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How long is a piece of string?

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

Silence

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

Relax!

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

What’s in a mile?

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

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AIKIDO SENSEI AND SEMPAI…

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

When life gives you lemons…

There is always this floating question about the nature of ukemi, what it is and…

Gradings and development

Why do we bother with them? Why does a non competitive martial art continue to…

Kenshusei

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

Kiri otoshi or “cutting down”

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

A Journey with friends: A Baptism of Fire

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