207aikido

01/21/2023

It's been a while. I finally wrote another thing.

This is a post about how we might optimse our thinking to improve our aikido. In the spirit of the post though, I am going to start off by putting it in context. Most of this post was drafted in th…

07/16/2020

https://207aikido.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/local-maxima-and-pandemic-study-the-hard-way/

I have memories of false summits from early hiking trips – the feeling of excitement as clear blue sky opened up ahead, the disappointment of clearing the crest of the hill and finding more s…

08/03/2018

https://207aikido.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/forget-your-hands-america/

A few quick thoughts from nationals: The nice thing about participating in a sport in a small enough niche is that when you attend a national tournament you are liable to come back with several med…

03/13/2017

10/04/2016

https://youtu.be/0H2YAMOr7ss

Back before I ever took my first aikido class I watched every Jackie Chan movie I could get my hands on, and wandered around school with a nalgene always in ...

10/02/2016

Back in high school, before I had taken any aikido, I watched every Jackie Chan movie I could get my hands on and invented a fake water-bottle flipping martial art (which consisted of exactly one useless trick). Well, it seems the time has come to get back on the horse. Prepare for an important video this week. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/29/bottle-flipping-becames-rage-with-middle-schoolers/1INRaYEj9dQILseR5cgVUK/story.html

09/07/2016

https://207aikido.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/random-tidbits-videos-and-what-to-do-as-uke/

A few tidbits and musings from recent-ish aikido wanderings: Shibata sensei videos For some reason the first week of August was very popular in a number of my orbits and I was quadruple-booked: a w…

08/09/2016

Thank you Raymond Crowell!

08/09/2016

https://207aikido.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/success-as-a-secondary-reward/

If you’ve been arguing that winning should not be a primary focus in aikido competition, what should you say if you win? Join me as I try to work that out… I never met Keith Benedix. Th…

08/07/2016

https://youtu.be/svFP96t2E7M

I mostly had to prepare for my last two tournaments by myself. Here are some of the drills which I practiced with the help of an app.

08/03/2016

https://youtu.be/mZFjh14f4Xs

There will no doubt be more footage to come from the TAA Nationals at UNC, but I wanted to post this first because it was definitely one of the big highlight...