aikidōka

plural aikidōkas

1. alternativeAlternative form of aikidoka.

   All his attacks were overhead strikes, a piece of cake to any aikidōka.

   2015, Ellis Amdur, “So How Tough Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?”, in Dueling with O-sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior Sage, revised and expanded edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press

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   There are solo exercises in aikidō and some weapons kata (forms), but these do not constitute the bulk of training for aikidōka as they do for practitioners of other martial systems.

   2003, Michael L. Raposa, “The Way of Spiritual Harmony”, in Meditation & the Martial Arts (Studies in Religion and Culture), Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 21

   The preceding elements result in this autotelic attitude where we enjoy aikido for itself, not because of the nice uniforms, the status we associated with skilled aikidōkas, or the self-defence skills we gain.

   2014, Kevin Krein, Jesús Ilundáin, “Flow and peak experiences”, in Graham Priest, Damon Young, editors, Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement (Ethics and Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (From the martial arts to philosophy), chapter 9 (Mushin and flow: An East–West comparative analysis)

   In response to the movements of the attacker, the aikidōka moves around his or her own center of gravity, using breath to stabilize the axis of movement.

   2013, Wolfgang Dietrich, translated by Wolfgang Sützl and Victoria Hindley, “Budō-aikidō”, in Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the Transrational Shift in Peace Politics (Many Peaces), Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 5 (Movement-oriented Approaches to Elicitive Conflict Transformation)

   To my little Aikidōkas, who, during all of these years, with their joyful eagerness to do and to learn, their playfulness, their effort and direct truthfulness, gave me the chance to create the contents for this book.

   2016, Fabio Ramazzin, Aiki-Game Method: Aikido from 4 to 15 Years of Age, Rome: Youcanprint, →ISBN, page 9

   It is thanks to him and to several dojo members and fellow Aikidōkas that I could afford financing this project for publication.

   2020 July 7, Antonio Terrone, “Acknowledgements”, in The Moon in the River: The Budō Path to the Empty Mind, →ISBN