父とよく世界情勢の話をする。熱く討論になることさえある。我が家はすこし変わった家庭だろう。引退して時間のある父は世界情勢をテレビの前に張り付いて監視してくれているのでテレビの情報を仕入れている。父の世代はテレビ世代だ。父の時代は白黒テレビが出現してカラーテレビになってお金持ちの友達の家にテレビを見せてもらいに行っていたような時代だ。私はといえばPCが出始め一人一台持つ時代、スマホになり持ち歩く時代だ。それだけでも私はついていけないのに、数年前からAIの進化により簡単にほんとような嘘がつける時代になっている。今日の当然が明日の当然でない時代。人によって世界の見え方はこうも違うのかと気付かされる。
遊び稽古
１体操
２熊歩き、蜘蛛歩き
３相半身片手取り入身投げ（杖の手引き）
本稽古
１合気体操
２足捌き
３相半身片手取り入身投げ（入り身のみで杖を使って）
４相半身片手取り入身投げ（入り身転換で杖を使って）
５逆半身片手取り入身投げストレッチ
６逆半身片手取り四方投げ
７逆半身片手取り二教表
８逆半身片手取り入身投げ
９逆半身片手取り三教裏
逆半身片手取りを久々に取り上げたが、４級でかなりやった技なので、思ったよりもみんな理解が早くて驚いた。審査に向かっていくと同じ技を取り上げることが多くなるので、少し焦点が近くに寄ってしまうように思う。合気道とか気とか少し遠い焦点で技を捉えることが大切だと思う。急がば回れだ。じっくりやろう。
My father and I often talk about world affairs. Sometimes those conversations even turn into heated debates. Ours is probably a somewhat unusual family.
My father, now retired and with time on his hands, keeps a close eye on world events in front of the television and gathers his information that way. His is the television generation. He grew up in an era when black-and-white televisions first appeared and then became color televisions, and he has told me about going to wealthier friends’ houses just to watch TV.
As for me, I grew up when personal computers began to spread, when each person came to have one, then into the age of smartphones we carry everywhere. Even that alone is hard enough to keep up with, and now, over the past few years, the evolution of AI has brought us into an era where convincing falsehoods can be created with ease.
We live in a time when what seems self-evident today may no longer be so tomorrow. It makes me realize how profoundly different the world can look depending on the person.
Children’s Practice
- Warm-up exercises
- Bear walk and spider walk
- Ai-hanmi katate-dori irimi-nage (guided with the jo)
Regular Practice
- Aiki warm-up exercises
- Footwork
- Ai-hanmi katate-dori irimi-nage (entering movement only, using the jo)
- Ai-hanmi katate-dori irimi-nage (entering and turning movement, using the jo)
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori irimi-nage stretch
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori shiho-nage
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori nikyo omote
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori irimi-nage
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori sankyo ura
We revisited gyaku-hanmi katate-dori for the first time in a while, but because these are techniques we practiced extensively at 4th kyu, I was surprised by how quickly everyone understood them.
When preparing for examinations, it is easy to keep returning to the same techniques, and I feel the focus can become too narrow, too close. It is important to view technique through a wider lens — through Aikido itself, through ki, through a more distant focus.
Sometimes the longer path is the quicker way.
Let us practice patiently.
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