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Toyoda Aikido
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Internal Cultivation
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Our Aikido Way
"Through our training and discipline we cut ourselves. We cut the ego, which is to say that we see ourselves for what we truly are.
Then we can wield the great sword -
our existence, our life - correctly."
Fumio Toyoda
"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through the forging fire, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword.
Human beings develop in the same fashion."
Morihei Ueshiba
The primary purpose and guiding thought of Fudoshinkan dojo is the quality presentation of the Aikido art and paradigm, according to the late Fumio Toyoda Shihan, 6. DAN (1947.-2001.). His Aikido is powerful and dynamic, an art rooted in a millenia of tradition; but it is also alive, adaptive and above all effective.
Our mission is the establishment of a training environment devoid of differentiation between "internal" and "external" training; to perform technique with an undisturbed mind, to meditate fiercely and with a sharp awareness, as if fencing. To achieve this, we cast a wide net across all styles and arts, weeding out excess and assimilating and nurturing the essential.
At its foundation, our methodology is nonviolence, cooperation and harmony - but the actual forms studied are something else entirely - violence refined for centuries, now at the peak of economic movement. This apparent paradox dissappears as our understanding, through training, grows. We discover that the main prerequisite of true pacifism is the fearlessness of an experienced warrior.
It is fact that a distorted image of Aikido as a noneffective Martial Art is widespread around us; this is due to the overly mixing the Aikido philosophy of acceptance and universal Love, with the actual training process and forms, done by many styles and teachers.
Our ultimate goal is, through hard training, demonstration and every means at our disposal - to present the art of Aikido as a unique path to Self-realization through hard physical and mental training; as well as an effective Martial Art that, once mastered, can be used to successfully deal with any conflict, including the most difficult one - within ourselves.