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Kurita Yutaka Shihan By Jose C. Escobar

In his Dojo (Mexico City, 2008)

Kurita Yutaka Shihan (model of teachers) is one of the last live-in disciples (Uchideshi) of grand master (O-Sensei) Ueshiba Morihei, who discovered the way of Aiki and developed Aikido as a formula to understand and create a new culture based on the universal order and arrangement. Kurita Shihan served the master both as his escort and scribe during his last ten years of evolution. He wrote down for him many notes that he was unfortunately ordered to destroy, leaving them imprinted in his memory as food for thought and imagination.

Although Aikido was born in Japan and it borrows some tradition and ideals from the Samurai class, O-Sensei excluded their old martial objectives. He only took some of their values to be part of his Aiki foundations in accordance to the needs of contemporary men. Given its martial appearance it has been confused by many people who have the wrong impression and have misinterpreted his principles and its training goals. Independent from sports and martial arts it basically forbids competition and its use for self-defense purposes.

Of the utmost importance is that Kurita Shihan has lived a life full of transformations driven by the Aikido learned from O-Sensei and his goal is then to make a similar effect on his students. He has changed specific ways found in old fashioned training by adopting a much more contemporary and original approach. He has based some of his new theories on scientific discoveries as, e.g., diverse studies of the human brain and the Universe. This has allowed him not only to adapt Aikido for non-adepts of martial arts but to transform himself and the Aikikai style he used when he was first dispatched abroad to disseminate Aikido.

The adoption of a new paradigm supplements O-Sensei’s teachings. It leaves room for new imaginative perspectives supported by the works of the right side of our brains and makes a clear cut difference between such works and the usually logical explanations made by our left hemisphere which have been used to disseminate Aikido since 1969. He has not only developed a solid theory on the effects and contributions of the right-left brain practice but he has also found a practical training way to benefit from the different nature of bokken and jo movements. Mechanical training and superficial technique have also been deleted from his new school.

Kurita Juku Aiki stresses Aiki as the basis of a new culture. The new teaching program includes training on Ki awase, Ki musubi, Agatsu, Kokyu, Nagare, Masakatsu Kokoro, Izanau, Renzoku waza, and Katsuhayabi. This makes it a unique modern school where these factors are integrated in each and every single technique. Kurita Shihan chose a traditional term (Juku) to refer to the traditional instruction given by one single experienced teacher in charge of all the aspects involved in a certain discipline as is his case. He took out the Do from Aikido because it is not part of the original name chosen by the Founder.

As a comprehensive Kio-iku (education system) Aikido is based on: Ki-iku (development of one’s essence, will, flexibility and intuition); Tai-iku (development of the body); and Toku-iku (development of one’s divine nature and being), none of which can be possible without correct, harmonic training leading to an Aiki Spirit. Only the right-brain driven practice of Aikido can make people taste the unique flavor produced by the chemical reactions of Aiki’s components. Aikido must help everyone to transform themselves day after day and to look for a permanent transformation and improvement.

Kurita Shihan has transformed training into a full living experience, based on sensitivity and intuition. He has undertaken the tremendously important task of filling the gaps master Ueshiba left to his disciples, a task that is taking him to develop the new intuitive intelligence concept and separates him from old explanations familiar only to the Japanese. The idea is to make it available for anyone interested so his objective is to provoke a similar change in his students. Aikido is to help people to act in new creative ways. If they are able to change their perception of things, they will be able to understand their lives and act accordingly. But this can only be done through the development of a new paradigm and that has been his mission so far. Aiki is the formula and the only correct way according to the original teachings of grand master Ueshiba.