don't know who does it, but I know it's not me.
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