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Entries for November, 2008

Aikido and Conflict: Turning Difficult Moments into Ki Moments

by Judy Ringer
One of the things that interests me most about conflict is the tendency to resist it and the ways in which this resistance causes me to miss a ki moment – a key moment, when I might respond with purpose and intention but do not. Resistance is a reactive habit. When I resist, [...]

Positive Aikido

by: Henry Ellis
Interview with Sensei Henry Ellis a pioneer of British Aikido from 1957.
Interview by Arthur Lockyear – Fighting Arts International – Issue 93
Where and when were you born, Henry? I was born in Yorkshire, in May 1936 in a little coal mining village called Brampton, near Rotherham. A place where you had to fight [...]