by Aikido Journal | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
A very nicely put together article I discovered on the International Hapkido Federation website. Worth checking out. “Ki” (body and mind coordination) If the origins of nearly every traditional martial art in existence today were explored, one would find...
by Aikido Journal | Oct 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I great article I came across recently by Tom Muzila. A COMPARISON OF TWO TRADITIONAL, YET SEEMINGLY DIFFERENT, JAPANESE STYLES. Karate-do and Aikido by Tom Muzila. (excerpts) Aikido and shotokan karate are popularly viewed as vastly different styles. Their approaches...
by Aikido Journal | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Is he :A: Pushing air with his hand movement to blow out the candle?B: Sneakily blowing the candle out, maybe via nasal breath?C: actually using Ki extended to blow out the candle? There are a lot of these kind of videos on Youtube. This piqued my interest though,...