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“How long is this going to take?”, I asked. We were in Eagle St where…

A couple of years ago I was watching a fascinating film, Into great Silence filmed…

If there was ever an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms and an often over used…

Many a myth would flourish in San Diego Aikikai. Most of these would be centred…

Recollections Of My First 25 Years On The Mat: by Arthur C. Lockyear Anyone present…

Where are you? Where are the young people in Aikido? I am talking about the…

In the last couple of years I have been writing on and off with the…

“Cutting down” or “striking down”. This is the simple translation of Kiri Otoshi as used…

The enforced social isolation and the inability to go training as usual at the dojo…

I wrote this article several years ago as I recalled my early days in San…

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