Build Your Chi Energy with Aikido - A Type of Martial Arts

[Tovash]

ki and chi are differant energy ki is universal energy and chi is oppisites ( yin and yan, hard and soft etc,etc)

[Warrriorjap]

Aikido isn't only about your brute strenghts overpower your Uke, its about using your Ki to divert or use your uke's force against them

[alstan25]

pretty girl!

[williamross77]

Great explanation of my art. Do you train or did someone write that. Thanks anyway for the insight.

[Talito7]

lets spar

[Azarelius]

Reading a book to learn self-defense. Good luck with that.

[tgnrogue]

Also the "Throwing the opponent to the ground", is usually at fairly high speed and head first.

[FinalKenny2]

Luckily we do Ukemi.

But in a real fight you don't really have a time to do something like that, as Randori teaches us.

btw:

"Chi" is Chinese and something very different from the Japanese "Ki". Even though most westerns simply don't get the difference...

In Aikido the "Ki" is mastered. Later on when you are a master you also get to know the "chi", but that has less to do with the art, as more the mastering itself.

[tgnrogue]

"This art emphasizes nerve points that when pressed can bring down an opponent without risk of seriosu injury or death"

It also uses nerve points that can cause not only serious pain, but also varying degrees of injury and even death.

[HeartOfOne]

ki is not the same as chi and Aikido does not use chi read the name Ki and chi are very different.

[cruzerrepublic]

Ki = Chi

same concept just from different language pronunciation.

Ki = Japanese pronunciation

Chi = Chinese (Mandarin) pronunciation

[HeartOfOne]

Im sorry but you are mistaken, yes the words themselves both mean energy but the principles behind the two are very different. I know I have trained in Aikido for a long time and have witnessed other arts that use "chi" and the explanations behind them are quite different.

[Aikidopoi]

The words ki and chi are the same in meaning... but the ideas are very different. Ki is said to be a tangable force, whereas Chi is very ambiant, something that exists in the background of everything else you are doing.

[everyoneisconnected]

@cruzerrepublic aichido?

[cruzerrepublic]

@everyoneisconnected hah, it's Aikido.

[avillaavilla]

ki = chi = "zi" in anchient Babylon, the priests could call spirits and "channel" the energy for themself. Also master Ueshiba talked about spirits, not just "inner strenght". Ueshiba was priest also, Shinto God of Sun is from Babylon.

[mksterr]

ki = chi