Aikido & Aiki-Jujitsu

First of all, I have no idea if there is something practiced for real as Aikido+Jujitsu (I did practice Aiki-Jutsu with the gifted master soke Yamaue and I loved his applications and inputs on the art!). I also know, even if never practiced, the art called Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu (大東流合気柔術), and I met people practicing it, and heard some discussions about this interesting martial art as well.

I am not trying to start a new definition or denomination of something!! “Aikido+Jujitsu” is just a name I gave in my mind to the Aikido form that it is practiced in Wuhan dojo. An Aikido form that for many aspects is closer to what I know (very little I admit) of Jujitsu. I mean, as wikipedia writes, Jujutsu, 柔術, the Japanese form, not the also interesting and more modern Brazilian form.

Cold and ..weird lunch

..and very disappointing as well!

With an outside temperature in the range 0-6 degrees in the past hours, the little lunch box delivery truck arrived with almost all boxes already cold. Given we got 2 microwave ovens for the 100 employees to warm the boxes, I decided today to skip. But it was the wrong decision, especially because if the “meat” thing:

The vegetables and the rice, even cold, they were eatable.

The meat thing was something not uncommon in China: bone and fat, muscle, no real meat!!

And cold.. very cold.. cold enough to think myself vegetarian today!!! Anyway, I will have a good dinner at Perfetto tonight, with friends.. and then night train to Hangzhou!!