| The understanding I have had of the founding of Aikido is that it was based on the idea of "Violence begets violence." An idea that a 'hard fighting man' would be all to familiar with. As a result he strove to collect a set of techniques that would not resist a person's strikes and stop them, but rather continue the person's strikes beyond the intended point. So, Aikido does not have strikes (in comparison to something like Combat Hapkido) but does involve a lot of joint manipulation intended to "end the cycle of violence." Discomfort (PC term for pain) leading to control of the situation instead of furthering the chaos of the situation.
Hippy? Hardly.
Happy? Hopefully. |