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Aikido-Seminars with Shimizu Sensei (Founder of Tendoryu Aikido)
The announcements for the seminars with Shimizu Sensei are now available.
Pleasure through Efforts During Practice
A continuous practice not always makes pleasure. Therefore it is necessary to find some kind of wisdom scheme to ensure that the pleasure will not flag. The key for this is ‘Rei’ (manners, thankfulness).
In Aikido we repeat the same techniques over and over again. Naturally we become tired. What might be the reason? Talking to people for example we learn that they are delighted if something is interesting, and they become tired, if something is not interesting. Our interest fades away, if we get tired of something, and that is a condition where concentration fades away and the activity becomes a habit. Is not something else necessary to make sure that we do not fall into this trap?
Why I am Practicing Aikido / Rowing Together for the Joint Progress
Unfortunately I am not quite sure, who said the following words: „If we want to live in a peaceful world without bloodshed we have to make much more efforts than with bloodshed.”
Those words exactly reflect my Aikido principle.
Memoirs - The 40th Aniversary (1)
In October this year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Tendokan and the foundation of the NPO ‘Tendo World Aikido’ with a memorial seminar. Time has passed fast, and I became older accordingly.
Memories of Private Lessons
This year is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Tendokan. Kaleidoscopically memories of the Uchideshi period, with which I started my Aikido, pass through my head. In the year 1963 I entered the Aikido class under the supervision of the founder, Morihei Ueshiba, and I want to talk just a little bit about that period.
Tendo World Aikido
After sending in an application to the municipality of Tokyo the Tendokan now received the necessary certification for the foundation of the juridical corporation of a NPO (a special non-profit oriented juridical corporation) named ‘tendo world aikido’ (abbreviation: twa). Based upon voluntary activities this NPO (no-profit organization) provides public services; she is an organization with no commercial objectives, but the objectives is to develop with the Tendokan organizational activities to spread Aikido locally and abroad. Accordingly in the following we will provide you with a short outline.
Off Time No. 10
Today’s interview partner is Henry de La Trobe, who began with five years as a Tendokan pupil, and who since then studied Aikido already for 38 years intensively. His parents are German and Japanese, and Henry, who practiced Aikido at various places all over the world, presently works as the general manager of Electronic Arts, a company for TV games. “From Shimizu Sensei I learned to listen carefully to my heart” Henry tells us, and he explains detailed in what way he is able to make use of Aikido in his business as a general manager.