those who want to learn front split, please check out my article

http://olgarundel.livejournal.com/734.html

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This is a sword art, not aikido, but...it made me laugh too much not to share. What happens when someone skilled in something with no practical application is noticed by Japanese TV?

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I'm looking for an iaito to buy as a first non-bokken practice weapon for Eishin Ryu.  Would appreciate input from anyone with experience in this sort of thing.

Details of my iaito-related web-wanderings here (spent Way Too Many hours on the web today):http://randomdiversion.livejournal.

Had a run-in with a bully...would like your opinions.

fake lj-cut to my journal

hi! i (and two other instructors) are starting a new class. we will be practicing in porter square, cambridge, massachusetts, on sundays at 11:30 am, starting in the middle of august. our style is kokikai with ki-society influences, by which i mean i will be teaching kiatsu as it comes up along with the throwing arts ( Read more... )

I'm stupid as I lent my copy of Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere to a Jujitsu student who wants to take up Aikido when he goes to college and I haven't seen him since (it's been a little more than a month). I'll have to get Tashi Anthony or Sensei Mike to get it from him when he comes back because it was an expensive book and it'll make sense to me at ( Read more... )

After a year of flailing on the mat, something must be soaking in. I find myself "stepping off the line" whenever Chuck Norris advertises "World of Warcraft".

I think its pretty common among martial arts beginners to occasionally have fantasies of being a ninja or kicking some would-be-attacker's ass. Fortunately we live in a world where incidents that require an ass-kicking are rare. So if we're probably not ever going to physically fight anyone, what is aikido for ( Read more... )

...so...a 1935 film of Osensei:

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