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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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Aikido: Advice for the Kyu Grades
Jim Ellison (original post from Spiritual Gravity blog) In our dojo, we have four levels between white and black belts: yonkyu (green belt), sankyu (brown belt), nikyu (brown belt), and ikkyu (brown belt with black stripe). While these are still considered beginner ranks, students in this range have been exposed to the basic principles of…
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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…
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Karma and Practice
by Nick Lowry Karma is about what we do to and with ourselves—about action and consequence and about the shape of our lives. There is something quite mechanical about karma—it is sometime taken as a punitive or rewarding idea or force but really it seems more like a impersonal activity that just happens to effect…
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Budo: From Force to Gentleness
Violence will solve some problems but gentleness will solve all of them. Force has its place, we do achieve effects but employing violence, that much is undeniable, but when the use of force becomes adopted as the default strategy for responding to anxiety, then we fall prey to a pernicious and avoidable cycle.
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Aikido: Kote Gaeshi to Kote Hineri Loop
On the surface, this seemingly simple drill has a lot to offer. For clarity, I will describe the drill for the right side only. You can perform the drill from a static or near static position as you learn the mechanics. Once you have the mechanics move on to a moving form of the drill….
