Where’s Allen?

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) and work on TrueAiki.com before anyone else is awake. That way work on the blog is getting done every day!

Want proof?  I will be putting up a post in the next couple of days!

Then I plan to write about TDD 4 – 6 and then dig into TDD 7 – 10.  There should be more video coming out too, but that can’t get done a little at a time so that will have to wait for a big film day and a big editing day.

I have a super cool new intro (more pyrotechnics) so I’m excited to get that up.  The intro won’t help your Aiki but it IS super cool . . . so it has that going for it!

Also, there will be a new guest post coming relatively soon.  So I  am looking forward to sharing that.

On a personal level, I’ve been working out regularly (outside of my daily IP/Aiki work, and 4x weekly 2 hour Aiki training with others), meditating regularly, and have been enjoying regular growth in understanding and ability where Aiki is concerned.  Besides my regular training this summer I decided to personally focus on atemi.  Due to my early karate training I found it easy to fall into old habits when sparring.  In other words, I would unconsciously use old motor skills rather than Aiki.  I decided to wait until my Aiki related motor skills and conditioning was pretty well “dyed in the wool” before I began messing around with deeply engrained body habits.  I didn’t have deeply engrained body habits specific to (for example) Judo, so I could do that (after several years of just training Aiki) without risk of falling back to old habits when stressed.  I call it, “running home to Mama.”  Under enough stress we all “run home to Mama” (unconsciously turn to that which we feel assures us the most security).  So, if we want to do a certain thing in highly stressful situations, we must convince ourselves, via experience, that that “certain thing” is our surest bet for survival.  In other words, we have to convince ourselves that the “certain thing” is “Mama.”  It appears that my timing was right, because the practice has led to improvement.  Of course there is still room for further growth.  (My teachers set the bar high!) It is pretty cool to be 50 something (Which I will be until I’m 60 something) and more rapidly than ever, getting stronger both technically and physically than I ever thought would be possible.  So, that’s me happy!

Stay tuned for more to come!!

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