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Aikido’s purpose is to create harmony: body and spirit’s harmony, harmony between your partner and you, and harmony with everything moving within the Universe (Nature).
Aikido is a martial art whose purpose is a healthy body and the spiritual
peace, to avoid conflict with anybody and to avoid Nature’s deterioration;
to abstain using force in order to satisfy one's desires, and to obtain
unity with the Universe. Unlike conflict or fighting which happens
whenever there is a crash between powers, Aikido is about uniting power
with power in order to reach the conflict’s resolution. The power
transformation allows the birth of Aikido Technique.
Defense: Strategic Stages Training of one’s mind along with the internal aspects of one’s aikido practice, such as centralization, extension, leading control, and sphericity are coordinated in and through the strategic and practicable implementation of aikido. There are elements
of strategic importance in a defense process. When one performs them
correctly, they become unified, smooth, and efficient.
Weapons training in aikido conventionally consists of the short staff – jo, wooden sword – bokken, and a knife – tanto. At present, although many dojos do not include weapons in their training, some additionally incorporate techniques of firearms-disarming. They teach weapon-taking and weapon-retention, in order to combine armed and unarmed elements of self-defense. The majority of other dojos however, follow the tradition and simply allocate their time to training with bokken and jo.
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The founder developed much of empty handed
aikido from traditional sword and staff fighting techniques. Thus, the
main purpose of practicing these is of gaining the deeper insight into
aikido techniques and movements. Another reason of equal importance
is a practice of these basic building blocks.