梅雨がいつもよりも何週間も早く去ったことを聞いた。今年の夏はまた一段と厳しい夏になりそうだ。民主主義の限界という話を思い出す。民衆というのは長期的な視点をもって今実行すべき戦略を取るリーダーは選べない。そしてそのつけを払わされるのはいつも後世の世代だ。気候変動もきっと１００年前に手を打っていればまた少し変わった２０２５年の夏だったかもしれない。しかし、それはできないんだ。危機を実感する今日の我々にさえ変えられない行動を百年前の祖父の時代に求めるのも都合の良い話だ。人間は変われない、、、のか、、、。変わらなくていいのか。
遊び稽古
１体操
２クマ歩き、クモ歩き
３膝行
４杖に慣れる
本稽古
１合気体操
２足捌き
３受け身
４逆半身片手取り内・外回転投げストレッチ
５肩取り二教表裏
６肩取り三教表裏
７逆半身片手取り四方投げ表二種
８逆半身片手取り前落とし呼吸投げ
９多人数取り（前落としを使って）
今日は少数での稽古だった。最近は暑さのせいか、参加人数もめっきり少ない。しかし、ヴェルナー師範はいつもできることをされる。師範の稽古さえ少人数の日もあるが、その日を利用されできることをされる。結果は構造と運だ。いつもいい日は続かないし、ずっといい日がない時もある。しかしそれと努力は別の問題だ。やりたいからやっている。ただそれだけ。ほぼ毎日の稽古をただやりたいからやっている。それは力を生む。それこそが自信という力を生むと知っているからだ。
The Summer of 2025 and the Will to Change
I heard that the rainy season ended several weeks earlier than usual this year. It seems this summer will be even harsher than the last. It reminds me of the conversation about the limits of democracy.
The general public, it is said, cannot choose leaders who act today with a long-term strategy in mind. And the price of that short-sightedness is always paid by future generations.
When it comes to climate change, if humanity had acted a hundred years ago, perhaps the summer of 2025 would look a little different. But of course—that didn’t happen. Even today, when we face the crisis directly, we still struggle to take meaningful action. To expect our grandparents’ generation to have done what we ourselves cannot is, perhaps, wishful thinking.
Can humans change…?
Or maybe… is it okay if we don’t?
Playful Training
- Stretching exercises
- Bear walk, spider walk
- Knee-walking (shikkō)
- Getting used to the staff (jō)
Main Training
- Aiki warm-up exercises
- Footwork
- Ukemi (falling techniques)
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori: inner and outer rotation throw stretch
- Shoulder grab: nikyō (front and back variations)
- Shoulder grab: sankyō (front and back variations)
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori: two variations of shihō-nage (four-direction throw)
- Gyaku-hanmi katate-dori: mae-otoshi kokyū-nage (front drop with breath throw)
- Multiple attacker training using mae-otoshi
Today’s practice was held with only a few participants. Perhaps due to the heat, attendance has been noticeably low lately. But even on such days, Master Werner always makes the most of what’s possible.
There are times when even his classes have only a handful of students, yet he still finds value in that time and uses it well.
Outcomes are shaped by structure and luck.
Good days never last forever.
And sometimes, there are long stretches where no good days come at all.
But that has nothing to do with effort.
We do it because we want to. That’s all.
I train nearly every day simply because I want to.
And that desire—that act of showing up and doing the work—creates strength.
It creates the kind of strength we call confidence.
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