In Aikido training sometime we will say about, connection, reaction, focus, eye contact, ukemi etc, all these small repeating details that we always train is not just for the dojo only. Many always say Aikido in your daily life, which I've been trying to do and always remind my students to do. Sometime is not easy but I hope we can always keep that in mind.
An uke attacks but always try to maintain balance and contact, nage blends always connecting, extending etc. When we talk or do things, we must try to maintain this kind of relationship and ideals, sometime we are uke, sometime we are nage, sometime we need to be empty and just stay.
Aikido sometime involve a lot of thinking not just on technique but ideals of life. Quote from O-sensei
"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train." Morihei Ueshiba
Many reasons were involved when we chose someone to help out in the dojo, it doesn't mean that someone who is teaching must be very good in technique, maybe their characters are much better, maybe they are more friendly when they are teaching others, maybe they don't select which type of group or ages to teach. But those that always use to help out was less and less assign of helping also have reasons involve, maybe is time for the younger generation to train up, maybe your character and attitude changes.
We must remember we are not the best as we are learning always, if we have a mind thinking we are the best, harmony in dojo will be loss. Don't always use quote that "this Sensei say this, this Sensei do that" when classes are carrying out by other Instructors or leaders and your are in a viewer position, that shows no respect to the dojo, your friends and your teacher decision. Remember uke and nage relationship? Students that watch beside the class should only seat and look instead of walking into the mat, talking in front of the teacher for the day about what we feel is right or wrong, even if the teacher was a lower grade then you, much younger then you, or is you junior.
Mount Fuji is for everyone but if we keep picking fault about the ways and ideals people are doing and teaching in the class, we are putting barrier along the road for climbing up the mountain for both our junior and ourselves.
Hope we always will remember, when is the role of uke, the role of nage, the role of emptiness, changing of this 3 roles always in things we do and training, may everyone find our own harmony and peace in life :)
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Think before we react.....
In Aikido training sometime we will say about, connection, reaction, focus, eye contact, ukemi etc, all these small repeating details that we always train is not just for the dojo only. Many always say Aikido in your daily life, which I've been trying to do and always remind my students to do. Sometime is not easy but I hope we can always keep that in mind.
An uke attacks but always try to maintain balance and contact, nage blends always connecting, extending etc. When we talk or do things, we must try to maintain this kind of relationship and ideals, sometime we are uke, sometime we are nage, sometime we need to be empty and just stay.
Aikido sometime involve a lot of thinking not just on technique but ideals of life. Quote from O-sensei
"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train." Morihei Ueshiba
Many reasons were involved when we chose someone to help out in the dojo, it doesn't mean that someone who is teaching must be very good in technique, maybe their characters are much better, maybe they are more friendly when they are teaching others, maybe they don't select which type of group or ages to teach. But those that always use to help out was less and less assign of helping also have reasons involve, maybe is time for the younger generation to train up, maybe your character and attitude changes.
We must remember we are not the best as we are learning always, if we have a mind thinking we are the best, harmony in dojo will be loss. Don't always use quote that "this Sensei say this, this Sensei do that" when classes are carrying out by other Instructors or leaders and your are in a viewer position, that shows no respect to the dojo, your friends and your teacher decision. Remember uke and nage relationship? Students that watch beside the class should only seat and look instead of walking into the mat, talking in front of the teacher for the day about what we feel is right or wrong, even if the teacher was a lower grade then you, much younger then you, or is you junior.
Mount Fuji is for everyone but if we keep picking fault about the ways and ideals people are doing and teaching in the class, we are putting barrier along the road for climbing up the mountain for both our junior and ourselves.
Hope we always will remember, when is the role of uke, the role of nage, the role of emptiness, changing of this 3 roles always in things we do and training, may everyone find our own harmony and peace in life :)
An uke attacks but always try to maintain balance and contact, nage blends always connecting, extending etc. When we talk or do things, we must try to maintain this kind of relationship and ideals, sometime we are uke, sometime we are nage, sometime we need to be empty and just stay.
Aikido sometime involve a lot of thinking not just on technique but ideals of life. Quote from O-sensei
"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train." Morihei Ueshiba
Many reasons were involved when we chose someone to help out in the dojo, it doesn't mean that someone who is teaching must be very good in technique, maybe their characters are much better, maybe they are more friendly when they are teaching others, maybe they don't select which type of group or ages to teach. But those that always use to help out was less and less assign of helping also have reasons involve, maybe is time for the younger generation to train up, maybe your character and attitude changes.
We must remember we are not the best as we are learning always, if we have a mind thinking we are the best, harmony in dojo will be loss. Don't always use quote that "this Sensei say this, this Sensei do that" when classes are carrying out by other Instructors or leaders and your are in a viewer position, that shows no respect to the dojo, your friends and your teacher decision. Remember uke and nage relationship? Students that watch beside the class should only seat and look instead of walking into the mat, talking in front of the teacher for the day about what we feel is right or wrong, even if the teacher was a lower grade then you, much younger then you, or is you junior.
Mount Fuji is for everyone but if we keep picking fault about the ways and ideals people are doing and teaching in the class, we are putting barrier along the road for climbing up the mountain for both our junior and ourselves.
Hope we always will remember, when is the role of uke, the role of nage, the role of emptiness, changing of this 3 roles always in things we do and training, may everyone find our own harmony and peace in life :)
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Aikido Shodan Grading 2016
After 6 years since the set up of Hibana Bushidoo, we finally manage to have our own Shodan train from white belt all the way to Shodan. Our first 5 Shodan, can't imagine how many hundreds to thousands of classes they have attended. It prove them worth it for the 1 hour 45 min grading, non-stop grading with only 5-10 min break in between.
Many technique was tested, including freestyle of all hand catch, all strike, all catch from behind, all seating and standing attack, all weapon unarmed, with 3 attacker non stop attacking. Follow up by 40 push-up, doing 30 ukemi, folding hakama in 3 min. The mental need to be strong, and 3 of them are not feeling well that day, due to their strong mental i can say we make it. The most interesting part is ki extension, unbent-able arm by 2 person, not to be lift up by 2 person.
My teacher always say Shodan is just the beginning of learning Aikido, hope they will remember it always. The road is very long ahead for us here.
Many technique was tested, including freestyle of all hand catch, all strike, all catch from behind, all seating and standing attack, all weapon unarmed, with 3 attacker non stop attacking. Follow up by 40 push-up, doing 30 ukemi, folding hakama in 3 min. The mental need to be strong, and 3 of them are not feeling well that day, due to their strong mental i can say we make it. The most interesting part is ki extension, unbent-able arm by 2 person, not to be lift up by 2 person.
My teacher always say Shodan is just the beginning of learning Aikido, hope they will remember it always. The road is very long ahead for us here.
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
4th All Aikido Shinju-Kai Demonstration & Seminar
Is another year of All Aikido Shinju-kai Demonstration & Seminar, same as last year Hibana Bushidoo Aikido will be attending this event. Is always fun to go as a group, to train and learn together.
Special guest invited for this year Seminar is Sensei Bruno Gonzalez 6th Dan, for those that like to watch YouTube, I guess you should have come across Sensei Bruno Gonzalez Aikido clip. Is always nice to watch his movement. It will be a fruitful seminar for me and my students here. Of cause Shihan Philip Lee will be giving seminar also. Both well known Shihan and Sensei Seminar is a seminar we can't miss out.
The whole of the week we will be having exciting event, 20th September 2016 grading at Hibana Bushidoo HQ, finally our 1st batch of Shodan will be born in this grading after so many years of training and setting up. Follow up by 25th September Seminar by Shihan Philip Lee and Sensei Bruno Gonzalez, not to forget we have Aikido Shinju-kai Instructors Demonstration also. This year is my 2nd year of this demonstration, hope everything end up well for us.
Special guest invited for this year Seminar is Sensei Bruno Gonzalez 6th Dan, for those that like to watch YouTube, I guess you should have come across Sensei Bruno Gonzalez Aikido clip. Is always nice to watch his movement. It will be a fruitful seminar for me and my students here. Of cause Shihan Philip Lee will be giving seminar also. Both well known Shihan and Sensei Seminar is a seminar we can't miss out.
The whole of the week we will be having exciting event, 20th September 2016 grading at Hibana Bushidoo HQ, finally our 1st batch of Shodan will be born in this grading after so many years of training and setting up. Follow up by 25th September Seminar by Shihan Philip Lee and Sensei Bruno Gonzalez, not to forget we have Aikido Shinju-kai Instructors Demonstration also. This year is my 2nd year of this demonstration, hope everything end up well for us.
Don't worry we are still active :)
Sorry of the late update here, really very busy with my work and classes recently. Students have been telling me, "Teacher you should update your blog, if not people don't know we have Aikido classes here"
Yeah recently we are slowly down our steps :) To rest is a kind of training to me, but don't worry we are still here training and teaching. I'll update more information or activities next time when i'm free, Then again for the information update, we are still teaching in Taman Daya HQ, Mount Austin Transform Gym, Permas Jaya Sports Complex.
Yeah recently we are slowly down our steps :) To rest is a kind of training to me, but don't worry we are still here training and teaching. I'll update more information or activities next time when i'm free, Then again for the information update, we are still teaching in Taman Daya HQ, Mount Austin Transform Gym, Permas Jaya Sports Complex.
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