Category: Uncategorized
-
Coffee Break: A little more knowledge for your training
As we start our journey to the end of a tumultuous 2020 and embrace the challenge of a reduced demonstration in the sense of size or exposure, please approach it with the same sense of opportunity to grow, to push yourself to be better. Then you will celebrate more profoundly…
-
Staying in touch with the dojo – its more than just a place to learn how to fight!
I hope you and your family are doing ok in this time of confinement and isolation and looking after each other. Many people seem to be getting down or depressed during this time despite not actually losing a loved one to the virus. Yes, we are all effected in some…
-
COFFEE BREAK: A little more knowledge for your Aikido training
Below you will find an insightful window into Mori Michiharu Shihan’s life as uchi-deshi at the Hombu Dojo in Tokyo while Master Gozo Shioda was alive. I hope you too can find little gems of wisdom hidden between the lines of his writing to help you further in your…
-
‘A Voice from the past’ – Advice from the founder of Yoshinkan Gozo Shioda Kancho Sensei (10th Dan) – Episode 3.
Here is the third instalment of insights I’m sharing from the founder of Yoshinkan about Aikido. I hope to share Master Gozo Shioda’s teachings on fundamental points relating to Yoshinkan Aikido and life more generally. You will read personal anecdotes from his writings about his experiences training in Aikijujutsu in…
-
A laugh with a serious message…
Mori Shihan wrote an article this month that I would like to share with you. I see it as a fitting note with which to end the year. The article might shock you, gross you out, make you laugh, but mostly I hope it leaves you with an understanding of…
-
‘A Voice from the past’ – Advice from the founder of Yoshinkan Gozo Shioda Kancho Sensei (10th Dan) – Episode 2.
Here is the second instalment of insights I’m sharing from the founder of Yoshinkan about Aikido. I hope to share Master Gozo Shioda’s teachings on fundamental points relating to Yoshinkan Aikido. Additionally, you will read personal anecdotes from his writings about his personal experiences training in Aikijutsu in the mid…
-
‘A Voice from the past’ – Advice from the founder of Yoshinkan Gozo Shioda Kancho Sensei (10th Dan). Episode 1.
In the coming posts I will be sharing insights from the founder of Yoshinkan about Aikido. I will share Master Gozo Shioda’s teachings on fundamental points relating to Yoshinkan Aikido. Additionally, you will read personal anecdotes from his writings about his personal experiences training in Aikijutsu in the mid 1900s…
-
Amelia reflects on winning the award in Brisbane
Aikido has been a major part of my life for some time now. I would have to say that achieving my Black Belt will always be the greatest moment in my Aikido career, although, there are many other events that stand out almost as much. Winning the Aubrey Bannah award…
-
Reflections of the 2019 Brisbane Demonstration
Looking back on the experience makes me think of aiki-waza. I only see what happens on the outside of the Gi. A slight shift in Shite and Uke goes flying through the air. What happens inside the Gi, for me, like most of us is still a mystery. On the…
-
A little more knowledge for your Aikido training
The below article was written by Michiharu Mori Shihan (8th Dan) the last uchi-deshi (live in disciple) of the late Master Gozo Shioda (founder of Yoshinkan Aikido and direct student of O-Sensei). Please enjoy! ‘Developing one’s senses’ During my uchi-deshi life, one of my focus points for my daily training…
Goshu-Ryu SunCoast 