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Sharing the feeling of 5th Dan
Well, it’s almost twenty years since I first walked through the doors at the Brisbane Yoshinkan Aikido Dojo. I still remember it as if it was yesterday. The first class I did focussed on hijiate kokyu nage. I remember thinking how nuanced the movements were – how such a slight angle…
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Why Yoshinkan Aikido? Above all, because it works!
Coffee Break: The efficacy of Yoshinkan You may have come across people questioning Aikido’s practicality in a ‘real’ situation. You might have seen comments on YouTube or someone you know saying, ‘Oh, Aikido doesn’t work in real situations… but what if this happened… what if that happened… oh, if you…
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The Journey to Nidan
The journey to Nidan for me has been quite a few years. You would think by now I have a good grip on things. Ha! Aikido humour, Get it? Grip…Never mind. Now after the dust has settled I can look back and feel this has been a great moment in…
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2018 Demonstration Winners
Aikido symbolises the way of adapting the spirit. I joined Aikido Yoshinkan at the Sunshine Coast Dojo in 2015 because I was intrigued by watching my brother train. Not only because it looked fun to flip people around by a 12-year-old but because I was curious of the art behind…
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If only it was easier, if only…
I often overhear people prefacing what they say with things like, ‘If only it was easier, I would…’ or ‘If I had more time, I would…’ or even ‘I wish I could…, but…’. And they are right! Well, perhaps in part anyway. If we were presented with the ‘right’, ‘correct’,…
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Sharing the thoughts of our black belts
Below is an article written by Darren Holloway. It is a reflection on his training in Aikido so far and written following his achievement of Shodan. Black belt!! … Finally yeah😀Black belt … Just the beginning 😩… For myself personally it has never been about the black belt. The training is…
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Sharing the thoughts of our black belts
Below is an article written by Sean Keogh. It is a reflection on his training in Aikido so far and written following his achievement of Shodan. What Aikido Means to Me When I started training in martial arts in a very haphazard way when I was young in the UK…
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Training your senses
Below is an article written by Michiharu Mori Shihan. As always, I hope you find this article as insightful as I have. The article gives us rare insight into the life and times of Yoshinkan’s founder Master Gozo Shioda through the recollections of Mori Shihan, who spent 10 years under…
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The Spirit of Bushido
Below is a recent article written by Michiharu Mori Shihan. I hope you find this article as insightful as I have. As we all know, we are all on the aikido journey that parallels our life journey in many ways. Even though we are all at different stages of these…
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Sentiments from the source – words and thoughts of O-Sensei
‘Budō[i] is a divine path established by the gods that leads to truth, goodness, and beauty; it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe and the ultimate grand design of creation’ (Ueshiba, 1991). Morihei Ueshiba (also known as O-Sensei) founded the wonderful art that we…
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