This was originally posted on Gleason sensei’s Blog in 2018. If you can Join us for our seminar in November 1-3, 2019 Bill Gleason Sensei Aikido & the Eight Powers part 1 In the teachings of the founder we find. “Aikido is One Spirit, Four Souls, Three...
The“Aikido Koan” And It’s Implications For Our Practice By Ania Small Most everyone training Aikido is familiar with the famous O’Sensei quote: “There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing....
UNWANTED “HELP” ON THE MAT PART ONE By Ania Small As a woman training a martial art, I’ve been on the receiving end of teaching, or what I will also call here “helping” on the mat, many times. I will define it as offering verbal or non-verbal suggestions...
If you’ve been training for a while, you probably have heard at one point or another that you need to relax more. Easier said than done. To relax, you need to not tense up, and not doing something is really difficult. It’s much easier to focus on what to do...
Below is a post from our friend and Aikido teacher Dan Penrod from the other Portland! I have been thinking about this a great deal, and considering ways to help students figure out what is appropriate. Taking ukemi provides students of Aikido with some of the very...
The following article on Etiquette in the martial arts written by aikido historian Stanley Pranin is from Aikido Journal One of the things I like best about this discussion of the implied promise of the bow on the part of both sides to practice within safe bounds....
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