Aikido Study Guides Available
Windsong aikido students: Are you getting ready for a belt promotion? We’ve created some handy study guides to help make sure you are prepared.
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Principles and Preferences
by Nick Lowry A wise old sensei once pointed out that if you take a whole variety of different hard stylists and watch their kata, an educated eye can tell them apart , but when you take that same lot of hard stylists and put them in a contest, it all winds up looking like…
- Aikido | Blog | Nick Lowry
Zazen and Aiki
by Nick Lowry Do not seek conflict and do not maintain guile. Do not hide or run away from conflict and do not blind yourself. Each transition requires awarness and precision — we tend to want to avoid problems and that tendency tends to further our entanglements. The way out of entanglement is to go…
- Aikido | Blog | Kyle Sloan
Aikido: Ground Self Defense Part 4
by Kyle Sloan; Cameron Siemens, Uke; Photography & Video by Rob Goodwill Well, we messed up somewhere. Uke managed to slip past our legs. When practicing, uke should come to a kneeling position. This makes the falls much more low impact and safer. Place two hands together in one spot. You want to grab the…
- Aikido | Blog | Nick Lowry
Aiki-Feel
by Nick Lowry So much of what we do, if we do it well, is a matter of feel. Sensitivity, touch, and full body presence. Actions and reflexes all finely tuned to sensations. Lightness in the hands, like holding a baby or petting a cat or lighter, allows for high grade sensitivity with minimal interference…
- Aikido | Blog | Jodo | Judo | Nick Lowry
What is Rank About?
by Nick Lowry As an institutional device we can say that there is no such thing as rank in an absolute term– institutionally Rank is always based on a relative scale – some systems rank players/practitioners against each other – others systems grade your rank up or down with each performance- it is never absolute…
