Category Archives: Aikido
Focusing on aikido
Today I notified my Pekiti-Tirsia Kali instructor that I’ll be taking an indefinite leave from studying PTK. I just don’t have enough time to study two martial arts and I want to concentrate on the aikido 1st dan test. I’ll … Continue reading
1st kyu Grade Test
Had my 1st kyu grade test two days. All in all, it went pretty well and I’m happy with how it went. Manderbacka was judging the test and she commented that it looked “nätti” (“pretty”), which… I’m not 100% sure … Continue reading
Frank Noël seminar: 30°
This was the first time I went to Frank Noël‘s seminar, even though he’s been coming every year during the time I’ve studied aikido. I’m just too lazy an aikido student to go to seminars that are held outside our … Continue reading
Martial no more
Had an… epiphany of sort. When I started studying aikido, and for quite a few years, I thought of it as a ‘martial art’. I thought of various aspects of self-defense, taking those into consideration when trying to understand the … Continue reading
Move as One
Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. Antoine de Saint Exupéry (For those of you who don’t speak French, that’s, love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking … Continue reading