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Aikido techniques, training stories, interviews, Japanese and Western culture, self-development articles, martial arts technique analysis. All in one place.
- Added on: Dec 17th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Connor and Zolley
- Listed in: Sports Lifestyle
- Tags: martial arts aikido basics Technique instructions aikikai
Recent Posts
Martial arts and their misinterpretation
A couple of days ago, when I was writing the address of my dojo's website onto the pavement with chalk (with the aim of drawing attention to martial arts, especially to aikido), a little kid was coming by with his mother. As he saw what I was doing h...
Doshu Seminar in Almere, Holland - Day 2
On the second day of the Doshu weekend there was one training in the morning and a number of demonstrations in the afternoon. Here's what happened: read more...
Doshu Seminar in Almere, Holland - Day 1
On 14-15 November 2009, Doshu Ueshiba Moriteru held a seminar in the Netherlands. The event was (as far as I know) in correlation with the facts that the Netherlands commemorate the 400th anniversary of starting trade relations with Japan this year, ...
Little differences
Vincent: But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is? Jules: What? Vincent: It's the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there that we got here, but it's just – it's just there it's a little different. read more...
How selfish is Aikido?
I have some sort of confusion about our martial art when it comes to the concepts of harmony, control, centre, and so on. Connor has already made some comparisons between aikido and other martial arts (see his self-defence post series,[1] [2] [3] [4]...
New dojo and stages of cultural/dojo shock
Before going on to relating to other people in the dojo, I would like to write about the overall process of dojo-change. I've recently read about the steps of cultural shock (and I wrote a post about it which was lost just before submitting...), beca...
