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The benefits and requirements of training
WHAT AIKIDO TRAINING CAN DO FOR YOU The warm up routine and the actual practising of technique, which may involve constant attacking,...
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- Aug 10, 2019
- 4 min
Finding the spiritual in aikido
A long term student recently told me that he felt that our study of aikido was ignoring the spiritual dimension of the art by focussing...
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- Feb 19, 2019
- 2 min
How to stop your opponent breaking your grip
Many techniques in aikido require a non-slip grip on uke's wrist. In particular gokyo (fifth pin) and shiho-nage are techniques in which...
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- May 16, 2018
- 5 min
Getting the most from being the attacker
The term uke is derived from the verb “ukeru” to receive and refers to the partner in a practice pair who traditionally provides the...
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- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
What's the Unbendable Arm and how can you use it
Here we have one of those mysteries of aikido. A mystery which many folk would say is extremely important to correct technique....
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