It was a gamble building a dojo two and a half hours from the nearest city and 15 minutes from the nearest town. A gamble that would have made a real-estate agent with his ‘location, location, location’ rule shake his...
Archive - February 2009
Josh Gold“Aikido is the Future, Force, the Obsolete Past” by Nev Sagiba
“When both attacker and defender use force it degenerates into an unpredictable contest that we see all around us” There is no doubt that our ancestors left us a legacy of forcing, shoving, pushing, pulling...
Aikido training in Las Vegas: “The Garage Dojo” by Stanley Pranin
On two occasions during my career in aikido I have set up and taught out of garage dojos. The first experience was around 1974 in Monterey, California when our aikido class spent several months in my home garage in...