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What happens when aikidō is not something you discover, but something you are born into?
Simone Chierchini grew up inside the world of Italian aikido, surrounded by the teachers, pioneers and institutions that shaped its development. In this wide-ranging conversation with Marco Rubatto, he looks back at that inheritance without nostalgia or reverence for its own sake.
Teachers and students, parents and children, tradition and independence, organisations and politics, katageiko and technical freedom all become part of a frank exploration of what aikido has been—and what it might still become.
Personal memories sit alongside uncomfortable questions about authority, loyalty, martial effectiveness and the mythology surrounding the art. Encounters with figures such as Hiroshi Tada and Yoji Fujimoto provide the historical backdrop to a conversation that remains firmly concerned with the present.
The Parent is ultimately about inheritance: what we receive, what we make our own, and what we choose to pass on.
Presenting yourself as an unbeatable martial expert when what you are actually studying is the relational ability to listen to another person, together with students engaged in a highly predetermined form of practice, is, in my opinion, profoundly dishonest.
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