Archive for April, 2008

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Switching Arts

The training and study of several different martial arts just to be able to say I know them is not my style. I believe in being practical. Multi-tasking is not conducive to my wellbeing. Multi-tasking leads to many problems. After encouragement from my brother-in-law from whom I borrowed several black belt magazines, I stepped on [...]

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Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Tell Me About Aikido

A potential student called me some years ago to inquire about Aikido. I asked what he was looking for. His question was “What is Aikido? Tell me something about it because I think I want to try it.” I hesitated as I usually do when asked to describe one of my passions. Telling someone how [...]

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