Philosophy of Japanese Aikido Martial Arts

Video Transcript

" On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Ralph Reyes. I'm the Dojo-cho and the aikido instructor at Chi Martial Arts in Miami Shores, Florida. Today we are going to learn beginner's techniques in aikido. Okay lets talk about the philosophy of aikido. Aikido utilizes no power; the promise of aikido is to take the power of the opponent and use it against themselves by redirecting the thrust of their attack, neutralizing the attack. So in the philosophy of aikido, we never engage with the opponent. We basically take the attack, we bypass it by either entering or going behind, off balancing the attacker, redirecting his attack and throwing. "