Aiki-do

Aikido became populair in movies in 1990. After Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Some people say; steve segal when we talk about aikido. These movies don' t represent the original aikido but mixed martial arts. Original Aikido, or Soft Form Aikido is about Total Quiet Peace. Aikido started as a defense, the soft form is not about destroying your opponent. But about control and damage limitation. Imagine you are in a sword fight. Your sword is knocked out of your hands. Are you running away? Or will you grab the wrists of the opponent with your empty and open hands. To be able to steer his sword that way. Therefore perfect for elderly, and people with disabilities. At eight I did judo till i was 12 at Sensei Jan Snoek. Years of exploring followed, bits of karate, kick boxing, pencak, wushu dim-mak, jiu jitsu and kungfu. At 20 i did butterfly jumps and reached a door frame top with one foot while the other on the ground. In 1990 i met a physiotherapist who did teach me the first grips on elbow and wrist in aikido. We 're fooling around. These years i exercised in a dark cellar with small doors and bricks pillars and practiced on a 150 kilo sandbag. Sometimes i could not walk straight. Because anatomy is second nature, I developed own moves with little knowledge i had. After ten years when i was 26, i saw for the first time books and movies of the famous great aiki founder, Osensei Morihei Ueshiba. ( 14-12-1883 - 26-04-1969 ) I started to re-edit moves. I have used aikdo in public situations (trains, street) and at work as army- medic to stop drunk fights. Sometimes talking about aikido was already enough. Or showing you are ready. With the horseback-stance. This is a important exercise to lower your gravity point or center. I've handled situations, just seconds before they started to develope. Except one who I helped once, but could not protect. I remember Anja Joos. The ' case ' Anja Joos was a Dutch court case in response to an event on October 5, 2003 in Amsterdam, where a former drug addict and hiv patient died by open violence of a group of 7 shop assistants. About Anja Joos on Wiki-pedia and at Plasmans Laywer Office

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