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2 May 2022, 16:54
Coyle sensei and I were told by Chiba shihan to go to a certain town...
27 Apr 2022, 13:07
A great uke will attack with the necessary speed, direction, attack, precision, energy, resistance and intensity to fulfill the needs of the training exercise. These factors will all vary and be dependent on the level of tori they are working with and what they are learning.
21 Apr 2022, 22:11
Multiple adversaries should be seized as a whole, like a single adversary, while against just one attacker, movements suitable for multiple adversaries are appropriate.
21 Apr 2022, 10:21
The grand finale of each week at the Hombu Tokyo was Chiba Sensei’s Friday afternoon class. The term “battleground” comes to mind, a battleground of emotion. The emotional intensity, and range of emotions in that class was amazing — terror, fearlessness, vulnerability, and invincibility.
Seito no Kangae
The way of showing respect and gratitude with the right attitude.
This is not an article about Kiai, though the experience it describes offered me a point of view on it that I had not considered before.
When we’re fortunate enough to work with a more experienced Aikidoka we have a great chance to learn.
After the bell rings and the vibration dissipates into the either we can enter a few moments of silence to illuminate our present condition in mind body and breath and raise the spirit for our practice of Aikido.
Over the years, on my journey I have encountered several people who’ve said that Aikido is
ineffective as a martial art.
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