November 2009
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Today's "So-desu-ne" Moment
Being “centered” means to be in a place where you can spontaneously be in any other place.
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Looking for "Aikido" on a Cruise
Me and my family just came back from a cruise. I had never been on one of this magnitute. Let’s get to the point. It was hard to find the “Aikido.” If you’ve ever been to a loud, crowded party and came to a point where it was just too much, that’s where I was at after about an hour or so. There we were…jamming through the ocean in a big can built to be a...
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"One"
At the dojo we’ve been focusing lately on the quality of initial contact when engaging Uke. I’ve been calling it “One,” as in step one. It seems to be helping a lot with peoples’ integrity of form and application. Here’s the basic outline. Upon initial contact Nage has a base with a center line extending out of it, and that base-center is in deliberate relation to...
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Today's "So-desu-ne" Moment
Aikido is much about change—dealing with it effectively, creating it, being it. It’s inevitable, and so our training should contain focus on appropriate perspective so that our actions are authentic and effective. This means challenging the perspective that has taken us to where we are today for better and for worse.
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“A problem cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness in which it was...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Don’t ask how to do this. Ask who you need to be where this is possible.”
– Robert Nadeau Shihan
http://www.cityaikido.com/nadeau.html
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http://www.grabmywrist.com/post/229450097/teacher-i... →
A smart and conscious post by Linda Eskin on her blog, Grab My Wrist.