Aikido As A Means Of Survival
Why people do martial arts? A complex question. How many people have so many opinions. Someone wants to learn self-defense who is willing to support their physical state at high level. For someone – a vital religion. A man finds that he is closer and draws from martial arts to the extent their physical and mental capabilities. Aikido martial arts as a continuation of development in modern society, provides another unique opportunity – to survive.
Survive, not in the sense to learn to be cunning, destroying the enemy in its path. The history of mankind shows that aggression is always a sympathetic aggression. And it always leads to the destruction of the aggressor. But this world is built on interactions of opposing forces. Man in contemporary society is experiencing a huge amount of stress. All of them are caused by man-made civilization. In a person accumulates a lot of negative feelings about his life and the people who surround them (work, home, school, etc.).
As a result, our society is a society of people with neuroses, phobias, aggressive attitude towards each other. People stop to talk heart to heart. People fear seem "weak." Try to walk around our city and look just at people's eyes. You will see so many negative emotions of fear and hate. People began to live under the laws of the Wolf Pack open direct eye contact – challenge to which must be destroyed. Because people live in prison. And why do we live on the same laws? As said in private conversation one of my friends experienced in karate for 15 years – "Aikido is the highest level in martial arts." It is his words and I'm not trying to prove or dispute it. Aikido teaches first learn to feel your body and your spirit. If you can not regroup for tumbling, if you're afraid to fall, if you do not like what you grab the hand of strangers.