“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley The words “form,” and “style,” tend to allude to and to calcify in the mindset of beginners, that of a dogmatic...
Archive - July 2011
Josh GoldYomiuri News: “Interview with Morihei Ueshiba”
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...
“Aikido: Dichotomy between the Martial and Spiritual,” by Alister Gillies
“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. — William Hazlitt” Aikido is a relatively modern martial art that tacitly acknowledges links with its Koryu (Japanese Classical Budo...
“Aikido and Hands,” by Bartłomiej Gajowiec
As I stated in my recent article on shoulders in aikido, shoulders are everywhere in the art and so are the hands. From the mechanical point of view, the hands are a very complicated complex of joints, muscles, tendons...
Administrating Peace
“Who loses and who wins, who’s in, who’s out— And take upon ‘s the mystery of things As if we were God’s spies. And we’ll wear out In a walled prison packs and sects of great ones...
“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...
Spotlight on one of Aikido’s most historic events
“It’s never happened before or since…” How many times did the likes of Morihiro Saito, Gozo Shioda, Minoru Mochizuki, Yoshio Sugino, and Kenji Shimizu demonstrate together on the same stage? Only...
“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...
“Building a Bridge between Heaven and Earth,” by Alister Gillies
West Meets East “The farthest west is but the farthest east.” Henry Thoreau At the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century the writing was on the wall for all to see. While the destructive force of war and...
“What If You Could Learn the Truth About How Morihei Created Aikido?”
“Much of what you believe and have been told about the birth and development of aikido is not fully accurate or distorted through omission of important facts. “Aikido Pioneers – Prewar Era” will go a...