Mental training is of capital importance in any aspect of life… in any martial art, not only in Aikido. A trained mind can achieve far more than a ‘normal’ individual who only sees the surface of things.
…Wait, what am I talking about here? Sure, mental training as a general concept is OK, but… what exactly [...]
Archive for June, 2008
You can help, too
Posted in Aikido, tagged Aikido, life on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
No matter how unskilled you might be, you can be sure that you’ll always be of great use at ‘fixing’ stuff, guided by others.
As a child, I used to spend many weekends and my grandfather, who is an engineer, watching and helping him “do stuff” around the house, such as mounting a new door, projecting [...]
Motivation
Posted in Aikido, tagged Aikido, life, training on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
N o t e :
This is a late-night essay inspired from a great post of Uchi Deshi and other related blog entries that I forgot where they came from since I read them. Discovering, at the beginning of my journey in Aikido, that others found it hard too and had their doubts… I realized I’m [...]
Weights training
Posted in Aikido, tagged Aikido, training on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
D i s c l a i m e r :
Don’t regard this post as a proposed ‘method’, not even as a general or particular truth. It reflects solely my own views and the extremely little experience on light weights training and its impact on my Aikido training.
One of the first things I considered [...]
Excuses vs. solutions
Posted in Aikido, tagged Aikido, quotes on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago, two new young students, around 20 years old, joined the dojo. Apparently, they’re friends (anyway, they speak another language between themselves, maybe Jewish, but I’m not sure). Naturally, they constantly run into the same problems that I experienced as a complete beginner.
One of the first problems they ran into is sitting [...]
Archives
Pages
-
Recent Posts
StatCounter
unique visitors
Tags
-
