Tokio Hirano was one of the, if not THE winningest competition judoka in history.
The story goes that he racked up 4300 competition wins in 6 years in western Europe in the early 1950's. That's more than 700 wins per year, year-after-year! Who among us modern mortals can even conceive of attempting 14-15 shiai matches per week for 6 years?
Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Aikido Ground Fighting by Walther G. Von Krenner
. This is a really interesting book in a couple of ways.
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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... -
Some folks like to characterize aikido as a circular martial art. Some folks like to talk about various styles that may be more (Aikikai, Ki...
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Here is a good example of one phenomenon that I talked about at the seminar this past weekend. In these film clips, the point of view...
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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 ...
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Here we have a lovely hanegoshi springing hip throw! Want to discuss this blog post? Come find me on Facebook at my Mokuren Dojo FB...
