Sorry for not posting any update here, as usual we have been busy teaching Aikido class 6 days a week. Finally today i have sometime to write something here. For the review back in 2012 is a fruitful year to us, we manage to have a few public demo, uprising of a few leaders to help in teaching and sharing Aikido around here. HQ dojo have more painting as display etc.
In the year 2012, some of the students leave us, due to study, due to work, maybe some ideals different, or maybe we understand Aikido differently, eventually new comer don't stand with us long, but is already very normal to me :) Hopefully the numbers of students we have, overall still manage to maintain the dojo operation, eventually my ideal of setting up an Aikido dojo is to share this wonderful piece of art to people around us, and of cause manage to cover the dojo rental etc, so everythings seen fine in 2012 and i'm happy about it, some of my students even manage to use the aikido application we teaches in their real life, some cause of falling and rolling that they train in the dojo, manage to save their life and body from injury during fall down on stairs, some manage to use it in their work for those doing enforcement job, some manage to use the ideal of harmony in their study and relationship :) So it always make me feel happy that what we teaches help other a lot. We manage to make more friends and i personally make more friends from our affiliated brother's dojo from Indonesia.
For the coming 2013............I hope that we have more senior belt going for 3rd kyu and above this year, the moving of our new HQ will be done after Lunar Chinese New Year, the dream of us having a permanent own dojo is coming to be come true soon and i'm very happy with what i have done. As i always feel is not the money we put in, a permanent dojo is a place i hope that all our friends, students, members can have a place we call home. That is why i always practise a group dojo cleaning session at the last day of the month where everyone, not matter what races, what level of grade you are in Aikido, the rich or the poor, we will do it together once a month as a family. Of cause i hope this year we can a few public demo again to share Aikido around with us, hope we have more new students, hope to have more leaders, and of cause i hope that old members can come back to train with us once awhile.
People always say we are busy with our works, family, study, etc. But i believe that time for training can be done, it's just up to you, yourself to give in the time to train or not to train, once a week for only 1-1.5 hour, the mind power and focus is what we always need in training, if you are willing to let your mind to train, relax and focus, give yourself 1.5 hour to train, is not for me, but for your mind, body, spirit.
For here i end my writing, wishing you, whoever you are reading these will have a wonderful 2013, always remember, mind, body, spirit, harmony and peace is what we doing in training and learning :) is not the skill, is not the lock, is not the slam, is not the throw. Your skill will come, your throw will have flow and ki, your lock will be solid, firm and stable, once you understand (Mind, Body, Spirit, Harmony and Peace)
Best Regard,
Bryan Loi
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