AikidoIreland.ie
Title
Whitefriar Aikido Club
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Aikido is a non-violent Japanese Martial Art and a discipline for developing an integrated sense of ourselves, both mentally and physically. Aikido defence techniques, which are primarily harmonising throws and locks, are based on receiving the attacker with compassion and blending with the power of the attack to neutralise it.
- The techniques are smooth and circular and, ultimately serve to expose the pointlessness, and unkindness, of resorting to violence as a means of resolving conflict. To move well and to perceive and control the attacker completely, the Aikidoka learns to create and maintain a calm, alert and balanced state of mind, body, energy and spirit.
