By Javier Cid Dojo-cho takemusu aiki Spain
O-Sensei said, " my technique is 70 percent atemi
and 30 percent nage."
Based on this principle is inexplicable as many "Sensei" are
completely concerned with this section. The Atemi is not only to create an
opening, it is also a martial art by itself; in aikido we have the huge
advantage of practicing different martial arts in a single (it is wonderful),
we are specialists in ukemis, we are specialists in controls and grab certain ,
we work extrangulaciones, we work bokken, Jo, naginata, yari, Jūken, so much,
etc. And in turn, we work how to get rid of each of his attacks (Jo Dori, Jo
Nage, Tachi Dori, etc. ) that is, a huge repertoire that o ' Sensei bequeathed
us in a systematized way and perhaps structured by his students for the later.
We understand that being a martial art that has its origins in the samurai, it
is not surprising the multitude of techniques that in different situations had
to know a high-Ranking Samurai and that o ' Sensei Improved and implemented as
the jūken-Dori (grip From Bayonet) of which he had been an instructor.
But resuming the atemi and deepening on the subject, it should be noted that so
much importance gave him o ' Sensei to this aspect of art, which wrote a true
manual on the same called "Budo" in which photographs appear in the
noma dojo referring Exact of the atemis. If we look good, we will see that the
points of hitting are neither more nor less than vital points of the human body
studied exhaustively for hundreds of years to remove the opposite, points that
match perfectly in other schools, although many would have stopped practicing
Go to the sports part, and seem little noble.
Perhaps this sounds very strong in the current field but we must not forget
that the best swordsmen in Japan, we have read it on countless occasions in the
zen books, used to preserve the life of the opposite or at least try to get rid
of the confrontation, and this only It could be achieved when his dominion over
life or death made them invincible.
In the aikido of iwama there is a lot of emphasis on the atemis when practiced
in kihon (basic technique). And it's curious because precisely that these are
the last years of o ' Sensei, I mean those of iwama and precisely it's the only
thing that never changed. You can see the photos of noma dojo with 50 years and
those of iwama with 80 years, the atemis are exactly the same. I hadn't
modified anything...
A few years ago I read a book about atemi (fantastic) written by Henry Plée, a
10th Western Karate Dan of world renown. In your day I commented with my
students and now I want to reflect it in these lines. I was given the attention
given that he spoke of the investigation and conclusion of a Japanese squadron
that during the 2th world war had identified the different vital points needed
to end a person, all this inflicted on prisoners of war in which they had tried
Your conclusions. The curious thing about the case is that the ultimate map
coincided exactly with all the vital points we call "opening" in
aikido. Where I want to come with this is that it is not possible, in my
understanding, to preserve the life of a person if our knowledge is limited
marcialmente, especially in a matter as important as the atemi. In Aikido is
not possible our self-defense if we do not have the certainty that what we
practice can do much damage; for this we have to practice many kihon with
atemis and at least know where to hit, not only as an element of distraction
and opening (which of course can also be).
As the great swordsman said "Yagyu Munenori"-
the sword that kills is the sword that gives life –
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