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From depictions of ritual sporting Bronze Age Minoan Culture of Greece, to the prehistoric cave paintings with scenes of Japan sumo, sport shows was originally closely connected with the spiritual activities and searches of people across the length and breadth of planet. With the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in societies, increased the popularity and access to sports, whose grew even more popular with the advent of mass media. So today we talk about amateur and professional sports.
Sport is an additional study tool of human nature and social structures, as far as the sciences Sociology Sport and Physical Culture Science to place him in the center of their studies. The sport is so much more important, deep and spiritual of all that our raises consumer version of modern civilization without means there is and all that. Ultimately it is a social institution, which reflects a given society and culture bearing.
But many people today identify only with sport struggles to achieve victory and the championship. But when it comes to sports talk for much more; we are talking about the systematic physical vi and intellectual development and activity in a particular way, specific methodology and defined pedagogy vi for human physical and mental elevation. In this, therefore, the meaning aikido, which is a Japanese martial art without competitions, vi championships and medals may be considered an athletic activity.
Why Aikido has no competitions, championships and medals? Before entering into this dimension of art, we would agree on what is aikido. During World n ET championship and medalsl be ame one of the recipients of the prestigious Japan Foreign Minister 'Headquarters of Aikido (Aikikai Hombu) Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art created during 20s by Morihei Ueshiba (1883 ~ 1969), an expert who reached the highest level of virtuosity in classical Japanese Martial Arts. Aikido is performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather vi than the frontal opposition to it. Aikido has no competitions. The goal of the exercise of Aikido is not the perfection of a step or skill, but more improvement of one's character, according to the rules of nature. The Aikido So, as a cultural product, no matches, championships and medals, as the founder, Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei, created doubting martial arts, which develop fighting skills with the aim to win. O-Sensei related mentality excessive competition with the Causes of warfare humanity.
However, although Aikido is not a sport, as we define sports today, the art through the International Aikido Federation (IAF) is recognized by world bodies of sports activities such as SportAccord (formerly GAISF) - one of the largest international sports associations-umbrellas world after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) - and by the International World Games Association (IWGA), and also has been recognized by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), since the art of Aikido can be seen sporting activity. The integration of the IAF in international organizations gives international vi recognition in Aikido Doshu, and the Aikikai Hombu, and as an international federation, vi the IAF involved in global events vi only with demonstrations, making Aikido known to the wider public.
At this point there is another question, which I once put a friend, "why do we want Aikido to become even more familiar? Already well established in 95 countries! "The reason is simple, because we believe in universal and eternal values that we want to promote the even more, following the vision of the founder and his descendants for a better world. Simultaneously, the further promotion of art in official global sports bodies protects Aikido from the risk being misunderstood, since it is not a sport with the commonly accepted sense of the term.
Aikido emphasizes human mental development, while the direction that have to date sports, somehow neglecting mental Fr.
