LA  PRATIQUE  DE  L'AÏKIDO
By Jean-Marc SERIO

Introduction
 L'étiquette
 Principles
Training
 Posture
 Seizures
Strikes
Videos Taijutsu
Video Buki Wasa
 Techniques
 What to practise with?
 Technical progression
 Arms


The Arms
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The Aikidoka will have to practise with the different arms that represent the martial tradition of feodal japan.
 - The Bokken (wodden sabre) replaces the katana of Samouraïs for security reasons.
 - The Jo (a stick of about 1.40m).
 - Le Tanto (awoodden dagger) represents a knife.
    There are two ways to use arms in Aikido:
 - The "dori" : bare-handed techniques against an armed partner (disarming).
 - The "kumi": coded figures called katas, executed between two armed partners.

Bokken The Ken : the sabre, the Samouraï's arm which protects his body and reflects his soul.
In our practice, we use the Bokken, which is a woodden arm representing the Samouraï's sabre.
The practise of Ken, otherwise Kumi tachi, (the two partners have a ken) teaches us how to place our body and our hands.
Tachi dori, (disarming) a long and dangerous arm, develops our sense of awareness and of distance.
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