This past month I have done a series of posts on the first advanced kata in the Tomiki aikido curriculum - Koryu Dai Ichi. It is a seldom-performed exercise , and I think that is a shame because it tells some interesting stories about variations in initiative and variations onthe most fundamental wrist release actions. If you're interested in the topic, you might enjoy going back and checking out some of the posts this past month...
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For the past several months I've been posting technique compilation videos on Saturdays and I've been following the order of the Gok...
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photo from: http://files.4medicine.pl/download.php?cfs_id=1388 Our judo and aikido teacher, Karl Geis, attributed a significant port...
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Someone asked me a while back to post what I consider to be pros and cons of aikido and judo – sort of what I like and dislike about aiki...
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Boy, I thought that Dave had found nearly the ultimate example a few months ago of a bunch of chi-tards and their hippie shenanigans, but th...
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It seems that Japanese arts (we'll take aikido as an example for this post) seem to have a different concept of posture than do Chinese ...