最高の夜だ。昼に暑かった少しの熱気は夜の浜風が流してくれた。スポーツセンターを一歩出ると涼しい風が迎えてくれる。運動で熱った体を優しくつつんでくれる程度の涼しさだ。多分、人生でも最高の日の１日だろう。何気ない１日の中に、バランスの取れた最高がある。それはゼロだということ。暑すぎず、寒すぎず、辛すぎず、楽すぎず、ゼロであるこの風景がきっと最高の瞬間などだとわかる。
遊び稽古
１体操
２熊歩き、蜘蛛歩き
３杖に慣れる
４ ２５の杖
本稽古
１合気体操
２足さばき
３受け身
４小さい足捌き
５肩取り二教表
６肩取り面打ち入身投げ
７肩取り面打ち小手返し表
８正面打ち外回転投げ表裏
９正面打ち四教表裏
１０肩取り面打ち小手返し裏
教育学の本を手に取った。娘が教育学部に行き始め、大学中退の私も心の中にあった、教育に対する興味を掘り起こす。そこには合気道でもよくある場面を教育的に解説しているようなことも書いてある。効果的な方略をたてて指導することの必要性を説いてあるわけだが、それは興味深い。合気道は相互関係を確認し合う武道だ。自己の認知を確認し、それをお互いに確認することがお互いの上達への鍵だ。私を含めて合気道を学ぶ同志としてお互いの認知を確認し合う作業が必要であり、それに集中することが最高の夜への、バランスを取れたゼロへの過程になるようだ。
It is a perfect night. The lingering heat from the daytime was carried away by the evening sea breeze. The moment I stepped out of the sports center, a cool wind welcomed me. It was just cool enough to gently wrap around my body, still warm from training. This may truly be one of the best days of my life. Within an ordinary day, there exists a perfectly balanced kind of greatness. Perhaps that means “zero.” Not too hot, not too cold, not too painful, not too easy — this scenery, existing at zero, feels like what the finest moment truly is.
Play practice
- Warm-up exercises
- Bear walk, spider walk
- Getting used to the jo
- The 25 jo movements
Main practice
- Aiki warm-up exercises
- Footwork
- Ukemi (breakfalls)
- Small footwork movements
- Kata-dori nikyo omote
- Kata-dori men-uchi irimi-nage
- Kata-dori men-uchi kote-gaeshi omote
- Shomen-uchi soto-kaiten-nage omote and ura
- Shomen-uchi yonkyo omote and ura
- Kata-dori men-uchi kote-gaeshi ura
I picked up a book on pedagogy. As my daughter has begun studying in a faculty of education, it awakened an interest in education that had also existed quietly within me, even though I myself left university before graduating. In the book, there were passages that explained situations very similar to those often seen in Aikido, but from an educational perspective. It discussed the importance of constructing effective strategies for instruction, and I found that fascinating.
Aikido is a martial art in which people confirm relationships with one another. The key to mutual growth lies in recognizing one’s own perception and then confirming it together with others. As fellow practitioners learning Aikido, myself included, it seems necessary for us to continually examine and confirm each other’s understanding. Focusing on that process itself may be the path toward the perfect night — toward that balanced state of zero.
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