Atemi Ryu Chendokan Aikido

Aikido

Traditional Aikido is the Martial Art developed in Japan by
Master Morihei Uyeshiba combining practical self-defense
movements taken from sword and spear fighting, Jujitsu, and
many other traditional arts, and a philosophy of harmony.

Aikido depends not only on innate skillfulness, but a steady and
vigorous training. Continuous practice requires patience, which
leads one to become strong in spiritual and physical discipline.
Real strength will be acquired in cultivating the mental ability to
control the body freely.

Chendokan Aikido
Philip Chenique.   This system has all the traditional Aikido
movements and techniques, but applies them to today's
Chendokan Aikido is a form of Aikido developed by Professor
Philip Chenique.   This system has all the traditional Aikido
situations. Professor Philip Chenique is the creator and
founder of Atemi Ryu Jujitsu, holding a 10th degree under his
instructor Grandmaster Moses Powell. Moses Powell is known
around the world for his contributions in Jujitsu, Aiki-Jujitsu,
Aiki-budo, Aikido and many other martial arts.   Dr. Philip
Chenique went on to found the Chendokan School of Aikido.

Aikido permits the practitioner to respond to an attack by
redirecting the energy of the attack rather than creating a
new attack. Aikido relies on timing and balance to
manipulate the attackers movement. Aikido practioners,
by virtue of the nature of the art can taylor their response
to an attack based on the intention of the attacker. They
may decide to gently control, or to respond with potentially
deadly force. While some consider it a “dojo art”, aikido
is very well suited to “the street” when techniques are
applied properly. The Chendokan Aikido system
focuses on applying aikido so it is functional for today’s
practioner in all situations.

DO: “Way” or “path” When this term is used as a suffix to a
particular style of the Japanese martial arts, it is indicative of more
than just a means of combat. ‘DO’ indicates a discipline and
philosophy with moral and spiritual connotations, the ultimate aim
being enlightenment, personal development, and so forth. The
most common DO practices are Ju-jitsu DO, Judo, Kendo and
Aikido.

KAN: “Home” or “House” The place of comfort. The place where all
feel welcomed.

History of Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba , founder of Aidkio, was born in 1883 in the
Japanese fishing and farming village of Tanabe. His name,
Morihei, meaning “abundant peace” was prophetic. He began
his study of the martial arts in his youth. He trained in sumo,
then traditional sword, spear, and jujutsu, while at the same
time feeding a voracious appetite for mathematics, physics, and
spiritual studies.

Investing many years in training, his prowess and reputation as a renowned master of
martial arts grew.   His reputation attracted many challengers who came to test their
skills and refute the increasingly legendary Ueshiba.   He would inevitably defeat them
all - many even asked to become his students.   After one such encounter where he
evaded an attacker's repeated strikes with a wooden sword, doing so without injuring
his challenger, he had an enlightening revelation.   Winning as a result of defeating
another was not truly winning at all. From that point on, his deep spiritual beliefs and
his remarkable martial art became one.

In 1942, O'Sensei (Great Teacher), as he later came to be known, began calling his
martial art system Aikido, “the way of harmony and love.”   He still attracted many
people, but this time they came in wonder and awe of a living legend and the power of
his Aikido.