Rule one: Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men.
Posted in Aikido on Sep 20th, 2007
Having just read and participated in a thread at aikiweb I was left pondering the purpose of Aikido.
Is Aikido is a means of teaching physical self-defence? How well does it fit the purpose and how good do you need to be to feel safe?
Is Aikido is a means of spiritual development? How is this aspect […]
Posted in Aikido on Aug 30th, 2007
Testing appears to be focused on the candidate performing techniques however, it seems to me that a greater emphasis is often placed on the art of ukemi in regular training.
As far as I am concerned, when taking ukemi for someone who is grading, one should make every effort to give the candidate as much to […]
Posted in Aikido on Jul 4th, 2007
I wrote a whole post about this book yesterday, which I am sure I saved (intending to finish the post today) and left open in the editor - unfortunately the browser crashed and I seem to have lost the post!
I’ll come back and add to this when I get a chance.
Back!
The book appears to be […]
Posted in Aikido on Jun 6th, 2007
How often are you taken out of your comfort zone?
Everyone will have their own notion of what I mean by ‘comfort zone’ and that’s ok. It could be having to make a presentation to 1000 people when you have a fear of public speaking, or cycling to work instead of taking the car.
For me, Aikido […]
Posted in Aikido on May 11th, 2007
Feeling a little better today, but with a change in the weather to windy and damp earlier this week, my attention was drawn to my various current aches and pains. (Ankle, back and shoulder).
Aikido is great for highlighting minor injuries and making them much worse! It’s also like a drug addiction. After you have been […]
Posted in Aikido on Mar 22nd, 2007
If I’ve been a little slack posting lately it’s because things have been crazy, both at work and personally.
This weekend just gone, I travelled to Poland along with 5 other students at Exeter Aikido.
We left at 8pm on Thursday evening and took two cars up to a house near Stanstead, where we could get our […]
Posted in Aikido on Mar 6th, 2007
Like the training scene from ‘Enter the Dragon’, on Saturday, 230 dedicated Aikidoka practiced for 4 hours under the guidance of Christian Tissier Shihan 7th Dan.
The mat area was full to capacity, with just enough space to allow energetic practice of a moderately enthusiastic nature.
For those of you that don’t train, to develop a greater […]
Posted in Aikido on Dec 21st, 2006
The practice of Aikido is one of those pursuits that highlights in some way or other weaknesses of a physical, mental or emotional nature. In this case, the weakness it toes…
My only breakage, in many years of training, has been a broken little toe. The incident occurred whilst taking ukemi for kaiten nage. I was […]