Chairman’s Corner – September 2017
Dear Friends, The WSAF2017 World Aikido Championship in London was fabulously hosted by our friends at the British Aikido Association, in a great fRead More…
Month: September 2017
Losing Is Better than Winning
I firmly believe that losing an aikido shiai (tournament match) is far better than winning. Aikido is full of paradoxes. And they especially surfRead More…
Professor Tomiki’s Radical Notion
Over the past month or so, I have been reflecting upon Tomiki Sensei’s work On Jujutsu and Modernization. This was one of Tomiki’s last works, comRead More…
Context In Evaluating Martial Arts
Everyone loves to talk about ‘practical martial arts’ and ‘real martial arts’ as if watching a video from their living room makes them an expeRead More…