My post will be based on the fact that you're 27 by the birthdate in your profile, and in pretty good physical condition. Depending on how much...
Selected other. Reason? To master the use of ki, to learn elegance and gain dexterity, to study (aikido) as an artform like dance, is. And as...
I had two problems with two seperate people at the dojo, one was an instructor one was a student. With the instructor, he had this habit of...
As the topic says, what do you think warrior spirit is? I'll give my opinion after a few posts, rather see others views first.
Thanks for the compliments and encoragement, it's good when you train with some of the best, you learn a lot quickly. Your achievements are just...
Having Kancho (Kyoichi Inoue, 9th dan Yoshinkan aikido) show me a technique personally, then later at a dinner sitting opposite him. Spending...
Indeed, welcome to MAP, enjoy our stay! :)
Well that would stop me from wanting to give up training even if I found it very very hard.
Just wanted to say, I respect you and your story. For what it's worth.
What seemed to be missing is a goal. It's all well and good to train for training's sake but it's important to set a relatively achievable goal...
My opinion/advice as an Akidoka and fellow martial artist would be to sit down with a piece of paper(and pen) and do an analysis. Consider all...
Get checked out by a doctor to give you the full ok then dive into it, is my advice. I was hopeless 2 months ago, I'd stopped training for about...
I'm male, I think that's pretty evident. In class there are usually between one and five female students, there are female instructors and...
I say Aikido (yoshinkan if you can get it in your area). With aikido general fitness is paramount, and the whole body is developed in proportion,...
in a word "relax"
While training is done on tatami mats, I've bowed off the mats (finished a class) more than once with mild concussion from having my head hit the...
in his profile : Tai Jitsu Instructor
imho a MA student should know better than to do stupid things like that. Regardless of the art they study :rolleyes:
I realise you have commitments to pay for, but I think yearly memberships is asking a bit much. A good part of your target audience is students...
"we're men (manly men) we're men in tiiiiiiiiights!"
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