7 - Aiki Jujutsu





Aikijujutsu, martial art practiced formerly by the noble Japanese, by his wealth of knowledge and difficulty. It loses itself in the history the epoch or period of the sprouting of the art, since the Japan old did not exercise to practical of the written one, restraining the past knowledge barely between the relative of the villages. Itself says that his origin comes from the art of the sword, the Kenjutsu, when in the battles there was not other solutions for the defense that not the concept of the Sukima (empty). The Sukima represents a basic foundation of the Aikijujutsu, and is going to do with that an adversary (initially carrying the sword Katana) is not going to reach his objective, barely using the concepts of the four elements, water, fire, air and land. From this I begin the first movement arose that today constituted the Aikijujutsu.




Very oldart, based in the harmony and in the utilization of the known, interior energy as Ki. The Ki is the beginning that governs the universe of the Aikijujutsu, focusing the studies in his conduction and addressing. Enough it used by old and women, by his wealth and efficacy of the utilization of the not; some it consider like the art of fight without fight. It is based in the utilization of keys, sprains and imobilizaões, of way it disable the enemy seeking the harmony of the body.

The name of the art can be translated into the Portuguese of the following form:

Ai: harmony, love

Ki: energy, vital force

Ju: flexibility

Jutsu: art




The AikiJuJutsu, since the organization by Minamoto in the Yoshimitsu, and to even before, had many distinct roads what resulted in different styles, as the Daito Ryu Aiki JuJutsu, founded by Sokaku Takeda, and also the Aiki JuJutsu studied in the Kaze in the Ryu what differs of that in very by the influence of the arts of war in the old peoples, the ainos what originated the people Shizen.




The Aikijujutsu of Takeda came of the lineage of the Minamoto, that organized the technical Aiki and founded him, approximately in the séc.XV. The art develops through the circularidade, such as in the universe, therefore the practitioner is a "sun", that mantém his enemies in its orbit, without never leave of lighten-them. However, always after the day, comes the night, that conceals the practices more strong and strict come back to the war, where what is found we call Hidoi.






The Complexity of his system it consecrated like an art of noble customs. His difficulty is found exactly in the interior harmony of the practitioner, not being left lead for any feeling or emotion that affected to its technical.




By that, the Aikijujutsu became a big practice of the strategists of the Kaze in the Ryu Bugei .