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The pedagogical requirement of daily training in Budo was precisely that: a pedagogical requirement. It was not a coincidental byproduct...

Introduction: I was asked the following question by an online fellow-walker of The Path: “Can you share any thoughts or ideas concerning...

Let me re-point out that from the point of view of the premodern wisdom traditions, Nietzsche's Will to Power is understood as only one...

I hold there are two reasons why Nietzsche is important to Aikido practitioners. First, there is the implied assumption underlying all of...

There is a history to Aikido. It is an institutional one, a structural one, an epistemic one, a cultural one. It is a history that...

In order to perform Takemusu Aiki, there are three aspects that must be attained: There is the spiritual aspect - skill in deconstructing...

I think if you can only imagine Aikido as its Kihon Waza you are really limiting yourself. It’s not just that you’re limiting your...

I agree and acknowledge that there is a literary reference and an oral tradition connected to the Founder in initiating Ikkyo by not...

<Transciption Starts Here> "Aikido is, in a sense, very fragile. It can be forgotten, it can be destroyed, it can be diluted by ignorance...

<Transcription Starts Here> • Aikido is a Budo. • A Budo is a Technology of the Self whose cultural history is East Asian in origin. • A...

Contemporary Aikidoka often comes to understand Kuzushi as “Uke bending over or no longer standing straight.” Yet, there are plenty of...

It is seldom talked about, but much of Aikido’s contemporary woes, in particular its widespread martial ineffectiveness and the identity...

What has come to pass for “Aikido history” today is a sham.  It seems that all one needs to be considered a historian or a researcher of...

I think beyond martial considerations, there remain questions that should be asked of the so-called shihan and higher ranks, one long one...

Movement that has you moving the hand from one side of the body to the other side of the body and does so outside of the inward or...

Today’s Aikidoka cannot recognize “big guy” technique, technique that functions only through a choreographed Uke and/or through a...

There is a roar to silence.  The birds sing to it, and when they do the silence sings through the birds.  Behind all movement, there is a...

The imagination is often used to point the inexperienced, that is to say, “the person who has had not experientially felt the given...

There are what can be called problematic key concepts in Aikido ukemi, concepts that have only recently become key. These are concepts...

The art of Aikido is grounded firmly within both the particular cultural context of Budo and also within the larger historical context of...