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“Aiki Principles in Aikido” is a seminar on DVD with Saotome Sensei that focuses on what the feeling, intent, and purpose of Takemusu Aiki. He focuses on several insights which are important to realizing the benefits and substance of aikido.
Continue reading “Technique is no special thing.” Saotome Sensei instructs on practicing “Aiki Principles.”
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Samurai, monks, rulers, and schoolchildren are taught the way of the brush as a way of understanding the deeper meaning of culture and language. That being said, this is an amazing way to start learning about the characters central to aikido practice. Continue reading Calligraphy, Characters, and “Magic Paper”
Aikido is supposed to be non-oppositional, this is an example of a technique where we often miss that point. Continue reading Kosa Dori Kotogaeshi
This is one of the few lessons Saito Sensei gave showing how a basic movement becomes a variety of techniques. Aikido is not the application of specific techniques. Techniques are opportunities that arise in the relationship between the attack and non-oppositional response.