Atemi Ryu Chendokan Aikido

Aikido

Traditional techniques in Modern Times

Chendokan Aikido was developed as an integrated martial system. Gone is the
rigidity of many traditional Aikido schools. Instead we focus on Aikido that works
for the individual student, modifying and adjusting movement so the technique
can be applied by the student as situations change. As a result, in addition to
traditional Aikido elements, this system also incorporates Aiki-jutsu approaches
to techniques. This expands the scope and flexibility of our Aikido students.
Some choose only a traditional path. Other choose a more martial and
combative road. For soldiers and law enforcement this makes Aikido a survival
tool that can be applied to defend your life.

How Does Aikido Work?
Aikido permits the practitioner to respond to an attack by redirecting the energy of the attack rather than
creating a new attack in response.

The roots of Chendokan are found in the name. DO: “Way” or “path”
When this term is used as a suffix to a particular style of the Japanese
martial arts, it is indicative of more than just a means of combat. ‘DO’
indicates a discipline and philosophy with moral and spiritual
connotations, the ultimate aim being enlightenment, personal
development, and so forth. "KAN: “Home” or “House” The place of
comfort. The place where all feel welcomed.

Traditional Aikido is the Martial Art developed in Japan by Master Morihei Ueshiba combining
practical self-defense movements taken from sword and spear fighting, Jujitsu, and many other
traditional arts, and a philosophy of harmony.

Aikido depends not only on innate skillfulness, but a steady and vigorous training. Continuous
practice requires patience, which leads one to become strong in spiritual and physical
discipline. Real strength will be acquired in cultivating the mental ability to control the body freely.

History of Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba , founder of Aidkio, was born in 1883 in the Japanese fishing and
farming village of Tanabe. His name, Morihei, meaning “abundant peace” was
prophetic. He began his study of the martial arts in his youth. He trained in sumo,
then traditional sword, spear, and jujutsu, while at the same time feeding a voracious
appetite for mathematics, physics, and spiritual studies.

Investing many years in training, his prowess and reputation as a renowned master of
martial arts grew.   His reputation attracted many challengers who came to test their
skills and refute the increasingly legendary Ueshiba.   He would inevitably defeat them
all - many even asked to become his students.   After one such encounter where he
evaded an attacker's repeated strikes with a wooden sword, doing so without injuring
his challenger, he had an enlightening revelation.   Winning as a result of defeating
another was not truly winning at all. From that point on, his deep spiritual beliefs and
his remarkable martial art became one.

In 1942, O'Sensei (Great Teacher), as he later came to be known, began calling his
martial art system Aikido, “the way of harmony and love.”   He still attracted many
people, but this time they came in wonder and awe of a living legend and the power of
his Aikido.

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Aikido uses the attacker's timing and balance to manipulate the attackers
movement. This eliminates size and strength as weapons and equalizes the
playing field when responding to an attack. Aikido practitioners tailor their
response to an attack based on the intention of the attacker. They may decide to
gently control, or to respond with potentially deadly force.

Many traditional Aikido practitioners preserve it as an art and philosophy that
lives in the dojo separately from the rest of the world. The Chendokan Aikido
system focuses on applying Aikido so it is functional for today’s practitioner in all
situations, from the school yard to the board room and the battlefield.

Multiple Attackers

Chendokan Aikido

Most martial arts assume there is only ever one attacker. As an art, Aikido
has always multiple attackers. From a self defense perspective,the goal
becomes defending one's life, not defeating one man. From day one,
students use traditional exercises like "randori" as well as nontraditional
teaching to prepare for this reality.

In our house, all genders, ages, skill levels, and philosophies are
welcome. Ours is a house of learning.