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What Is Aikido
What Is Aikido
Shin-Shin Toitsu Aikido ("Aikido with Mind-Body Coordinated") is the “style of Aikido
founded by Ueshiba's student Koichi Tohei in I974. It differs from other styles primarily in the
formal study of ki development and ki testing which provide an unusual opportunity to actually
test, measure, and evaluate concepts and relationships between mind and body spirit which must
otherwise be dismissed as "flaky New Age weirdness" or accepted on faith, despite doubts or
fears.
Shin-Shin Toitsu Aikido ("Aikido with Mind-Body Coordinated") là "phong cách của Aikido
được sáng lập bởi sinh viên Uichi của Koichi Tohei vao 1974. Nó khác với các phong cách khác
chủ yếu trong nghiên cứu chính thức về phát triển ki và thử nghiệm ki, cung cấp một cơ hội bất
thường để thực sự kiểm tra, đo lường và đánh giá các khái niệm và mối quan hệ giữa tâm trí và
tinh thần cơ thể mà nếu không phải được bác bỏ như là "kỳ quặc New Age flaky" hoặc chấp
nhận về đức tin, mặc dù nghi ngờ hoặc sợ hãi.
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What ls One-Point?
At least part of what Aikidoists call the One-Point, center, or hara, is what physicists call the
“center of gravity," the point where gravity acts on the body as a whole. When the normal human
stands upright in a normal posture, the center of mass is approximately between the spine and the
navel. The vertical location of the One-Point is commonly said to be about two inches below the
navel. If you fold your hands in from of you and drop them to your abdomen, your little fingers
will be approximately at your One-Point - sometimes.
Actually, the One-Point is not a rigid, precisely defined point nor is it to be "kept" in its place. lt
is in different places in people of different size and body build and it is in different places in one
person depending on what that person is doing in the sense of dynamic equilibrium. It may even
be outside of the body. A standing immobile body is stable as long as the One-Point remains
over its support - the feet. If the center of mass moves outside of its support (the feet) gravity
pulling on that point creates an imbalance. An additional tug by the tiniest person can produce
spectacular resulls.