Random Thoughts
I arrived in the Netherlands today, and had planned to fly to San Sebastián Spain to begin the first of three TrueAiki seminars tomorrow. However, KLM just cancelled tomorrow’s flight from the Netherlands to Spain. Unfortunately, that is happening quite frequently. If no other travel alternative is available, a virtual Read more…
In a few weeks I will be returning to teach in Europe after a break of almost three years due to the worldwide pandemic. Throughout the three years we endeavored to maintain practical contact via bi-monthly Zoom seminars. It is a credit to all of those that helped produce the seminars and Read more…
Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. She is such a remarkable person and has brought such joy and meaning to my life. More than once, it has been mentioned at the gym I work at that I always seem happy and am always smiling. From the time I grew up until today, my mom Read more…
Good news for TrueAiki.com Deutsche readers. One of our TrueAiki.com readers has begun translating the blogs! These translations should begin to roll out after the New Year. (We have to update our plugin (I think) that enables multilingual posts. This costs money and takes know-how. Our volunteer webmaster is currently Read more…
My laptop began telling me that I can’t do this and can’t do that unless I update to the latest operating system. The trouble is, the latest operating system won’t run on my “mature” laptop. I like to push my hardware to last as long as it will. I happily Read more…
Hi TrueAiki readers! Recently, I received an email inviting me to virtually participate in a live seminar featuring Mr. Roy Goldberg. Having, unfortunately, missed the opportunity to attend the last live seminar here in Oregon, I jumped at the opportunity to virtually attend this one. A few training friends were Read more…
I like the look of TrueAiki.com. I think it looks pretty classy. I DO NOT like the organization of TrueAiki.com. In order to get the most from reading True Aiki I think one necessarily needs to start out by reading the first blogs to get an idea of what is Read more…
Hi TrueAiki readers. What happened to Allen? I thought he was retiring and going to have all of this extra time on his hands to post on TrueAiki. Well, I did retire. (As you know.) Then I studied hard over the summer and passed the National Academy of Sports Medicine’s Read more…
Every so often, a “rough and tumble” Aikido demonstration video pops up on social media, usually followed by the adulation of those who apparently consider such demonstrations as “proof” of either the martial ability of the individual demonstrating, or of the martial viability of the style being demonstrated. Let’s Read more…
I am officially retired! What to do to celebrate? Another translation by Doug Walker of course! This time it is an article from Budo magazine featuring an interview with Nakajima Masanori shihan, and it is all about Shirata Rinjiro 10th Dan. Surprise, suprise, there is content directly relating to internal Read more…