Every man, as he grows older, seeks some real or symbolic achievement with which to cap his career. If the calendar years have flown past the 80 mark, pushed upward to 85, you're going to check your personal record books that much more. Usually, when you take the profits and the losses and throw them into your own Mulligan Stew of life, you're hard put to get the ledger into the black.
Mori ...
Author: Andy Adams
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During the 25 years Robert Koga served as an LAPD officer and the 40 years he has taught self-defense to military and law-enforcement professionals, he’s learned what it takes to survive.
Ever since his first judo lesson at age 12 and his subsequent training under aikido legend Koichi Tohei, Koga has been obsessed with evaluating how well techniques work in real life. Over the years, his qu ...
Author: Sara Fogan
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Interview with
Sensei Derek Eastman. 5th Dan.
By David J Wilson E.S.T.A. secretary. - July 2003.
I have known Sensei Eastman for some 12 years and during those years I have heard so many stories about both Sensei Eastman and Sensei Ellis and their dedication to the early promotion of UK Aikido, some of the history highlights their hard training and appreciation o ...
Author: Derek Eastman Co-Author of the new book Positive Aikido
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Final Part Four:
Relocating and Leaving the HUT.
Q: DW.
Sensei, You told me earlier that this was around the time you got married and moved away from the HUT and the locality. Could you expand on this time.
A: SE. Yes, After I married I moved to Basingstoke in Hampshire.
My work involved a lot of traveling as I was working on the drilling rigs, drilling for Gas in ...
Author: Derek Eastman Co - Author new book Positive Aikido..
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Part Three:
Q-DW: With all the years of hard training and instruction going up through the kyu grades what was the final path to your first dan ?
A-SE: I was always fortunate that not only did I receive personal instruction and guidance directly from Sensei Williams and my own Sensei, and all the dan grades previously mentioned.
I also think that being assistant instructor to the ...
Author: Derek Eastman Co - Author of the new book Positive Aikido.
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Author: Matthew Temkin
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The End
Master Pan Qing Fu's students run towards him like lost puppies. "They were my family," he said. Sometimes he can't talk about them because the subject is so full of emotion. "I gave them e ...
Author: Dianne Naughton
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Is Aikido a Martial Art?
Sensei Henry Ellis - 2001
This article originally appeared in 3 parts on the Cyberkwoon website. It is here published in its entirety.
PART 1
At fi ...
Author: Henry Ellis
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Part Two.
Choreography
Aikidoists are often accused of practicing " Choreographed Aikido" and to be honest I must admit that these claims are very often justified, with Uke (attacker) p ...
Author: Henry Ellis
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"People here may belittle sports arts...."
Who?
Almost EVERY "combatives" man of any note CAME from a combative sports background. Boxing, wrestling, judo. WEF and O'Neill (SIXTH DAN-Ko ...
Author: Carl Cestari
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