Aikido of Alamo

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The Culture of Certainty A dojo-cho’s responsibility is not to have all the answers

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Everything Is Ikkyo Until It Isn’t Why Aikido techniques are descriptions, not destinations

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The Relationship Me pretending I understand physics

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I received some questions about who David Bohm is.
I won't pretend to fully understand his work, nor was that the point of my essay.
What motivated me to write was one of his ideas about fragmentation. Because we cannot fully comprehend the whole, we naturally divide reality into parts we can understand. Over time, we begin to mistake our understanding of the parts for an understanding of the whole.
This rings true for me in my experience of Aikido. The techniques we study are not the art itself. They are tools we use and names we give to recurring patterns that help us understand what is happening.
The art isn't found in ikkyo or iriminage.
The art is found in the "us" those techniques reveal.

Scott (@scott540994) I received some questions about who David Bohm is. I won't pretend to fully understand his work, nor was that the point of my essay. What motivated me to write was one of his ideas about fragmentation. Because we cannot fully comprehend the whole, we naturally divide reality into parts we can unders...

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Playing Dominoes The body learns before the mind understands.

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Seeing the Us Before It Exists The moment the opponent disappears

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Engraven Image This morning in class, I demonstrated Kaiten nage, and then we explored three other techniques sharing a similar initial attack and blend.

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Scott (@scott540994) https://aikidoofalamo.substack.com/p/bubba?r=3zsri6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web One of my favorite Jalal stories perfectly captures who he was. We were at the 11th Street dojo during a seminar with Kato Sensei. Jalal was training with a very senior Aikidoist from another dojo who...

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