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In every technique we find the same basic principes, theses are immutables: if one of theses is missing then the techniques loses it's sense and it's efficacity..
By working a technique, it is all the discipline that one practice.
Working with the weapons is an excellent way to show the basic principles of aikido.
Principles
All aikido techniques go in a centripedal spiral movement : after having kept a security distance, then deviated the attack, the partner who does the technique is in the center of this spiral and amplifies it in order to control the other or make him fall.
All deplacements have to be reduced to the strict minimum in order to guarantee the speed of execution.
However, to guarantee the effects stated above it will be necessary to create, whatever the technique, a certain number of "basics":
- Distance et placement (space-time management), this notion is common to all martial arts.
(MA-AI)
- Right natural attitude, balance, physical and mental maintenance (SHISEI / KAMAE)
- To use the energy of the other, go in the same direction, be at the end of the force. (KI NO NAGARE and KI MISUBI)
- Take the center of the other and of the movement, move at least. The other must move more than you. (IRIMI / URA : concepts to be brought closer to "yin-yang")
- Use the push of the hips while putting all the segments of the body in the same direction . (IKKYO UNDO)
- "Respiration", only a flexible, full, free and continuous breathing can allow a good coordination of the movements and a good energy circulation . (KOKYU)
- Displacement, to move its body freely. (TAI SABAKI)
- To tie, untie: to release itself from any grip. (TE ODOKI)
- To be able to carry a precise striking directed on a vital point of the organization during all the realization of the technique. (ATEMI)
