Among the video clips in the Aikido Journal archives is one of Second Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba performing at the 1986 All-Japan Aikido Demonstration at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Doshu gave an especially energetic demonstration on this occasion and the three ukemi—Tsuruzo Miyamoto, Hayato Osawa, and Yoshiaki Yokota—are nothing short of phenomenal!
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About ten years ago a women’s centre invited me to do a one day seminar in “self-defence.” I explained that one day is simply not enough to even begin to get an idea about the potentials involved in violence but the lady who made the call said: “Come along anyway. Oh and by the way do you mind if the ladies are wearing veils.”
“In these situations the desire to become stronger is fuelled by the fear of future emotional hurt, and can become entwined with the situation itself. When this happens, we can become so attached to the particular event that we put all our effort into ensuring that it never happens again. The reality is that all our effort will probably go to waste as this situation will not happen again, only to be bowled over by something we never expected.”
“Just like me, Moshe Feldenkrais was both a therapist and a Judo black belt. Unlike me, Feldenkrais was a genius. Everything that I have ever read by or about Feldenkrais has been mind-blowingly thought provoking, including his book, Awareness Through Movement, and his Judo Groundwork book which is interpreted in this essay at Judoinfo (this is cool too). Any of Feldenkrais’ stuff that I read once I have to read over and over”
Internal Energy Workshop Session #2 by Gary Ohama was presented several times during October.
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