Follow your own nature to achieve clarity, power, and success The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless ...of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this book, you'll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction—achieving peak performance and transformation along the way. You'll look deep inside to discover the natural leadership abilities lying dormant within you; you'll wake them up, make them stronger, and learn to draw on the strengths of those around you instead of muscling through with brute force. You'll discover how making the right choice is an empowering act, and develop the strength and confidence to stop hesitating at every crossroad. With pragmatic advice and wisdom drawn from the guiding principles of the Japanese martial art of Aikido, you'll find your inner warrior and learn that even the most challenging battles can be won—or may not even need to be fought. When you set your sights high, peak performance can feel like a constant uphill battle fraught with failures and disappointments. What if success was more like a transformational river current that carries you along to your goal? This book shows you how to come down off the hill into the refreshing waters of mindfulness to begin your journey to the top. - Develop laser-like focus, even in high-stress environments - Identify and develop your own innate leadership qualities - Turn setbacks into opportunities and defeat into victory - Achieve much more than ever before, with far less effort Eastern philosophy teaches us to work in harmony with our own nature instead of fighting ourselves every step of the way. The Mushin Way shows you just where your inner strengths lie, and how to leverage them for success.
Aikido's contribution to practitioner's health Alves Franco, Marcel; Isabel Brandão de Souza Mendes, Maria; Oliveira Caminha, Iraquitan
Motriz : Revista de Educação Física. Unesp,
05/2024, Letnik:
30, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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We developed an extension project at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and includes students, teachers, other servers and the external community. Our goal with this article is ...to present the reports of our project members and discuss about the contributions of the practice of aikido in relation with health as an existential phenomenon and with the care of the self. Methods: Questionnaires were applied to collect data about the following information: 1) if you are part of the internal community (server, student or professor) or external to the university; 2) age; 3) practice time; 4) your opinion about what health is; 5) the impact of aikido practice on the practitioner's health; 6) whether aikido can be understood as a health practice. and were analyzed by theme content. Results: 34 practitioners volunteered to fill out our questionnaire. From the external community, 14 members answered the questionnaire, and from the internal community, one is a teacher, two are employees, and seventeen are students. From the reports, we are allowed to perceive health as a dynamic phenomenon made up of social, cultural, biological, emotional, and spiritual aspects, among others. Conclusion: Aikido addresses many of these spheres and promotes selfknowledge and caring for oneself and others, reflecting about their experiences and their health through interpretative elaborations of their own condition. Such attitude strengthens the idea that there is a hermeneutic dimension of health that has elements that can be narrated and analyzed.
This article investigates children's graphic representation of two complex motor skills, snowboarding and aikido, from the perspective of drawing flexibility research. In particular, the role of ...working memory capacity in the development of drawing flexibility is examined. A total of 127 children in the age range 5.7-11.9 years were shown short videos of snowboarding and aikido and were required to make drawings of them. In addition, participants were administered Goodenough's Draw-a-man Test (that measures the ability to draw detail and proportion in the human figure) and two working memory tests (the Mr. Cucumber test and the Backward Digit Span). The snowboarding and aikido drawings were scored for 19 or 13 features, respectively, on which they could differ from the participant's standard drawing of a person. The snowboarding and aikido scores were correlated, also controlling for age and Draw-a-man scores, indicating a common variance for drawing flexibility. The drawing flexibility scores increased with age, and were correlated with working memory capacity, also controlling for age and Draw-a-man scores. These results are consistent with a neo-Piagetian model of drawing flexibility development. Detailed analyses are also provided on children's production of stick figures and "transparencies," and on the relation of each single modified feature with age and working memory capacity.
Purpose:
The main aim of the research was to analyse aggression dimensions among athletes practising martial arts and combat sports.
Material and Methods:
There were 219 respondents. The Buss and ...Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) in the Polish adaptation by Siekierka was applied.
Results:
Martial arts apprentices turned out to present a statistically significantly lower level of hostility (
p
< 0.001) and of the general aggression index (
p
= 0.04) than combat sports athletes. It turned out that lower level of aggression was noted in female participants (physical aggression (
p
< 0.001), verbal aggression (
p
= 0.004), hostility (
p
< 0.001), and the general aggression index (
p
< 0.001). Analysis revealed that the training experience and the training rank did not differentiated the level of the respondents' particular aggression dimensions.
Conclusions:
It would be advisable to perform parallel analyses in other areas of Poland and take into account the respondents' education and place of residence.
El presente trabajo analiza las negociaciones que se dan en espacios de práctica de Aikido ubicados en el Gran Buenos Aires en torno al saludo a la foto de Ō-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, fundador de este ...arte marcial japonés. Dado el carácter fuertemente no verbal de la práctica del Aikido nos enfocamos en la forma en que se construyen las experiencias y sentidos de este acto en el espacio de la práctica. Para ello ubicamos dichas prácticas en el contexto de los imaginarios sociales que las enmarcan. También discutimos las formas en que el Aikido se ha planteado los vínculos entre la práctica marcial y el mundo de las potencias no humanas en el contexto de su proceso de internacionalización.
Background. In Yugoslavia, after World War II, a new form of martial arts emerged from the aikido master Ljubomir Ljuba Vracarevic, known as real aikido.Problem and Aim. For Vracarevic, aikido was ...not enough, he wanted a martial art that was more realistic and unconcerned with the complex ethics of aikido. Thus, real aikido emerged as a new martial art and it gained numerous practitioners all over the world. Its masters spread real aikido with its highly applicable techniques combined with a questionable philosophy, resulting in them having a prominent role as security instructors for some of the top politicians around the world, such as Muammar al-Gaddafi and Robert Mugabe. However, even though real aikido emerged from aikido, it heavily vulgarised and brutalised its original techniques and ethics.Method. With a critical analysis of the works of the founder of real aikido and its comparison with the works of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba, the ethical imbalance between real aikido and aikido is perceived. Furthermore, with analysis of the individual techniques (Irimi Nage) that are used in both martial arts the technical, and most importantly ethical difference, is distinguished within the individual techniques.Results and Conclusions. The differences between aikido and real aikido are extensive. In essence, real aikido invoked the dangerous techniques that Morihei Ueshiba forbid long ago. Thus, real aikido is a brutalised, vulgarised, and ethically ruined version of aikido. With the name aikido but without the ethical principles of aikido, real aikido produced a crisis in martial arts ethics, where the martial art and the philosophy of the founder, in this case aikido and Morihei Ueshiba, are misused and abused.
Los movimientos de las partes del cuerpo humano son desplazamientos en el espacio y el tiempo, que se ejecutan en muchas articulaciones simultánea y consecutivamente. Precisamente el Aikido se ...caracteriza por provocar la pérdida del equilibrio y el derribo de un oponente mediante el accionar sobre las articulaciones. Atendiendo a esto, se concibe este trabajo dirigido a ofrecer una oportuna explicación sobre el accionar de los diferentes miembros que componen el cuerpo humano y su incidencia en una correcta ejecución técnica en aikido. Cuestiones de gran interés como: las uniones de los miembros, las cadenas cinemáticas, los grados de libertad de los movimientos y las particularidades dinámicas de los movimientos humanos; así como aspectos distintivos del equilibrio, tanto estático como dinámico son tratados en el presente trabajo con adecuada sencillez y precisión.
This essay takes literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe's Nobel lecture from 1994, Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself, as a point of departure for thinking about Japan, the ambiguous and how the already ...fragile and complex narrator that is I has evolved ambiguously over time in relation to a similarly ambiguous and changing imagination of Japan. Based on aikido practice-the narrator's gateway to Japan-the essay ends up proposing a different understanding of and approach to ambiguity to Oe's.
The authors revealed the problem of insufficient intensity of performing basic aikido techniques in Aikido examinations due to the insufficient level of development of special endurance of ...aikidoists. The article considers the potential of the development of endurance in the physical education of aikidoists at the training stage of aikido training. Recommendations on the development of endurance to improve the effectiveness of aikido techniques performance are offered. As a result of the experiment it was established that the effectiveness of technical and physical training of aikidoists engaged in the training on the method of development of special endurance has increased.
DEVELOPING FLEXIBILITY IN YOUNG 12–14 YEAR OLD AIKIDO ATHLETES Константин Степанович Дунаев; Максим Юрьевич Радунцев; Сергей Алексеевич Ярушин
Физическая культура. Спорт. Туризм. Двигательная рекреация,
08/2021, Letnik:
6, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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The problem of insufficient effectiveness of basic aikido techniques due the low level of musculoskeletal apparatus flexibility in young aikidoists was identified. The article considers the ...possibility of flexibility development as part of the physical education of aikido athletes at the course of training. Recommendations for developing flexibility aimed at improving of effectiveness of the aikido techniques performance including evasive techniques are offered. As a result of the experiment it was established that the efficiency of physical training increased in the aikido practitioners who had the flexibility development techniques included in the training course.
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