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Life After Blackbelt
Here is a thoughtful article submitted by one of our newest blackbelts; Ben San, about what Blackbelt now means to him. ‘Life After Blackbelt’ by Ben Sen: Because I have reached the age of 25, and have now been a student of Aikido-Te for 1/5 of my life, I feel it’s now an approripate time […]
The Black Belt Seminar, by Sensei Kevin
When Richard San asked me if I’d like to submit a write up of the recent Wisewarrior Black Belt Seminar, I have to admit, I thought it would be easy. I’m convinced that it still should be easy though that conviction is rapidly fading – hence this sentence of filler whilst I struggle to convey […]
Fate or Karma?
This month in ‘The Lounge’ it nice to have a piece of writing from Roy San, who has been a student of ours for over 10 years, wether in health or in sickness (for he has been both) he always has lovely words to say. I left school and joined the Royal Engineers at the […]
‘Gentilesse’ and Aikido by Kohigh Matthew
Gentilesse Here we have a lovely piece of writing by Kohigh Matthew who shares here his passion for an ancient ideal that he has long been interested in and admired. Gentilesse is a concept originating in France nearly one thousand years ago. There is no equivalent concept in English, but its meaning heavily overlaps […]
Mark San; ‘The Martial Artist’
I have always thought that a Martial Artist must embody both the Martial, combative elements of his style, and also the Artistic side. We learn Martial discipline by standing on the line with our fellow students, by showing our Sensei and fellow travelers of ‘the Way’ proper respect and care-when they put their bodies on […]
Dohigh Lucy: “Flow and the martial arts”
Here is our next article for ‘The Lounge’, from another of our wonderful ‘Wisewarrior’ students! Dohigh Lucy talks here about her twin passions for science and the martial arts, and how they both connect in the dojo… I do not believe in chi, (ch’i, qi, spell it however you want). I do not believe that […]
Art of Kata Workshop, Dohigh Wills Jenkins…
More thought provoking ideas, this time from Dohigh Wills… How do you demonstrate you know something? How does a Sensei tell when you know a Kata (the patterns we learn in our tuition)? It’s all in the eyes…. we’ll come back to that. A hot stuffy dojo greeted us on Saturday afternoon, and whilst the […]
The Art of Kata By Dohigh Chris Lloyd
The Wisewarrior Art of Kata Workshop ran in May this year seemed an inspiration to many of our students, here are the thoughts of Dohigh Chris Lloyd a Green Belt in Aikido-Te… The art of Kata or … I fight my mind – although mostly it wins, sometimes I do. Reflections on a cracking […]
The Tor San Interview…
Tor San has been with us a long while so we thought it high time you all got to know him a little better… So Tor San, when did you first start training…? I began martial arts at the age of 7 with Judo, which was one of the big things to do back in […]
Welcome!
Welcome to ‘The Lounge’, this is where students or instructors of Wisewarrior will be invited to write articles and put up thoughts for all of us to read and enjoy. We will be having Sensei interviews or profiles, students can tell us about their training or about how maybe martial arts helps and informs other […]
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