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What month was this trip?

矢を放った瞬間の音がいい音ですね

今は訳あってやっていませんが以前弓道をやっていたものです。 これまで様々な武道をやってきましたが個人的に弓道は単なる武道とは言い難いところがあり、柔道や剣道のようにスポーツ競技化されていない所が多分に残っています。 例えれば弓道はまるで「禅」のようで、自然との調和、その場との調和、神との調和、万象との調和を必要としています。 そのひとつひとつの動きには意味があり、そこに射手の精神・思想・哲学・人生・善悪・鍛錬・覚悟・大義・無心・意思・静穏・人間性などが混ざり合い矢飛びとなり射撃姿勢となると思います。 迷い・邪念・欲等があれば、たとえ的を射たとしてもその射は弓道とは言えません。 そういえば「弓と禅」という古い本がありますが、あの本にあることが未だ弓道にはしっかり残っていると思います。 弓道はある意味「和」の極みだと思います。 知れば知るほど難しく奥が深く広大で崇高だと私は思います。

弓を引く女性の佇まいって、美しいね。流鏑馬もそうだけど、女性が行うとなぜか男より絵になって、映える（笑）

ツボに刺さった！😭 いや 心臓を射抜かれたが 適してるか？

美しい👍 見ている私も心が一点に集中できそうな静寂さですね。

安土に矢取りの人がまだ居るのに、矢を放ってる！ 射場が違うからなのか。 でも怖い。

Wonderful video! I appreciated the quiet. No narrator babbling. Very little ambient noise. Great having a look at the dojo and Jess practicing.

美しい時間！

Very interesting video…i would have liked to see the hits. Those targets looked very small. Holding an arrow while shooting looks hard

ただただ美しい。人ではなく造形物。鏡の様な湖面。ここはあの戦争をしている地球なのか…❤🎉

まさしく『全集中』という感じですね。 　身体の隅々まで意識を行き渡らせる感覚が 心地よさそうです。

What a beautiful display of this very beautiful art. Thank you for this video.

かーっこ良い、、、！ Cool...！

茶髪で弓道。やめてくれ。品がない。

when i buy a plot of land I'm 100% building this range. the Japanese know how to live. best culture

Beuatiful performance!! The clip is the ART of kyudo heritage.

Hello everyone, thank you so much for such an interesting conversation! We practice Aikido, here in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. We have a Facebook page, and someone commented that based on a photo that we were teaching ---- terrorism!!!!! His view was solely based on our training uniform!!!! yeah - figure that one out?! Again, thanks so much, and we look forward to more wonderful conversations! Take care, all the best to you all! :) :) :)

The discipline and stamina required for this are hard to comprehend. I'd never heard of Ms. Gerrity. Now she has me reading about things like ikigai and finding my own ibasho, probably with fly fishing:).

Fascinant

Amazing trip - feel like i was there with you ❤

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Hope to see more of you guys! :)

Love kyudo, I want to do it

Loving to follow your tracks! So inspiring and relaxing❤

É muito interessante a gente ver lugares e costumes tão diferentes pra gente. Bom que vcs estao mostrando, vale a pena ver e ver vcs tbm. Amo vcs. Bjs

That torii is huge! Thanks for sharing guys.

Well made video! Congrats!

Aproveitem❤

Assístindo. Vcs estao a passeio ou trabalhando. Saudade bjs

This backs me want to go back and visit Japan again. Beautiful shrines and temples.

Its hilarious how foreigners are clustering in Tokyo like flies on poo. Its an invasion. Why did NPC normies decided to move over here is beyond me.I regret when Japan was considered a weird country for weird people with huge glasses.

This is an awesome collaboration. I have been following the maai perspective since its inception and of course, Jess is a fellow kiwi so I have to follow her! Awesome guys!

Hello everyone and thank you Cathy and Ivan for such a wonderful video and for taking time to visit the dojo in Meiji Jingu (Shiseikan) with me. This dojo is quite special as it's the dojo practitioners go to sit their teaching exams (renshi, kyoshi) so the whole area has a quite an overwhemling atmosphere. Being there with Cathy and Ivans smiling faces really made the practice relaxed and enjoyable ❤

🌹 'Promo SM'

I’m in the process of leaving and handing over my dojo to go abroad. Teaching isn’t a joke, and I hope that my students don’t reject the new teacher. There’s so much again here in this podcast that just puts things into perspective, and I’m glad I have the context to relate to these aspects. I hope I can continue teaching abroad.

A very good conversation. Thank you for sharing this!

Fantastic podcast, I found it interesting to realise how many similarities there are between male and female practitioners, but also how many differences there are. I feel there could be a whole series on what was said. Thank you very much

Thanks for the wonderful discussion and thank you to everyone who has watched or listened🤗

Very interesting conversation. Thanks for sharing. The part about cultural appropriation made me realize that in America, if I walked into a grocery store in a karate uniform then no one would look twice, but if I did it in my kyudo uniform (especially the full formal one) people would freak out. It’s a weird line to walk. And for the gate keeping, I was personally turned away from a dojo because they “didn’t know” me. Luckily I found another one but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. Even so my teacher refused to let me buy gear until I passed Nidan, because he didn’t want me spending money until I knew I would continue long term. The other form of “gatekeeping” I would say is the language barrier. Luckily my teacher is EXTREMELY patient but it still means I can’t read any books on kyudo without months of translation work. I don’t think that’s on purpose though. I feel that the kyudo community is very open to teaching in English, but just seems to lack the ability to do much of it at the moment. But, I’m hopeful for the future thanks to discussions like this one. Keep it up 👍

This is a very interesting discussion. Not being a women, some of the female centric issues just would never have occured to me.

Hi, I'm a Chilean woman living in Australia. I've done Aikido in Chile and now in Australia. I hope we could meet on the tatami in the future. Thank you so much for this podcast.

Many thanks for a nicely layered and informative hour 🙏

I think the glue and attitude comes from the fear and challenge. Feeling that someone can break you, but realising they „just“ push you to your limit (and a little bit further) creates a unique bond.

Hey! I´m from Chile! Nice to know you trained in this Country. In the dojo I practice we have the costume to practice older wit newer students. So it is not rare to see a black belt with a new student

Fabulous! I train at a dojo in Washington, DC USA and we have an amazing group of strong women!

Great video. Our dojo Essex Aikido Dojo Shoshinkan has a fairly strong female membership, with many achieving yudansha rank. I studied under the instruction of Dr Lee Ah Loi Shihan one the highest ranking female Aikidoka in the world at Hachidan JAA for 20 + years. As a man, I found being taught by a small woman, equipped me a very subtle approach to my Aikido practice. I think many male instructor should listen to this video and look at what happens within their classes.

Saludos Fran, we miss you here in Chile!, Come to visit us soon 💕