Taikyoku Aikido is based on Ellis Amdurs observation that all of aikido can be ‘mapped’ on one of five vectors, which conform rather closely to the ikkyo through gokyo aikido techniques. Because we are focusing on over-arching principles, we use the term Taikyoku (太曲 - “great themes”)... This is not, however, intended as another aikido ‘style.’ Rather, we regard it as an open-source system, one that should prove useful to any practitioner... Taikyoku is a subject of a larger study, being carried out by training brothers such as Budd Yuhasz, who has been focusing on these vectors as a media to explore both internal training and body-to-body grappling/striking, and Robert Van Valkenburgh, who, in addition to these same concerns has been applying taikyoku within a context of traditional hapkido. youtu.be/7Ba6NShe6ak
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:37:20 +0000
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