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What is Shugyo? People talk about “going the extra mile” or “giving 100 percent” or countless other platitudes that suggest the idea of doing or performing more than just the bare minimum required of any particular situation. This, in an incomplete sense, is Shugyo.
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Last Friday, a few aikidoka performed a small demo for an International fair at Jones College Prep School in Chicago, IL.

The full set of pictures can be seen here.

In Aikido weapons practice, we hold the bokken or the jo with the left hand at the bottom of the weapon. The right hand is one (bokken) to two (jo) handholds higher up. If Aikidoka strike with the bokken or jo by pulling the weapon with the left hand, the weapon goes through a long arc, with all of the weapon moving in the same direction of rotation. The tip of the weapon is then moving at the fastest speed. Since the energy of the strike is related to the speed squared, this method produces a high energy strike.
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