Fortunate random… thing?

In one of the last posts, I said I’ll come back to the idea of the “fortunate random thing”. I’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 [...]

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The starting point

Whenever I feel I’m not doing something the way I’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 [...]

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How did it all start?

Me
I never practiced anything besides walking and riding the bike, I’m not particularly tall or muscle-cut, I don’t have an excellent cardiac rhythm, the same goes for breathing, I don’t have much physical endurance etc. In short, I’m not exactly what you’d call ’suitable’ for a sports person, even less for a martial arts practitioner. [...]

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Solitary endless path…

Instead of an ‘intro’ post… well actually this is an introduction post.
At the point of writing this, I’m 22, I live somewhere in Europe and I work as a software testing engineer. Well, names and places are not too important, I feel, so I won’t go into many useless details.
I started training in Aikido at [...]

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