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 [...]
