Annual True Aiki European Winter Training 2023
Annual True Aiki European Winter Training for 2023 in Zwolle, The Netherlands
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Annual True Aiki European Winter Training for 2023 in Zwolle, The Netherlands
During this summer’s European teaching tour (2022) I finished a blog which will be published in at least three segments. This summer’s seminars focused upon creating In/Yo (Aiki) within one’s body. The goal for participants is to be able to experience creating Aiki (even if only in a small way), Read more…
I’m not sure why, but I always get to missing my dad around the holidays. Maybe it is because he tried so hard to make sure that they were special for the family, and always succeeded. My father passed away in 1991. I remember I made a point of visiting Read more…
I first met Dan “virtually” on Aikiweb. Initially I read some of the exchanges there which had the potential to be enlightening, but were so filled with acrimony that I tended to simply avoid them leaning more towards the writings of Ellis Amdur and Professor Peter Goldsbury. Nevertheless, when I Read more…
I first began martial arts training in about 1972/1973. My father gave me a Judo book for my birthday, I think, but I wanted to do Kung Fu since Bruce Lee was very popular at the time. The main obstacles holding me back from that desire was time, opportunity and money. Read more…