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 | Process vs result oriented
Posted on Mar 17, '12 10:02 PM for everyone
"This issue comes up many times in budo training, so much so it becomes a cliché. But the discussion is valid, especially in this modern day, when the fast paced world of business s..."
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| Forging oneself - 体操, 体得
Posted on Mar 15, '12 11:32 AM for everyone
"Using the analogy of forging a sword for martial arts practitioner must be cliche and tiring by now, but I keep finding this analogy more and more relevant with years of practicing..."
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| Hidden in plain sight? Understanding through terminologies
Posted on Mar 8, '12 8:15 AM for everyone
"For those of you who have read my blogs, you will see that I like taking apart terminologies and taking an erudite approach into understanding it. The reason I like doing this is b..."
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| Getting back to basics - 稽古
Posted on Feb 27, '12 9:42 AM for everyone
"In the journey of looking for advancing myself in training, I always end up going back to the basics. Sometimes I think that the secret lies somewhere else while it has been there ..."
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 | Reverse Engineering The Way
Posted on Oct 18, '11 5:35 PM for everyone
"古人の跡を求めず、 古人の求めたるの所を求めよ。 (Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.) - Basho I came across this on FaceBook from Nick Ushin Lowry. It's a saying that..."
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| What does martial training mean to you?
Posted on Oct 7, '11 7:20 AM for everyone
"I've been in many discussions on the effectiveness of this and that art... It was fun to get into these kind of discussions... But after a decade or so, it gets tiring real fast. A..."
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| Dystopian Society
Posted on Jun 9, '11 7:50 AM for everyone
"I've just learned a new word yesterday, "dystopia"... You could look it up in the net what it means, but basically it's like Utopia but with a catch, you lose certain freedom. You ..."
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| Martial Arts, ideas, and philosophies
Posted on Jul 29, '10 11:01 AM for everyone
"You start with an idea, very simple idea, generalize it, making it subtle, and then let it grow and it will be one's own... You may have heard of that idea or concept, especially i..."
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| Aikido is a concept
Posted on May 22, '10 12:38 PM for everyone
"Aikido is a concept, an idea, a philosophy, by itself it has no actual form. It’s like air, you breathe it, you know it’s there, but you can’t see it or grasp it. When you put it i..."
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 | A voice... 声
Posted on Nov 14, '09 11:29 AM for everyone
"I am writing this blog because lately... well more often than not, I get misunderstood for my goodwill. Why? It's mostly because of what I write and how I wrote it... I work in an ..."
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| Choices
Posted on Sep 27, '09 9:39 AM for everyone
"There will always be choices One just decides to limit or even eliminate the other choices Even a cornered mouse will fight back and will even be stronger that it will ever be Thou..."
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| Analogy of The Point and The Line
Posted on Sep 19, '09 10:25 PM for everyone
"We have heard training methods in budo (武道) that uses visualization such as one point (臍下の一点), focus power (集中力), and extend Ki (気を出す). When you are visualizing "focus power" or "e..."
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| No enemy - 無敵 (muteki)
Posted on Apr 4, '09 4:22 AM for everyone
"In the martial arts world, 無敵 (muteki) is often translated to 'invincible' or 'unbeatable'... The reason for this is because it is written using the kanji for 'nothing' which is 無 ..."
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| Preparing for death... preparing for life...
Posted on Mar 27, '09 10:56 PM for everyone
"People misunderstands me when I start talking about death... many thinks that is a dark and dismal thought... The concept of death in the eastern culture is not as dark and dismal ..."
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| Mindset Training
Posted on Dec 21, '08 9:58 AM for everyone
"One Mind - Any Weapon. I first heard this when I stumble upon The International Hoplology Society. It basically means that whatever you do will basically be the same in principle, ..."
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 | Spiral - 渦巻 (uzumaki)
Posted on Nov 22, '08 11:42 PM for everyone
"A spiral is one of nature's great phenomenon. You see it happening when the water drains out, a twister, a storm... From a galaxy to a nautilus' shell you could see the natural spi..."
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| Imitation
Posted on Nov 21, '08 11:50 PM for everyone
"The tradition of all budo (武道 - martial arts/way) start with imitation. When you study the arts, first you imitate the movements of your teacher or senior. Then, once you somewhat ..."
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| Dimensions
Posted on Nov 20, '08 11:42 AM for everyone
"Imagine this... A three dimensional cube, seen from a two dimensional world, from one side, it looks like a square... a sphere looks like a circle... and so on... A two dimensional..."
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| Immovable (不動)
Posted on Nov 2, '08 6:28 PM for everyone
"I've mentioned somewhere in my journal about 不動姿勢 (fudou'shisei - immovable posture/body) and 不動心 (fudou'shin - immovable mind/spirit/heart). In 氣の研究会 (ki-no-kenkyukai) system, the..."
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| Challenging Paradigms
Posted on Sep 14, '08 5:13 PM for everyone
"Before we move on, let's see what Wikipedia has to say about "paradigm" "The word paradigm (Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigma),composite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show", as a ..."
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