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Damn them! Damn them all! Never ever trust the eyes. They will lie to you every time. Misdirection is a mistress that will lose you the initiative if you let it and cost you the fight.
5 Feb 2023, 13:56
15 Jan 2023, 11:24
In a martial sense, it takes years of training to be able to understand the fine line between sen-no-sen and meaning of sensen-no-sen.
17 Dec 2022, 15:25
Masamichi Noro was born January 21, 1935 in Aomori, Japan. One of the characteristics of his early years is the musical universe that surrounded him, and which strongly influenced his sensibility. His education destined him to be a medical doctor, but one encounter re-directed the course of his life toward the martial arts, irrevocably. In 1955, while pursuing university studies, his uncle arranged for him to be presented to a famous master of Ju-jitsu, Morihei Ueshiba, the kaichō 開帳 of Aikido.
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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