Is Aikido becoming a "Koryu"?
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025
- Is Aikido about to become a thing of the past? Will the Art soon be just a pastime for specialists? Until the 1990s, Aikido enjoyed a phase of considerable worldwide diffusion and ever-increasing success. However, young people today do not seem to be as enthralled by that kind of model that appealed so much to enthusiasts back then. What is the recipe for making Aikido more palatable to the 21st-century audience? Does it exist or should we continue to follow our own path and become, before long, a Koryu (Old School) in the true meaning of the word?
In his book interview "The Uchideshi - Interview with Jacques Payet", published by The Ran Network in 2022, Jacques Payet explains his personal recipe for keeping his Aikido alive, interesting and thriving.
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As far as I know, this "problem" of aging and diminishing numbers of practitioners is pretty much common - in Italy, at very least - to all kinds of *asian* martial arts.
Several factors can be responsible for that, one of the most likely it's the trend shifts in popular and juvenile culture in the last 20 or so years.
To make a long story short, I'd say that the "golded age" of asian martial arts in western pop culture, that we can roughly trace back to the Bruce Lee movies well into the first years of the 2000, seems to be over.
There is also a very more serious problem of population aging in Italy and Europe in general, and that surely affects too.
What? This is incomprehensible.
Katori Shinto ryu is freaking huge. Same for Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu, Tendo Ryu... etc.
Extinct schools of martial arts maybe?
They might have large enough membership in terms of koryu. That equates to close to nothing in terms of gendai budo
Make sense because Aikido is more Koryu than Budo.
@ 5:00 " we should be able to deal with strong individual from other styles looking for techniques which really work and with those looking for self defense? "
why do you need to ask such questions ? Aikido Dojo is not a fixed rigid curiculum as many think, unless you are a Ueshiba cult.
Aikido is not a trademark property of the ueshiba clan or aikikai,
Aikido is owned by Nature , and merely introduced by the Nihon Botukukai as an umbrella term for general aikijujitsu arts.
Lack of creativity and shortsightedness has caused aikido to be a caricature because of the blind obedience to the ueshiba dogma.
Payet sensei is affirming that we should do these things. There is no question. Your comment is based on a false assumption, even though parts of what you are arguing are agreeable.
Niet aikido is fine!