Aikidou in Action Photo

Photographer’s Note

A painful demonstration for one of the students.

Aikidou means means 'the way of meeting force'. Its a very powerful and useful martial art that can be used by all. The theory is, the bigger and stronger the attacker, the easier he is to beat as you use his strength against him. A mighty punch can be turned into a wrist lock for example. As you can see some of the students sat seiza are old men and young girls, but golly gosh are they potent.

The actual photo is not that great, and I cropped out the dojo roof. I just thought it would be good on Trekearth as there is not much else like it.

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dragonslayero (3108) 2006-07-10 20:14

Hello Paul
Nice action from the dojo!
I must say that a little closer focus on the "fighting" people would be more fitting, but I'm guessing you didn't have much of a choice.
Quality seems good but the surroundings are quite distracting, the reflecting windows kind of ruin the atmosphere.
Colours seem very good.
If you don't mind I added this photo to a theme:
Traditional Japanese martial arts.

Thank you for sharing.

Odd Jarle

lucasgalodoido (16953) 2006-08-03 0:43

Olá Paul!

Bela foto sobre o Aikido! Também pratico essa arte marcial aqui no Brasil e fiquei feliz em ver fotos dela aqui no TE! Assim que possível também irei tirar algumas fotos aqui no Brasil!

Parabéns pela foto e Abraço!