The following interview was published in the “Shukan Yomiuri” newspaper on May 27, 1956, and is published with the kind permission of the Yomiuri Shimbun Company. The text is being presented in two...
Archive - July 2011
“Applying aikido in real life on the train in Japan,” by Stanley Pranin
“I immediately stood up and ran to the other end of the car. Neither man saw me coming. One was in a rage and the other dazed.” Many people who practice aikido have read the famous story titled “A Kind Word...
“Martial Arts Practice and the Deceived Mind,” by Stanley Pranin
This blog has been brewing in my brain for a long time. I have noted what to me is an inexplicable phenomenon in the thinking of many martial artists. Allow me to lay out the scenario. Although there are many reasons...