“Walking is martial arts” Morihei Ueshiba What this means is that no matter what sort of physique you have, you can do Aikido. Whether you are rigid or soft or thin or heavy set, you can do Aikido in your own way…
(Not for people with weak nerves or nervous in general) Sometimes when you watch a trailer, movie is looking quite interesting and you have inspiration to spend some 1.5 hours of your life for that. However, the further we go the more complicated…
Learn it, then forget about it Ueshiba Sensei’s way of teaching was quite different from the instructional methods used today. In those days, Sensei would first demonstrate the technique we were to practise, simply giving us an idea of the movements. By…
New Year, new plans. Brief trip plan Planned trip time: starting March and later Party: 8 persons (2 cars available, more cars can join) Distance to drive: > 3000 km Countries: Latvia-Lithuania-Estonia (-possibly Helsinki, Finland) Dynamics: calm and peaceful Trip expenses: average European expenses, including…
When you have only a half of day to see Berlin, what can you see?? Berlin wall (at least its remains https://goo.gl/maps/xcLjqqPLVT12) Checkpoint Charlie (https://goo.gl/maps/jZBR6i3d2sw) Potszdamer Platz (https://goo.gl/maps/yq2yLWsLmms) Rote Rathaus (https://goo.gl/maps/LKpZYJWEFLG2) That’s all we saw during F1 trip in 2015. But in…
Everything I knew about Dresden was that there is a Dresden Art Gallery, one of the most known galleries in the world. Now I know a bit more. Dresden is a city-picture. Really. A city when you photograph it results…
The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain.
I rarely read poems, but digging my historical notes, I’ve found this link to “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Gustave Doré: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/raven/ Overwhelming illustrations!!! For Simpson lovers – “The Raven” in their way: and the full text…
It’s always a pleasure to practice Aikido Yoshinkan, but it’s even more pleasant to train with the two of the best Aikido Yoshinkan Senseis in the world – Robert Mustard, 8th Dan, and Joe Thambu, 8th Dan. This time seminar took place…
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