NATURE AS OUR DOJO – AIKIDO SUMMER SCHOOL
“Aikido was created on the basis on multiple-attacker defense, which is reflected in the specific forms of spiral footwork (tenkan, ushiro tenkan). This is why the ability to adequately assess distance and forward motion of other persons is of vital importance. Equally important is the ability to create one’s own private space where we assume control over events as they unfold.
This is not an easy task. That is why one of the most valuable lessons on the path to acquiring such skills is practicing Aikido in the natural environment. Once free of confinements of four walls and immersed in the energy of unbounded nature, we gain new perspective on the relationship between Tori and his or her Ukes. In such an encounter Tori experiences that by extending our energy we can set waves of motion towards everything that surrounds us.
Aikido Summer School is intended to do just that: it offers grass as tatami, rich forests all around us and mountains on the horizon, as we dive deep into the experience of unbounded, unlimited motion. “ – Written by Jelena Vrzić
LETNJA ŠKOLA AIKIDOA – VEŽBANJE U PRIRODI
„Aikido je stvoren na prinicipima borbe ratnika sa više napadača, što se ogleda na specifičnim kružnim kretanjima (tenkan, ushiro-tenkan).
Zbog navedene činjenice, sposobnost procene udaljenosti od drugih osoba (ukea) i stvaranje sopstvenog prostora, u kome imamo kontrolu nad bilo kojim oblikom kretanja, je od primarnog značaja za bavljenje aikido-om.
Najbolji način za izgradjivanje ove sposobnosti je vežbanje u prirodi. Osećaj od stega zatvorenog prostora i energija prirode koja nas okružuje, daju drugu dimeniziju kretanju torija i njegovom odnosu sa ukeima. Tori stiče osećaj da svojom energijom, poput velike vode, dotiče i pokreće sve oko sebe.
Letnja škola aikido-a u prirodi sa travom kao tatamijem, planinama i šumama umesto zidova i nebom koje ima ulogu tavanice, donosi neprocenjiva iskustva.“ – autor teksta Jelena Vrzić
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