“Aikido is an opportunity for profound pleasure, stimulating discovery, and energized spirit. The journey it offers is made by observing, feeling, thinking, then doing. Its experience is unique to each individual.”  ~ Gregory Soon
 
This Friday, January 9, 2009 Aikido Training at Moving Body Resources is back in progress.
 
What is Aikido & What are the Benefits of Aikido Training?
 
1) Aikido, literally translated, means “Way of Unifying Energy”. The concept of Aiki as it relates to martial art training though, is basically the idea of attacking the opponent at his weakest point. In martial arts such as Judo this is also referred to as “Kuzushi”, or, off-balancing/unbalancing.
 
2) I bring my experience in various training methods, including Judo, Chinese & Western boxing, along with Fencing, to the training that I offer.  This provides a unique view on martial art training as I focus on proper body movement, positioning and utilizing your extension in order to effectively perform technique. This also provides a balanced approach to the self-defense aspect of Aikido training by helping to clearly illustrate “Center-Line” theory along with “Kuzushi” (off-balancing) in order to utilize the opponents’ energy against his own attack.
 
3) I offer traditional training in an informal setting. We do not wear judogis (formal training uniforms), everyone trains for the benefits of the training as opposed to training in order to acquire a rank/status within the “dojo”.
 
4) Aikido trains you to defend yourself — most importantly by learning to be calm and in control in various situations.  By training in Aikido, you will learn to train yourself to AVOID CONFLICT.  Through Aikido training, a Tense Situtation that could possibly become a Violent Situation can Almost Always be turned into a NON-Situation.  Tension and anger dissipates because the incident becomes NON-reactionary, as opposed to becoming “Angry” or “Competitive”.
 
5) Aikido is also Challenging, Fun, a Great Workout.
 
To check out some demonstration videos I offer, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/user/soonmethod
 
For the complete practice schedule please visit:
http://www.gregorysoon.com/classes.html
 
To read what people have said about the training I offer, visit:
http://www.gregorysoon.com/testimonials.html