Hello Joe, Stuart Broughton deceased? I am sorry to hear this. I can remember Margaret and also Mick Holloway at Chiswick and I think I trained...
Takeshita Isamu wrote his notes much earlier than 1933. (The book that Mr Ando is discussing consists of notes compiled by students at the Kobukan...
Hello Koyo, I agree entirely with the contents of your post, except for the Japanese distinction between keiko and renshu. Without a context,...
I think some care is needed in this discussion. It was phrases like 'head' or 'representative of the Aikikai in Australia' and 'claiming to...
I do not really have an axe to grind in this discussion. I myself trained with Chiba Shihan and I know Sugano Shihan quite well. In fact, I would...
I think this is the statement posted by Ogmios, but I can find no video of the representative in the thread. "Having said that, who you trained...
Yes. This was my reaction. I probably meet the present Doshu more often than anyone else in this forum and am in a position to discuss such...
That is Noro Sensei, is it not? When I started aikido, a French friend of mine was regularly training at his Paris dojo. I think he had left the...
Hello Mr Jamieson, I have been following this thread with great interest. Matthew Holland and I took our shodan grading together in October...
Hello Koyo, Yes, I have the book and the picture is on Page 53. In the caption Takakura was called a 'new face' in movies (which was around...
Hello Koyo, I have seen this picture before and I understand that the deshi who is on his knees executing the waza is a youthful Yoshimitsu...
Hello Koyo, The photo you posted shows Chiba S as a young man. When I first met him, he was in a bad humour and wore a bandage from an ankle...
Hello Steve, In my aikido dojo, here in Hiroshima, we do not slap the mat. Beginners are taught to keep their hands clasped throughout the mae...
Hello, The chief instructor, John Smartt, mentions that he spent seven years in Japan engaged in a variety of pursuits, that he was awarded a...
A surprising thing I have found from teaching aikido in Japan is that the Japanese members of the dojo have just as much difficulty in...
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