by Aikido Journal | May 26, 2011 | Aikido martial arts self defence, awareness, Conflict resolution, daily life, perspective, posture, principles of ki
Someone asked me the other day why I practice Aikido. My answer nearly always now is “because I can’t imagine my life without it”. But it got me thinking and after a bit of surfing I found a very nice outline of many of the key benefits of our...
by Aikido Journal | Apr 19, 2010 | Aikido martial arts self defence, daily life, perspective, problems
A nice little article by my young friend Sensei Nick Engelen.During Friday night class I was partnered up with Jimmy. We worked on our technique but it seemed something was wrong with Jimmy. I stopped for a moment and asked if he was ill, he told me that he was fine,...