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    Aikido (im)possible - How to live Martial Arts
    Aikido (im)possible - How to live Martial Arts
    Aikido (im)possible - How to live Martial Arts
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    Aikido (im)possible - How to live Martial Arts

    By Andrea Merli

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    We can live in many ways what we do.

    There may have been a thousand reasons that led us to practice.

    We are all on the road: beginners, experts, teachers or students.

    Is it possible to practice every day with the same enthusiasm?

    Is it possible to stay curious, in search?

    In Aikido, as in any other discipline, there are common stages.

    Gestures, habits, challenges, situations we face.

    This is what builds our history. So similar to the others, so unique.
    LanguageItaliano
    PublisherYoucanprint
    Release dateDec 3, 2018
    ISBN9788827860595
    Aikido (im)possible - How to live Martial Arts

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      Aikido (im)possible - How to live Martial Arts - Andrea Merli

      Arts

      Preface

      by Marco Rubatto

      President of the National Technical Committee Aikido FIJLKAM – IOC Italy branch

      By teaching Aikido you meet many people, many students: with some of them the relationship is more or less short or intense but with some other you have the feeling that in any case that meeting will make the difference… In the lives of both.

      This is the case of Andrea Merli who, although not yet a practitioner with a decade of experience in the discipline, has immediately shown an interest and an engagement not common in the activities that we do together weekly.

      Andrea is certainly a particularly acute individual, cultured and sensitive but repeatedly showed a true genius in his relationship with Aikido... Doing so in a serious but playful at the same time, attentive to tradition but also modern and effective .

      With pleasure I remember his nice viral creation on social networks L’Aikidoka Medio, the average aikidoka, while in this text - his second work that ideally follows Come sopravvivere alle Arti Marziali, How to survive the Martial Arts - Andrea speaks again about himself in relation to all those feelings and emotions that the practice of Aikido generates, inside and outside the tatami.

      I find this book particularly useful and inspiring for all those who practice this fascinating discipline, because often we stop at the objectivity and mechanicalness of the proposed exercises but rarely have so much opportunity to reflect together on what they encourage us to perceive on a level deeper and more personal. But that definitely makes the difference!

      The indecision of a practitioner, preparing his own equipment for the practice, going to the training sessions, entering the Dojo, greeting the mates and the Sensei, accepting the fruits of their actions, as well as the others...

      Moving with them and with oneself at the same time, meeting the diversity and similarity, literally touching it with the hands and with the other parts of the body, falling and rising a thousand times, sharing the locker room and endless other moments... This is something we all have done several times a week for years.

      Reflecting on this and having the courage to share the fruit of such thoughts with others is, at least, something brave and very useful for the community of people that gathers around the practice of Aikido, as well as for all those who are interested in undertaking this practice.

      So if it is your desire to stop living the martial arts world in an exclusively mechanical way, these pages are for you.

      Dive yourself in them and make contact with your most intimate and personal experience: you will certainly be enriched and inspired!

      Aikido starts from us: a huge thank you to Andrea for sharing again a so important and significant part of his personal journey.

      Introduction

      The show is always the same. As well as sensations.

      Every time I get into a bookshop I find myself in front of an incredible amount of paper, titles and possible choices.

      If the bookshop is called book store and belongs to a chain and a brand with important names, the shelves are multiplied, and so are the offers of products.

      In the bookstore you can now find almost everything. Movies, music, gift items, musical instruments, stationery.

      Sometimes you can find also some reader. Navigators crossing the sea of ink guided by compasses, often attracted more by the magnetic pole of marketing than by a precise route in a path of formation and leisure.

      Like most of the people that live on this Earth, I come from a family history that has its roots in a period not far in which having attended some elementary class was a luxury reserved for a few, before being doomed to work, in countryside and in the factories in town.

      A story that is witnessed by some ancient books that have passed through the generations, kept as a link between people who have never known each other and who are however linked by genetic and, indeed, spiritual and cultural descent.

      A human trajectory of emancipation, made of sacrifices to be able to buy used books that have accompanied different people with the same family name, over time, to achieve the first full course of study, the first diploma, the first degree.

      Stories which are common to many families. Responsibilities sometimes heavy for those who, today, have a past that observes and judges, silently, through those creased covers and that smell of ancient paper.

      This is why the sensations I feel in a large bookstore are conflicting. Ten lives would not be enough to be able to read and understand all the books that show up from those shelves.

      I look at my past, the story from which I come and compare myself with those who could not afford to access the reading of some book. And I find myself faced with immeasurably laid out banquets, with menus more or less accessible to anyone.

      Maybe it's just like the kitchen: there is no TV channel or social network that does not successfully propose an endless series of programs showing the creation of appetizing and well presented dishes. But then in the same houses where you stick yourself to the TV to follow the deeds of this or that chef, often triumphs the monotony of spaghetti and defrosting dishes in the microwave oven.

      We are ontologically made to communicate. Hence the enormous production of multimedia content and crafts in all fields: literature, music, art...

      From here comes also what we can define as an ocean of indifference.

      Our creative nature does not often correspond to an adequate and well-developed skill for listening and metabolizing what we produce.

      So we find readers of all kinds: there are those who buy a book to furnish, those who buy trying to enhance their image, those who buy it out of curiosity, who by word of mouth, who in order to satisfy a need, to give it as a present, who to grow...

      This book wants to act as a bridgehead between these two perspectives: that of those who feel the need to communicate and that of those who are faced with the possibility of opening this small book, using it to advance a bit on a personal path of development.

      Of course, it is a book that describes the small orbit that makes the planet of those who have

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