#shidoin

[aikidocenterofmiami]

Buffalo in Crystal River. #buffalo #crystalriver #aikido #aikikai #shidoin (at Crystal River, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmhx7slPrSFzCgwq-qD1rxQHv4dnRSTEDM2Z180/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#buffalo #crystalriver #aikido #aikikai #shidoin

[aikido-sonora]

Con Shidoin Judith Robinson y Shihan Hans Goto, en Malala Academia Hermosillo.

[instructores-kensai]

Shihan 師範 se emplea para definir a alguien que es más que “maestro”.

 

¿Por qué es esto?.

Puede ser que el que lo emplea no sabe el significado del término, pero creo que se está empleando también como a efecto de moda. Al igual modo que se empleó hace unos pocos años, el llamar Sensei, al que ejerce de maestro en un Dōjō y a cualquier profesor que impartía clases en un gimnasio, club o un colegio de barrio, lo que ocurre es que en la actualidad ya todos son sensei y ahora algunos ya se han autoproclamando así mismos Shihan, han subido un peldaño más.

 

Es que se trata solamente de ascender un escalón más en esa jerarquización “ficticia”, dentro de las artes marciales?, o ¿es que se desconoce realmente su significado?.

El termino Shihan en Japón es muy empleado, especialmente en las artes marciales, y es más bien un “titulo honorifico” dentro de un estilo o disciplina en concreto.

Por ello hablar del Shihan, supone hablar de un maestro “honorifico”, maestros como Morihei Ueshiba o Gichin Funakoshi, que sin tanto apelativo se nombran como O-sensei.

Al fundador del Aikido, Ueshiba, al que todos le llamaban O-Sensei (gran sensei), no se le llamaba Shihan. El maestro Taiji Kase también se refería al maestro Funakoshi como O-Sensei (O = gran y sensei es maestro).

Es entonces que nos encontramos como en las diversas artes marciales niponas, ¿se puede o no, llamar Shihan a un Sensei? y sobre todo ¿cuándo?. Estas son las preguntas a tantas incógnitas, así dentro de poco veremos como algunos se autoproclaman también O-Senseis, si no, tiempo al tiempo.

 

Para ser denominado Shihan entre las numerosas y diversas artes marciales, se requiere una implicación en ciertos “derechos” para usar las enseñanzas, los “símbolos del estilo, o de la disciplina”, tener una larga “trayectoria”, y ser incluido en un “árbol genealógico” por lo general es únicamente “distintivo y familiar”.

 

Pues puede ser un practicante y haber entrenado con alguien años y más años, y el maestro no darte ese reconocimiento nunca y no pudiendo utilizar su nombre, ni sus símbolos. También puedes tener muchos grados y el maestro delegar en otro más joven e incluso con menos grados, dándole el reconocimiento del estilo a él.

 

Por último están los legados familiares, donde el linaje del estilo pasa directamente al hijo primogénito (generalmente) y los estudiantes y practicantes anteriores dentro del estilo (no emparentados familiarmente), pasan a un segundo plano.

Practicamente son excluidos de ese legado.

Para ello en algunas disciplinas como la del Judo lo tienen ya legislado, y cuando un practicante alcanza el grado de 6º Dan, es automáticamente Shihan.

En el Aikido pasa algo muy parecido, tras el año 1970 y la posterior creación de la Federación Internacional de Aikido (IAF), se crean unos niveles específicos para identificar los rangos de los maestros y establecer a su vez un orden “jerárquico”, estos son denominados Shidoin Fuku, Shidoin y Shihan.

 

Shihan 师范, corresponden a un profesor, “un maestro del estilo” o la disciplina un 7º Dan o un 6º Dan. Para los más clásicos es más de un 7º Dan.

师 (師) shi (profesor, experto).

范 (範) han (ejemplo, modelo).

Son caracteres chinos que significan Shīfàn 师范 (師範, estos son los caracteres clásicos), significan literalmente; Shī 师 (師) “el maestro que enseña bajo techo” y Fàn 范 (範) “modelo, buen ejemplo”, “ejemplo a seguir” o “modelo pedagógico”.

Así ya tenemos muy claro que Shihan es un “modelo de maestro” y que es todo un ejemplo a seguir. Por su integridad moral y por su ética, que están fuera de toda duda (difícil de conjugar ambas hoy día y que en la antigüedad eran ambas sinónimo de “maestro”. -Sería por ello que antiguamente muchos de aquellos maestros ejercían de “jueces de paz” en los conflictos locales.

Estos términos fueron sacados intrínsecamente de los anteriores “títulos”, los denominados Renshi, Kyōshi y Hanshi, respectivamente, utilizados por otras organizaciones de artes marciales más antiguas. Con lo cual viene a ser una equiparación “modernizada” de aquellas titulaciones.

Renshi 錬士: instructor.

Kyōshi 教士: instructor de alto nivel, se les llama así a los maestros en los institutos.

Hanshi 範士: instructor principal.

Según el diccionario:

錬 Ren; forjar, cultivar. 士 Shi; hombre.

教 Kyō; enseñar. 士 Shi; hombre.

範 Han; ejemplo, modelo. 士 Shi; hombre.

Podemos afirmar que Hanshi era más que un “maestro”, es además una “persona ejemplar” no solamente en el arte, si no, por su personalidad y su integridad.

Es aquí donde muchos grandes “maestros modernos” han fallado, han sido muy buenos exponentes de su disciplina, de su estilo o escuela, habilidosos en el kata o en el kumite, pero no tanto en lo personal y humano. Al ser la suma de esas dos cualidades, muchos no alcanzan ese honor.

En algunas disciplinas las titulaciones de Renshi, Kyōshi y Hanshi están equivalentemente establecidas por grados y estancia de años en esos grados. Así Renshi hay que ser 5º dan y haber estado un mínimo de cinco años de Sensei 先生, para ser Kyōshi se tiene que ser 6º Dan y haber estado diez años de Renshi y para ser Hanshi, se tiene que tener el grado de 7º Dan y haber estado quince años de Kyōshi. Esto significa que se tiene que llevar treinta años en la docencia para poder llamarse a una persona Hanshi.

 

Los Sensei con grado de 8°Dan en JKA pueden ser considerados Shihan (Oishi, Osaka, Ochi etc)

[aikidomallorca]

No es nada fácil ser uke de Sensei. Además de poder aguantar el ritmo y el nivel, tiene que estar en todo momento concentrado en cada una de las palabras para poder así expresar mejor el movimiento para que los compañeros que están visualizando la técnica les sea lo más sencillo comprender.⁣ ⁣ Olga San es un gran uke y será un muy buen Sensei. ⁣ ⁣ Toda la esencia del Aikido, nueva temporada con nuevas ideas. Trabajo de armamento, kenjutsu, Iaido y sobretodo mucho Aikido. ¡Anímate!⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Dojo Tsugaku⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ C/Arxiduc Lluís Salvador 144⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Palma - 07004⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Sensei⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Esteban Begara Lozano⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 5° Dan Aikido - 3° Def. Personal⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Maestro Nacional Rfejyda 🇪🇦⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Colegiado n° 89⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Shidoin Spain Aikikai 🇯🇵⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Colegiado n° 41⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Más información⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Aikidomallorca.es⁣⁣⁣⁣ YouTube/estebanbegara⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Telf. - Whatsapp: [phone]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 35° Aniversario de Aikido.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Sígueme en mi aventura hacia los 2.000 seguidores. Prueba una semana GRATIS.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #aikidomallorca #aikidokids #aikidojo #aikidolife #aikidoclass #aikidowomen #shidoin #rfejyda #fbjyda #ukemi #aikido #aikikai #yosoytsugaku #dojotsugaku #mallorcaaikido #mallorca #spainaikikai #miaikido #iaf #centroaikidomallorca #igersmallorca #unanuevanormalidad #cocoach_es (en Dojo Tsugaku) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHu12vSJh8Z/?igshid=18c1zbrcjb63q

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[r4bbitdragon]

shidoine healin good is incredible bc she always manages to take the exact villainous stance that best highlights the hero’s arc it’s uncanny

#words typed #doctors coats girls

[marsjapanjohannahairas]

Martial Arts

Yabusame

There aren’t many events that take place today exactly as they did in the twelfth century, but yabusame (horseback archery) is one of them. It originated as a way of training samurai in preparation for warfare, but it has always had close connections with Japan’s Shinto religion, and so is usually performed at Shinto shrines. Attending one of the yabusame events held around Japan each year is almost certainly the closest you’re going to get to meeting a real live samurai, and so is an opportunity not to be missed.

Yabusame itself is very simple. An archer on horseback starts at one end of a roped-off track around 255 metres long, and gallops down it at high speed. Without stopping or slowing down, he fires three arrows in succession, each at one of three wooden targets placed about 70 metres apart on one side of the track. He then has to slow down quickly so he can stop before the end of the track – no mean feat given how fast the archers ride. The whole run is over in around 20 seconds, and the score is based simply on how many targets have been hit.

Don’t let the simplicity of the sport (or ritual as most practitioners would prefer it to be called) lead you into thinking that it’s easy. The archers need to use both hands for shooting, so they have to rely on their knees alone to control the horses. As they let loose the arrows they shout ‘in-yo-in-yo’ – meaning darkness and light (the two opposite cosmic forces, sometimes called yin and yang). Hitting even one target is hard, and hitting all three is a major achievement – the mark of a supreme expert.

The arrows are topped with perforated bulbs of wood or deer horn so that they make a whistling noise when fired. This kind of arrow was originally used by samurai to alert the enemy before battle (unannounced attacks not being very honourable), but nowadays they have the advantage of making the sport less dangerous. (Shinto shrines don’t tend to have a lot of space, so the spectators are usually quite close to the targets.) Only the most experienced archers are allowed to use arrows with points on.

Aikido

Aikido is a modern Martial Art created by the Founder, Morihei Ueshiba. After the Founder's passing, his son Kisshomaru Ueshiba was inaugurated as Aikido Doshu. At present, Moriteru Ueshiba has succeeded his father as Aikido Doshu. The Aikikai Foundation is an association that was established in order to support inheritance of Aikido created by the Founder, to train body and mind through Aikido and to promote Aikido. Today, Aikido has become established in 140 countries around the world. Aikido Hombu Dojo was built in 1931. Under Doshu, a great number of Shihan and Shidoin unite in their efforts to commit to the development and enhancement of practice as the center of Aikido.

Aikido is more about defending yourself without hurting your attacker.

Karate

Karate is one of the most widely practiced martial art forms in the world. Martial arts rely on acute physical coordination and mental focus. They were developed in Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) over the course of several thousands of years. In all this time, there have been countless martial arts variations, and there are hundreds of disciplines practiced today. (Check out this site for more information on martial arts history.)

­Modern karate developed out of martial arts forms practiced in Okinawa, an island that is now part of Japan. For hundreds of years, Okinawan martial arts experts honed a variety of combat styles, in part due to the political situation in the area. From time to time, the ruling authorities would ban peasants from possessing any weapons, leaving them with only their own bodies and household items to protect themselves. (This played a part in the development of martial arts elsewhere in Asia as well.)

Sumo

Sumo (相撲, sumō) is a Japanese style of wrestling and Japan's national sport. It originated in ancient times as a performance to entertain the Shinto deities. Many rituals with religious background, such as the symbolic purification of the ring with salt, are still followed today. In line with tradition, only men practice the sport professionally in Japan.

The rules are simple: the wrestler who first exits the ring or touches the ground with any part of his body besides the soles of his feet loses. Matches take place on an elevated ring (dohyo), which is made of clay and covered in a layer of sand. A contest usually lasts only a few seconds, but in rare cases can take a minute or more. There are no weight restrictions or classes in sumo, meaning that wrestlers can easily find themselves matched off against someone many times their size. As a result, weight gain is an essential part of sumo training.

Koryu

The old martial arts are called "Koryū" (古流, meaning old style) and "kobudō" (古武道, meaning ancient martial arts) of Japan. These are the arts used on the field of battle, developed and used by the historical samurai.

Bujutsu comes from the word "bu" (武 meaning  war or martial) and "jutsu" (術:じゅつ), meaning technique. Thus bujutsu can be read as "science of war" or "martial craft". It is nothing less than a complete study of the arts of war and combat.

[taijispearman]

Quitting time

Since there has been a lot of talk about what black belt, shodan or what have you means, I thought I would defer to someone that has over half a century worth of experience in the various arts that he has studied. Kim Taylor is a great guy and has demonstrated superb skill time and time again. Currently the highest ranking individual in the Canadian Kendo Federation in terms of Iaido and Jojutsu. Not to mention the fact that he is an excellent woodworker as well. Quitting Time My Aikido sensei used to say that one of the most popular times to quit a martial art was on getting shodan. Part of that would be a bit of “getting your black belt” which does seem like a goal achieved. I think we can leave the “shodan as goal” right now, it’s pretty obvious. Similarly, the big dropout rates at a couple days (it’s not for me), a couple of months (the semester is over, this stuff isn’t getting any more interesting), and a couple of years (I found a girlfriend) are pretty clear. The other part of the shodan bump (dip?) was what shodan meant back then in the Aikido federation. It was the level at which you could open your own dojo, rank your students to ikkyu (one step below that black belt) and put your students forward for the dan gradings. The shodan was typically around 6 years if I remember right. To award dan grades you were a 6dan which at that time was automatically a Shihan. So there were two “real” ranks and a bunch of mile-markers. Shodan was teaching rank and some grading and Rokudan (6) was grading rank. That has changed over the years, Shodans can’t award any grades any more and things like Shidoin and Fukushidoin have appeared. I have no idea what they are because I haven’t kept up. We’ll come back to this. In the Kendo federation the closest “on paper” equivalent to that shodan of 30 years ago is Godan (5) which takes about 10 or 11 years. At godan you can put your own students up for gradings of ikkyu and above. Any kyu gradings below that are up to the country to define and in the CKF they are club grades, so a teacher can rank their students to nikyu. Around here they tend to be treated as kid grades since there’s a minimum age attached to shodan and you have to keep the kids interested so you add in kyu grades. This can happen at the adult levels too, if an organization can’t obtain examiners for upper grades. You delay the inevitable by adding in grades at the lower end and hope the situation changes at the upper end by the time you have to face it. It often does due to sheer weight of numbers pushing up from below. Makes for some pretty strong shodan levels when they finally get there. So what is the deal with quitting just when you get to open your own dojo and grade your students? I suspect it’s having to open your own dojo and grade your students. This will come as no shock to anyone, but not all students in an art want to become sensei. Ten or eleven years in (I took 11 years to get my shodan because of a six year gap between ikkyu and a shodan grading seminar in my dojo) you have more or less learned the curriculum and there’s a pretty good chance you or your sensei have moved on. You’re not in your dojo any more. If your sensei has retired, you may have inherited his dojo, or more often, you have moved away for reasons of family or job. So now you’re no longer the student, now you’re the teacher. This is a big transition for most people, especially those who were not “frogs in a pot” who started “teaching” just to have some people to practice with. Those slow-boiled frogs may have started as “leaders of a study group” which, to me, always sounded like a way of pretending you aren’t teaching, or a sort of under the table way for an organization to let people teach without having the paper to teach. If you don’t get slow-boiled into it, moving from student to teacher can be a wrench. This is the time when you, as a student, start to ask some real important questions. Like, “how am I going to keep learning if my sensei isn’t around any more”. “What in the world did I just do for the last ten years of my life, why didn’t I travel more, take better care of my family, spend all that dojo time making some money instead”. When you ask those questions you are often going to get the answer “quitting time”. Especially if you’re no longer seeing your sensei every day, which can make quitting the art seem like quitting him. Now, some people like teaching or think they would like teaching (those are two very different things but we’ll ignore that at the moment). Curiously, teachers (those who make their living as a teacher) tend not to want to teach the martial arts. Who wants to make a job of their hobby? You’re supposed to make your hobby your job instead, right? Wait what? Those who like teaching tend to end up teaching ahead of time. I keep hearing from odd angles that the kendo federation now considers 3 or 4dan as “teaching ranks” which is why the requirements keep getting cranked up for those ranks. I figure that’s a bad idea, if you’re going to tell them they are teachers, give them the rank and the priviledges to go along with the responsibilities. The only way they should be teaching is if they’re the only person in town (and they want to keep practicing), otherwise you’re going to chase them away. Unless of course you’re just slowing down the whole grading system by passing fewer people along. In that case, be honest about it and change the time requirements, don’t tell juniors they are seniors in the responsibilities but not the perks. Still, being honest and open about things isn’t always the way is it? To do that means you have to rewrite the rules and doing that means discussions and arguments and who wants that? Which brings me back to another big “qutting moment”. That moment when you realize the rules have changed without that discussion and announcement. It happened in the Aikido federation when some folks reached six dan only to be told that the Shihan title (and priviledges) were not automatic. This was a bit of a shock to the system and only after a large chunk of students were on the way out the door did it get discussed and argued and agreed upon. This happens mostly at the higher ranks where an organization may feel it is losing control, so nobody we know right? Any time you see the reality diverging from the written, you’ll get this problem and it gets solved one way or another. Actually, that’s not so much a quitting moment (quitting the art) as a leaving moment (leaving the organization) now that I think about it. There are places where the student to teacher shift doesn’t happen as suddenly as others. There are dojo where you will find lots of high ranking students hanging around still being students. This delays the shock for those students who remain students and they may stick around for decades longer because nothing has changed. Unfortunately, that’s not good for an organization that wants to grow, you need those new dojo, but at least, when they do finally fly the nest, they won’t quit. Call it the opposite of the slow-boiling, the long-simmering. Kim Taylor
Jan 14, 2017
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#budoblr

[southern4perspective]

An honor received. 1.17.2017 I received the Shidoin instructor certificate during this years Keiko Hajime seminar at the Honbu dojo in downtown Los Angles. I am grateful for this honor and look forward to the challenge of sharing the knowledge that I have grown through our working relationship. As I grow older, I am more understanding of Kaiso Toshishiro Obata's teaching. Through his teaching, I am understanding the relationship between the movements in Shinkendo/Aikibujitsu and the moral parameters of Bushido. It all comes together in a statement he makes often, "Life is Art." I am grateful to him and his family for the organization they have built, a lighthouse that has guided me and many others to a path of inspiration. Their efforts have increased the quality of our lives. We are grateful. Most respectfully, K

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[sersandro]

Shidoin training . #bushidobrescia #artimarziali #japanese #italybugeirenmei #jujutsu #bugeiarts #artimarzialitradizionaligiapponesi #bujutsu #artimarzialibrescia #clanbushido #lamiapraticaèdifferente #bujutsu #sensei #sumi-e #meditazione #bunburyodo #sumie #sumipainting #suibokuga (presso Accademia Arti marziali Sansui Ryu Bujutsu) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgtf7kBvjL/?igshid=uvqwrg3yla0t

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[aikidocenterofmiami]

Aikido seminar at IHF Martial Art , Allegany, New York for practitioners of other martial arts. #aikido #aikikai #shidoin #juansensei (at Allegany , New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiV25E0vwJigv_rnSFbxXsf6JbAI05PmY8ETeo0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[curestardust]

is shidoine a lesbian. why does she want king byogens byogen dick. please explain

i said she is FOR the lesbians bruv. i didn’t know homophobia caused reading difficulties, might i suggest visiting an optometrist

#ask dust #i know you're the previous anon thank you for keeping up with my blog so well! #im loving the attention! #discourse #Anonymous

[senseiaikido]

Etsuji Horii at 31 All Aikido Japan Demonstration. May 1993, Etsuji Horii is still a Shidoin at the time. https://senseiaikido.com/etsuji-horii/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B2TZqqYpwus/?igshid=3g4x589frfaq

[aikidomallorca]

"Si el maestro es el espejo de sus alumnos, ellos lo son de él".⁣ ⁣ Toda la esencia del Aikido, nueva temporada con nuevas ideas. Trabajo de armamento, kenjutsu, Iaido y sobretodo mucho Aikido. ¡Anímate!⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Dojo Tsugaku⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ C/Arxiduc Lluís Salvador 144⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Palma - 07004⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Sensei⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Esteban Begara Lozano⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 5° Dan Aikido - 3° Def. Personal⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Maestro Nacional Rfejyda 🇪🇦⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Colegiado n° 89⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Shidoin Spain Aikikai 🇯🇵⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Colegiado n° 41⁣��⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Más información⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Aikidomallorca.es⁣⁣⁣⁣ YouTube/estebanbegara⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Telf. - Whatsapp: [phone]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 35° Aniversario de Aikido.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Sígueme en mi aventura hacia los 2.000 seguidores. Prueba una semana GRATIS.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #aikidomallorca #aikidokids #aikidojo #aikidolife #aikidoclass #aikidowomen #shidoin #rfejyda #fbjyda #ukemi #aikido #aikikai #yosoytsugaku #dojotsugaku #mallorcaaikido #mallorca #spainaikikai #miaikido #iaf #centroaikidomallorca #igersmallorca #unanuevanormalidad #cocoach_es (en Dojo Tsugaku) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHaU5LZJdVf/?igshid=hcdkb6c0s67w

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[marcioaikido]

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[r4bbitdragon]

i hope shidoine gets to cause trouble next week tho

#there’s gotta be some reason for them to precure in the epilogue right #words typed #doctors coats girls

[renseikan-blog]

Barbara Sotowicz Sensei, 5th Dan, Godan Shidoin teaching rank. BAB Coach Level 3.

Barbara Sotowicz

Barbara Sotowicz Sensei, 5th Dan, Godan Shidoin teaching rank. BAB Coach Level 3.   

Barbara Sotowicz has been practising, teaching and running a Dojo for over 30 years, actively promoting Aikido and ‘martial way’ training. I have trained students up to 4th Dan grade and up to Fukushidoin level. I started Aikido in 1977, got my 1st Dan in 1986 and 5th Dan at UKA Summer School 2012. I was awarded the Shidoin teaching rank in August 2008 by the United Kingdom Aikikai.

This rank authorized me to examine and promote Aikido students to 1st Kyu and to be a member of the UKA Technical Committee, sitting on the Dan grading examination panels. In 2016, I took a part in the founding of a new association, Goshinkai Aikido.

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