Random Thoughts
Hello, I’m still here! After traveling and teaching, I just got busy around the house towards the end of summer. And then work picked up. I have established a NEW and IMPROVED personal routine now though. I get up 30 minutes early (I’m working my way up to 60 minutes) Read more…
Hello you Wonderful People!, I began cleaning out Facebook Friends today. Facebook allows me 5K friends and I routinely hit that limit. So here is the un-scientific, un-sofistcated means by which I am doing this. I scroll down the list (5K takes a while) and if a name doesn’t have Read more…
Son of Allen’s Birthday Haiku Aiki Shugyosha’s Lament Again, I struggle Resisting non-resistance No Way of Aiki Aiki Shugyosha’s Triumph No struggling now Wonderful non-resistance The Way of Aiki Master of Self-Defense Self-Defense is not Victory over one’s “Self” True Victory is No Self, No Master, Nothing to Defend True Read more…
Check this guy out. What’s he doing? His belly button is in a vertical line with his chest. He is rotating around his center of balance, which is between his feet. His spine is bowed. His elbows are down, keeping an equal and opposite distance from his thorax. His shoulders Read more…
Starting from the outside in here are of few of the symbolic representations in the TrueAiki logo. Circle: The circle represents the undifferentiated infinite, the absolute, that without beginning and without end, the one source from which all come and to which all return Four Black Triangles pointing to the Read more…
Hi Folks, I have copied all of the Vlogs made so far to YouTube and posted them on a new TrueAiki YouTube channel. TrueAiki.com YouTube If you subscribe to the channel you will automatically get updates when new videos are posted. (I think. I’m new to all of this.) Of Read more…
Hi Folks, I just finished my next answer to a question blog. I still have to clean it up before publishing, but it is in the works. Also, I will film what to do with the arms during TDD 4 – 6. This will also help to clarify what to Read more…
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you know that I had been ill the day before we filmed the last Vlog, and had the beginnings of a migraine during filming. Afterwards it went full on! So if you are wondering why look unhappy and unhealthy . . . its because Read more…
Hi Folks, I’m almost done editing the next segment of the TDD #2 and #3 push training VLOG. It will show several ideas for push training. The last segment will show how that training relates to TDD #2 & #3, in case it wasn’t clear. It has been suggested by Read more…
Friday I finished the edit and rendered it. Turns out I rendered the original. Saturday fixed a few things and re-rendered the edited version. Every time I tried to upload the file to WordPress there was an “error.” So today, Sunday, I will try breaking it in to three 10 Read more…