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		<title>One step ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday&#8217;s class was some sort of a cumulus of the previous ~4 classes, which mainly studied grabbing attacks. Among the particular situations studied during the last trainings, there were one wrist grabs with one hand (katate dori) &#8211; both from ai hanmi¹ and gyaku hanmi² stances one wrist grabs with both hands (morote dori), both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=47&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental training</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental training is of capital importance in any aspect of life&#8230; in any martial art, not only in Aikido. A trained mind can achieve far more than a &#8216;normal&#8217; individual who only sees the surface of things. &#8230;Wait, what am I talking about here? Sure, mental training as a general concept is OK, but&#8230; what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=44&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can help, too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how unskilled you might be, you can be sure that you&#8217;ll always be of great use at &#8216;fixing&#8217; stuff, guided by others. As a child, I used to spend many weekends and my grandfather, who is an engineer, watching and helping him &#8220;do stuff&#8221; around the house, such as mounting a new door, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=42&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230; I realized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=35&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weights training</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[D i s c l a i m e r : Don&#8217;t regard this post as a proposed &#8216;method&#8217;, 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=32&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excuses vs. solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, two new young students, around 20 years old, joined the dojo. Apparently, they&#8217;re friends (anyway, they speak another language between themselves, maybe Jewish, but I&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=14&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s your MIND that blocks you</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first ever profound revelation in Aikido (but not limited to&#8230;) took place just a few classes after I started. It was the first weapons class that I participated in. Everybody was told to get a jo (a wooden staff of ~120 cm) and Sensei conducted the warm up. It felt very awkward, I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=13&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fortunate random&#8230; thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the last posts, I said I&#8217;ll come back to the idea of the &#8220;fortunate random thing&#8221;. I&#8217;m talking about the way I started practicing Aikido. It seemed a fortunate coincidence to have a colleague at work who has been practicing Aikido for over a year when I went with him for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=11&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The starting point</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel I&#8217;m not doing something the way I&#8217;d like to be doing it, I remind myself that most people are not born with a natural know-how. Of course, there are some truly talented people, but while talent itself is a gift, it cannot grow to reach its full potential unless you are actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=9&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How did it all start?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me I never practiced anything besides walking and riding the bike, I&#8217;m not particularly tall or muscle-cut, I don&#8217;t have an excellent cardiac rhythm, the same goes for breathing, I don&#8217;t have much physical endurance etc. In short, I&#8217;m not exactly what you&#8217;d call &#8216;suitable&#8217; for a sports person, even less for a martial arts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsonaikido.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3927994&amp;post=6&amp;subd=thoughtsonaikido&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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