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An Aïkido
Master: Alain PEYRACHE
The true master is the
one who teaches his students how not to need him anymore.
Alain Peyrache is, by far, the best exemple of an aikido
expert.
By his impeccable and powerful mastery of aikido, Peyrache
shihan's aim is to teach how to quickly learn the basic principles
of aikido in order to make everybody able to really progress
in aikido.
He explains aikido without mysteries, with a logic and coherent
teaching.
Everybody should have the opportunity to learn from him
in one of our many seminar we will hold in Canada
Here a short biography of him:
Born in 1950, Alain PEYRACHE likes to tell,
not without humour, that its first meeting with aikido was
the fruit of an error: he believed this day to attend a course
of judo... But such a chance could not explain a 40 years
fidelity to this martial discipline.
The teaching of Japanese Masters and more
particularly of Master TAMURA fed what one can call an authentic
vocation. At their sides, he acquired this impeccable, very
sober and purified technique which characterizes him.
At the beginning of the Sixties, Alain PEYRACHE
starts aikido within the group directed by Me Nocquet which
he will abandon very quickly to move towards the teaching
of the best Japanese experts, students of Master UESHIBA,
founder of the aikido. He envolved some time within the Muchizuki
group and also met masters NAKAZONO, TADA, NORO, ASAÏ,
ICHIMURA...
Master TAMURA, who arrives to France at that
time, will become his single professor for several decades.
It is this meeting with master TAMURA who strenghtened his
research in aikido.
In 1967, at 17 years, following a wound of
his professor, he is found responsible for the dojo and must
be formed by its own means. In parallel, he studies Chinese
medicine and engages in philosophical researchs. Each weekend,
he travels a lot in France and Europe to work with most of
the founder's students.
In 1970, he creates its own dojo. Same time
he enters under the direction of Master TAMURA to the administrative
committee of the A.C.F.A., then of the U.N.A. Member of the
national Commission of the ranks and the commission of teaching,
he trains many professors and current French leaders. He discharged
during five years of his task with zeal and effectiveness.
The membership increase, which has more than doubled during
this time is a tangible proof. Much more, he could create
a true spirit of body among the executives and give them all
at the same time true technical merits.
In 1982, following dissensions with the Federation
of judo, he spent much time, as the National Technical Responsable,
to set up the FFLAB, using of its deep knowledge of the federal
wheels which he wants to make profitable to allow the development
of the true spirit of the practice. In spite of the insistence
of Master TAMURA, he refuses the presidency of the national
commission of the ranks, remaining without fault into the
spirit of the traditional dojo.
With the success of the FFLAB, the opportunists
started to flourish, aïkidokas often engaging on the
easiest slopes, politicians having more power that the practitionners,
the federations starting to do the contrary of what they claimed
to do initially; he notes that all his efforts for a traditional
aikido were wasted. Thus he resigned, but continued teaching
in its own dojos an aikido without compromise.
The beginning of the Nineties is for him a
revelation and, with time, he becomed an example for a large
number of European professors, who accompany him in creation
of the E.P.A. - European School of Aikido, single in its kind,
where gather all those who seek to practise a traditional
aikido.
Recognized like one of the best European Masters, he is requested
to animate many seminars s in France and Europe (Italy, England,
Belgium, Netherlands...). Now his teaching radiates beyond
the European borders, answering the call of aïkidokas
of many countries (Canada, Quebec, Bulgaria, Switzerland,
Israel...).
Expert in Oriental tradition, he invests himself in the practice,
not wasting his time giving useless gratifications to his
students, without using incomprehensible jargons, he teaches
them how to execute techniques of extreme purity with simplicity
and effectiveness.
Those who know Alain PEYRACHE know that one
of his major concern consists in permanently binding theory
and practical: "aikido can be understood only if one
familiarizes himself with the cultural context in which it
developed: the tradition and Eastern philosophy ".
In his teaching each course is structured, develops an idea,
is centered on a progression. The technical study is precise
and rigorous not to denature the martial aspect of the aikido,
he also highlights the guiding principles which underlies
the techniques.
A teaching worthy should not only raise the
question of the means, but also of the finalities of Aikido
Among those let us quote:
• the safeguarding and improvement of
health;
• the access to autonomy: to release
itself from the model of the teacher, to adapt the technique
to our morphology, with our temperament.
An acute critical direction, the sincerity
of his research thus made possible to Alain PEYRACHE to avoid
the principal pitfalls which alas sometimes denatured the
teaching of the martial arts: sportive/muscular deviations,
commercial deviations, mystiscism/sectarian deviations, etc.
His intransigence in this field not always gave him friends,
but contributed to make him recognized like one of the
best european aikido teacher.
He is the author of a reference work: The
"Didactic Treaty of Traditional Aikido"
He directs the collection "the Guides
of the Practitioner of Aikido"
He is the founder of:
• E.P.A. (European School of Aikido)
• I.S.T.A. (International School of Traditionnal
Aikido)
To follow Alain PEYRACHE in his requirements
and his rigour is a difficult way but an incomparable ressource.
The way he teaches is a whole training towards
autonomy.
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