For summer vacation (and a *zero birthday) we spent a week on the Big Island, followed by a week on Kauai. The former was quite interesting: staying in the tatami room at the family-owned Manago Hotel, followed by a beautiful chalet in the rainforest outside Volcano park, and culminating with a day in Hilo and… Continue reading
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weldin’
…is, as I-Roy says, “a wha di young gyal wan,” but it should also come in handy elswhere too, I imagine. Practice, practice, today on the cutting torch…triple-ought nozzle and the steel’s like butter…
choreography
Recently there was an online discussion 1 about how “real” an aikido demonstration might have been 2, and/or how much might have been choreographed. That discussion was so fundamentally interesting that I wanted to archive the main posts here…
friendship
There are different flavors of aikido, usually representative of O-Sensei’s teaching at the time the branch fiirst sprouted from the tree. The early forms, such as Yoshinkai and Shodokan, and some of the later forms like Ki Aikido, have their own separate organizations. Yet even the main branch, the Aikikai Foundation (Aikido World Headquarters), has… Continue reading
chivalry
Sean’s become more and more interested in fencing ever since he took a few classes with Piedmont Park and Rec last summer. He’s now an enthusiastic student of Maestro Harold Hayes at the Pacific Fencing Club in Alameda. I enjoy going after work to admire Maestro Hayes’ teaching style, imagining how it might translate to… Continue reading
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