Ki response to punch

A flood of ki is released through emotional expressions including Acceptance. When we can truly accept our attacker (not condoning the attack), ki from our hara will make the attack ineffective

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[BorbaFerreira]

What style of Aikido is it?

I am really interested in studying Aikido, is there any chance of hurting the joints during the training? the joint locks look quite painful.

[Kakushitoride]

@BorbaFerreira There is a chance of hurting the joints during training if the participants are throwing hard. In our dojo this is unlikely to happen as we are interested in conflict resolution, not winning fights.

[Sholysji]

To simplify, Aikijutsu is a martial art while Aikido is not but a way to search for the harmony between body, mind and spirit.

That we see here is not a fighting technique but a way to feel the oponent (partner in this case) energy (Ki). This is my opinion only.

[Kakushitoride]

@Sholysji yes, thank you.

[Kakushitoride]

@BorbaFerreira first, this is not a technique to be learned, it is a demonstration of the nature of attack energy and how blending with that energy in a beneficent way will allow it to draw the attacker to the floor on his own accord. As for the principle of connection that makes this happen, it can be embodied at any time at any level of training. Our training is meant to allow our most effective behaviors to transcend our limbic system (lower brain) response as quickly as possible...

[BorbaFerreira]

@Kakushitoride I'd like to ask, how long will it take for someone to reach a level that can do something like that? That is something that only high dan grades are practiced on?

[Kakushitoride]

@Humma78 a soldier is trained to fight, we are training to end conflict non-violently. The Founder of aikido was a deadly master of all forms of armed and unarmed combat so his insight into the nature of attack is profound. Because aikido is a spiritual art we treat violence to anyone as violence to ourselves. I am a family man, and I know that if no one gets hurt, then my family won't be hurt. Fighting guarantees that someone will get hurt. Aikido resolves conflict so no one gets hurt.

[Kakushitoride]

@Humma78 our practice is not winning fights but non-violently resolving physical conflict. For an equal chance of coming out alive whether our response to attack is violent or non-violent (50-50), we choose non-violence. Our vid is not a how-to, it is a simplified example of ki connection in a laboratory setting(dojo). It doesn't look real because you can't feel what the attackers feel. The connection allows an unfolding of the attack in it's natural trajectory when there is no resistance.

[Kakushitoride]

@Humma78 I have to apologize if anything I've written comes across as doubt of the validity of the points you brought up. I have the same concerns you do, including whether I will be able to embody my training at the moment of truth. I believe we both want to know that the principles we've each respectively trained in will manifest in our actions. In life or death situations neither you nor I can know for sure if we will come out alive, no matter how much our training has prepared us.

[Kakushitoride]

@Humma78 do a search for "hostage Ashley Smith." Armed desperate fugitive Brian Nichols had killed many, including assumably extensively trained police officers, yet turned himself in because of the connection made with him by a woman who had her hands tied behind her back and a gun pointed at her. Violence is all based on fear. Love is more powerful than fear.