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Martial arts are exactly what they sound like, they are ‘arts’ of a ‘martial’ nature. They can be a hobby, a form of exercise and health maintenance, a beautiful system of movement, like ballet or jazz dance, an approach to meditation, a ‘moving Zen’. What they are not is self defense! This is not to […]
Archivos del Autor: Brent Hire
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Chopping wood and carrying water…… This section will be more personal and definitely less technical. That, of course, depends upon pre or post-industrial revolution views about what “technical” means, or the views of Newtonian physics versus “strangeness” strings. Up to this point we have looked at the outer edges of stillness, likened to the analogy […]
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Rotating in Spirals All aikido utilises the six directions, the four horizontal compass points, and heaven and earth (gravity and rebound). Without heaven and earth there are only circles, but, as previously indicated, up/down energy may be external, internal or internal moving in space. When a step forward or back is taken there is a […]