color Kancho
Recently, I made a post on “color paintings of O-sensei.” Then, yesterday, influenced by Aikido Journal, I tried my hand at colorizing a photo of Donn Draeger. So, here’s the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Donn Draeger at Himeji Castle: “new” color video
I think I can make here a very small contribution to the study of history. I hesitate to say a coup, but I do find it a little exciting. I […]
Bring me my… pillow spear?
Recently, I wrote about Ueshiba’s spear misogi. In that post, I was not able to identify what a “swamp spear” was qua historical object. I am just now reading Amdur’s […]
shako ho 斜行法
Last year, when I was blogging about my kenshusei course at Mugenjuku, I posted on my AikiWeb blog about shako ho, an exercise we do at Mugenjuku to improve balance […]
color paintings of O-sensei
Recently, Aikido Journal’s Stanley Pranin had an old black and white photograph of Ueshiba colorized. One of the commenters at the journal asked if this meant there would be color […]
Bring me my spear: hacking the universe
I had a small revelation last night. I’m still frustrated, but at least my mind has been stimulated. One of the things that troubles me about aikido is that it […]
results of (L) knee MRI
Copy of an e-mail I sent to Chris Crampton: Dear Crampton-sensei, Here is an update on my knee following the MRI last Monday: The good news is that the MCL […]
first CouchSurfers
When I was traveling through Asia before coming to Japan, I learned about CouchSurfing and signed up. I wanted to try CouchSurfing all over SE Asia, which would have saved […]
What’s in Mocha?
If you answered chocolate, move to the back of the class. I was talking with some of my English students last night about their names. What would be a good […]
