Nick NicholsonApr 175 minSensei Oly Medlicott - a Martial Arts PathGrowing up between Kyiv, Ukraine and grandma’s place in Stavropol, Russia, I was interested to join my classmates for judo classes....
Brian EricksenJan 142 minThe Best AikidoI finished my lesson with my son and we bowed thanking God. Almost every day I try to sit in meditation and then do a few minutes of...
Brian EricksenAug 23, 202313 min"Aikido is circle": 8 Principles of Ukemi I once asked Sugano Sensei what correct ukemi was. “There is alive and there is dead” he replied. When I asked him what he meant he...
Sensei Brian EricksenAug 23, 20238 minWhy Sugano Sensei was SpecialOn August 29th, 2010 Sensei Seiichi Sugano passed into another existence. Though I was Yoshimitsu Yamada's uchideshi, we were fortunate...
Brian EricksenFeb 24, 202310 minYoshimitsu Yamada: Passing of the Most Important Aikido Teacher in the WorldThe New York Times obituary for Yamada Sensei read, “Yoshimitsu Yamada, Who Brought Aikido to the U.S., Dies at 84.” The headline was...
Nick NicholsonJan 13, 20222 minDay 8 Sugano Sensei Remebrance/ "If Aikido is about love."24 August 2007. Traveling with Sensei in cab. Sugano Sensei “In Aikido there is no relationship between words and pretty ideas of Aikido...