9-11, Ground Zero and the Art of Peace
Photo Credit: Scott Laperruque On the morning of 9-11 I had finished a morning class at New York Aikikai (NYA) and was helping to clean...
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Brian Ericksen
Aug 252 min
"Have to do practice, meditation, prayer." 2024 Mountain Training reading 3/3.
“Aikido could be classified as Japanese martial art. Developed among samurai society. Techniques at base are fighting. Aikido is not mart
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Brian Ericksen
Aug 252 min
"Aikido is... love". 2024 Mountain Training reading 2/3
24 August 2007. Traveling with Sensei to Belgian, Global Inner Aikido Seminar (GIAS.) Sugano Sensei. “In Aikido there is no relationship...
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Brian Ericksen
Aug 189 min
Why Sugano Sensei was Special: 2024 Mountain Training reading 1/3.
Heaven and Earth Aikido dojo 2024 Mountain Training message
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Nick Nicholson
Jun 53 min
Maai is Everything
In 2018, Sensei Tony posted this to our Facebook page. As relevant today as it was then. There was a song on the radio this morning that...
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Nick Nicholson
Apr 175 min
Sensei Oly Medlicott - a Martial Arts Path
Growing up between Kyiv, Ukraine and grandma’s place in Stavropol, Russia, I was interested to join my classmates for judo classes....
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Brian Ericksen
Jan 142 min
The Best Aikido
I 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...
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Brian Ericksen
Aug 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...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
Aug 23, 20238 min
Why Sugano Sensei was Special
On August 29th, 2010 Sensei Seiichi Sugano passed into another existence. Though I was Yoshimitsu Yamada's uchideshi, we were fortunate...
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Brian Ericksen
Feb 24, 202310 min
Yoshimitsu Yamada: Passing of the Most Important Aikido Teacher in the World
The New York Times obituary for Yamada Sensei read, “Yoshimitsu Yamada, Who Brought Aikido to the U.S., Dies at 84.” The headline was...
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Nick Nicholson
Jan 13, 20222 min
Day 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...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
Jan 12, 20222 min
Day 7 Sugano Sensei Remembrance/ "You must make Aikido for yourself."
(Continued from Day 6) BE- You spoke earlier on breathing exercise. We do it as part of the warm up but it is not an important part of...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
Jan 11, 20223 min
Day 6 Sugano Sensei Remembrance/ "Tsuki is proper use of sword."
(Continued from Day 5) BE- Something that has been very confusing to me has been that in the sword style I am learning they teach a very...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
Jan 10, 20222 min
Day 5 Sugano Sensei Remembrance/ "Aikido is not a martial art."
Brian Ericksen : Sensei, I started taking classes in Battodo. It has been very interesting to use a real sword and cut through things. As...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
May 6, 20211 min
Day 4 Sugano Sensei Remembrance: “Circle has no end and Aikido is a circle.”
On being a student. Sugano Sensei. Aikido is measured in years and minutes. When you start to learn you need years to see way. Student...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
May 6, 20211 min
"...but really technique is to kill.”
(Notes from 2007 Global Inner Aikido School (GIAS) discussion) Sugano Sensei. “There is a contradiction (in Aikido) between philosophy...
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Tony Breda Sensei
Apr 16, 20215 min
Self Defense: Does Aikido 'Work'?
Aiki Blog - Self Defense If you spend any time at all on the Internet searching discussions, videos and blogs regarding Aikido, the topic...
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Tony Breda Sensei
Apr 9, 20212 min
Solo Training Part 1- Noren Giri
Last year I had the privilege of hosting the entire dojo for a training session that culminated in testing for a number of students at my...
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Sensei Brian Ericksen
Jan 5, 20213 min
Philosophy of Aikido is Love
(2007 Global Inner Aikido Seminar (GIAS) in Belgium.) BE. Why do you do Aikido Sensei? Sugano Sensei. "Doing Aikido too long! (Laughs)...