Posted in Aikido, tagged Aikido, life, quotes on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Monday’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) – both from ai hanmi¹ and gyaku hanmi² stances
one wrist grabs with both hands (morote dori), both from ai [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
