Mental training

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 [...]

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Motivation

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 [...]

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Weights training

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 [...]

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It’s your MIND that blocks you

My first ever profound revelation in Aikido (but not limited to…) 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 like [...]

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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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