{"id":2762,"date":"2020-04-09T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:22:10","slug":"time-to-maintain-your-aikido-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/time-to-maintain-your-aikido-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to maintain your Aikido weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have Aikido weapons now is a good time to give them a little TLC. I did mine today. Don’t they look lovely?<\/p>\n

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Give them a check over for splinters and cracks. Lightly sand out any rough spots, sanding in the direction of the grain of the wood. Then give them a light coat of oil. You can use mineral oil if you have some but I often use olive oil from the kitchen. Today I used a beeswax and mineral oil paste that I picked up a few years ago. Oiling helps the wood to stay moist which will reduce splintering. Apply a thin coat and leave it for a few minutes, then wipe off any excess and give it a rub so that it’s nice and shiny. Click Aikido Weapons Maintenance<\/a> for more information about this.<\/p>\n

When you’re done and the weapons are nice and dry, try some solo weapons techniques! I ran through Jo Solo #1, Happo Giri – basic and advanced, and the kaze arashi ryu tanto solo. If you can’t find a place to practice outside, try doing tanto techniques inside. A short piece of dowel can also stand in for a bokken or a jo for inside practice. There are a few videos for weapons techniques on our website at\u00a0Weapons Syllabus and Videos<\/a>\u00a0and many more on the internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have Aikido weapons now is a good time to give them a little TLC. I did mine today. Don’t they look lovely? Give them a check over for splinters and cracks. Lightly sand out any rough spots, sanding in the direction of the grain of the wood. Then give them a light coat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikido.on.ca\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}