Kan geiko
Kan geiko is a pared-down, rigorous, even repetitive training, designed in such a way as to emphasise the essential, and which traditionally takes place on 11 January, at the time of Kagami biraki...
Kan geiko is a pared-down, rigorous, even repetitive training, designed in such a way as to emphasise the essential, and which traditionally takes place on 11 January, at the time of Kagami biraki...
Aikido is about the eternal return of the same thing : movement doesn't vary according to circumstances, it obeys a single law, a geometric law that governs the action.
Is it not on the edge of life and death that the ability to adapt to reality is best judged ?
The spirit that made the Iwama dojo such a virtuous place when Morihiro Saito ruled there as a patriarch: a quality of human relationships in which ego has no place, and which is akin to family spirit...
It was a cold January day in 1986 in Iwama, and Master Saito was filling the bottles of sake that would warm up the uchi deshi after training...