Aikido klub ''Donat'' Zadar

 

There is a beliefe that aikido can practice only young, strong and healty pearsons in a atempt to gain a martial art. Those are not the only ones. Aikido also practice people who started in their forties like Erja:

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  or fifties like Goran:  
   
     
  Also ones who have started practice aikido long time ago, and still practice, even today, when thay have artificial hip as Mario Peloni, sensei 7. Dan:  
   
     
  Kerstin and Stella started as six years old girls:  

 
  Marijana and Tomislav started in their twenties and thirties:  
   
     
 

There is no demand in aikido to acquire, in exactly definited time, explicit technics on defined manner. Everybody make progress in their own tempo, trying to accomplish their personal abilities. The fact that different persons have different temperament and learning style is well respected.

Aikido encourages practicans to experience life situations in diferent ways, to doubt in their reality perspective, to see problems from a new angle, to gain a new insights. Learning is not a competitive activity, so competition is unnecessary and not productive. Therefore, it is never to late to start practice aikido.

 
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