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TO ALL MEMBERS I wish you all a prosperous New Year and good progress in Aikido. In 1989 I hope that we will open more clubs because to survive as an association we need to expand. We will have a drive on advertising "LANCASHIRE AIKIKAI". Traditional Aikido as created by O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba. Advertising will be done by posters, leaflets, newspapers and demonstrations, but most importantly it is your recommendations, which is the most effective. I have received Mr Devlin's resignation from the Aikikai which means Prescot Club is no longer part of the Lancashire Aikikai and accordingly their benefits of membership that accrue cease; these include the insurance cover that exists to each MAC licence holder. I look forward to seeing every one on our next course on 26th February Principal - M Mucha COURSES 25th February Teachers Course Chorley
Teachers Courses and the Dan Grade Class start at 2.30 these courses are restricted to 3rd Kyu and above; and 1st Kyu and above respectively. BRITISH AIKIDO BOARD The most recent meeting was held at the beginning of January in the Midlands. Subjects covered included the Coaching Scheme that is still being developed by the Board. Its second draft has not received approval From the Martial Arts Commission; a development plan in order to secure Sports Council grants; and a one day course that seems likely to take place on 28th October at Crystal Palace when members of the associations that make up the Board meet for a practice under the chief teachers of the associations. Each association will be given a time slot to teach within. All styles of Aikido will be there; a good day out please make a note in your diaries. Andrew Baird. GRADINGS at Chorley Club Leaders have details regarding a course at Cambridge under Saito Sensei 24th - 29th June. Single days or groups of days allowed but book in advance and early. Our Principal also reports that Chiba and Doshu Sensei maybe coming to this country this year but details are not yet known. Club Details CHORLEY PRESTON POLYTECHNIC ST HELENS HYDE HAZEL GROVE THE "ETHICS OF DEFENCE "
Above the man on left, without provocation and on his own initiative, attacks the other man and kills him. Ethically, this is the lowest of the four levels unprovoked aggression in the form of a direct attack.
Above the man on the left has not directly attacked the other man but he has provoked the other man to attack him. It may have been an obvious provocation, such as an insulting remark or the more subtle provocation of a contemptuous attitude. In either case, when the other man is invited to attack and does so he is killed. While the first man is not guilty of launching the actual attack, he is responsible for the other man to attack. There is only a shade of difference ethically between this example and the earlier one.
The man on the left neither attacks nor provokes the other man to attack. But, when attacked he defends himself in a subjective manner, i.e. he takes care of only "number one", and the other man is killed or at least seriously injured. Ethically, this is a more defensible action than the other two examples. The man still standing was in no way responsible for the attack, neither directly nor indirectly. His manner of defence, however, while protecting him from possible harm, resulted in the destruction of another man. As you can see the result in the three examples is identical: a man is killed or seriously injured.
In this last example, we have the ultimate in ethical self?defence. Neither attacking nor provoking an attack, the man on the left defends himself in such a way, with such a skill and control that the attacker is not killed. In this case he is not even seriously injured. This last and highest level is the goal of the Aikido self-defence art. It requires skill; the result of intensive practice of the technical means of defence devised by our Founder, Master Uyeshiba. But it requires more than that, it requires an ethical intention namely a sincere desire to defend himself without hurting others. Through the practice of Aikido a person develops his co-ordination of mind and body while helping his partner or partners to develop theirs as well. The practice of the art becomes a harmonious interaction between two or more people, fulfilling Uyeshiba intention via translation of the highest ethics of the East into vital and active modes of conduct. Adapted from " Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere " by Westbrook and Ratti |
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