Aikido

2021 Aikikai Hombu Dojo Kagami Biraki Promotions List
From: Jun Akiyama posted on 10. Jan 2021, 08:31am
URL: http://aikikai.or.jp/pdf/suisen/2021.pdf

Here is the 2021 New Year's Kagami Biraki promotions list from Aikikai Hombu Dojo. Who would you like to congratulate? Let us know in a comment!

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Jan 16, 2021: Aikido Bridge Seminar (Zoom)
From: Lisa Tomoleoni posted on 1. Jan 2021, 09:05pm
URL: https://www.sandiegoaikido.com/2021-san-diego-bridge

Jan 16, 2021. Join us in celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Aikido Bridge Seminars. The Bridge Seminars began in San Diego at Jiai Aikido. Jiai will host this celebratory seminar on January 16, 2021 over Zoom. All affiliations, dojo, and styles are welcome. See our website for further information: https://www.sandiegoaikido.com/2021-san-diego-bridge

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With COVID-19 it's not easy to get your Aikido practice in. I've switched to mainly weapons training these days and put together a video on how to hold the sword for Aikido practice.

While in Japan, I learned that the weapons training should compliment and build the Aikido practice and techniques.

Aikiweapons and Aikido are part of the same system. Lifting a sword is like lifting your partner when executing a technique.

Watch my video on how to hold the Japanese Sword:

Shape of My Heart

Patton and Rommel
Machiavelli and Sun Tzu
Think they know the shape of my heart
Much better than you

I'm a lost warrior poet
Caught up in a febrile dream
Dancing with Musashi and Beowulf
Faraway on an errant moonbeam

But it is Tu Fu and Basho
Lord Byron and Poe
Firing madrigals and haiku
That will bring me back to Glasgow

Dickinson and Angelou
Whitman and Hughes
Providing inspiring stanza
That never fail to amuse

Armed with rhyme and meter
Along with blade and gun
I have Kipling and Frost
Wordsworth and Donne

But you know the shape of my heart
Longs for refuge and care
Far from desolate battlefields
Away from constant bloody warfare

How I long to just sit with you
Sharing Twain and Alighieri
Nestled securely under a shade tree
Distant from any mindless savagery

Patton and Rommel
Machiavelli and Sun Tzu
Musashi and Beowulf
Don't really know my heart like you

Merely Human

The monumental prospect
Of being merely human
To praise existence itself
Though our own death is preordained
The small beauties of ordinary life
The small evils of ordinary life

The Stoic would speak of
Right Perception, Right Action,
And Right Will
Buddhists, of the Eightfold Path
Me, I'm not so disciplined
I just sip my coffee
Writing checks for things
I can't afford