The article says “Tai chi (ty-CHEE’) combines meditation with slow, gentle movements, deep breathing and relaxation. It can improve muscle strength, balance, sleep, coordination and, some evidence suggests, fibromyalgia.”

The principles between Aikido and Tai- Chi are very similar could the same be said for Aikido?

Please discuss in the comments section below

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A reminder – Satoh Shihan is conducting an all day seminar on Saturday.

Hope to see everyone there tomorrow.  Once again the schedule is as follow:
9:00  – 11:00 – Part one Satoh Seminar
11:00 – 12:30 – Brunch
12:30 – 6:00 – Part two of Satoh Seminar
7:00 -  ? – Dinner

For all you UFC fans – Steven Seagal Training Anderson Silva for the big UFC fight on Aug 7th…this should be interesting.

The video was kind of neat – its nice to know Seagal still has it – interesting training tips

Aside from the video getting strangely dark at the end – what did you notice.?  Comments?

In February Moe, and some of his students, went and visited the Shao-Lin Do Center LLC .   The folks at Shao-Lin Do Center were nice enough to give us permission to use the photos on our site.

Shao-Lin Do Center’s web-page can be found here

For those of you who didn’t know.  Google Books has put up issues from Black Belt Magazine.  From what I can tell they date back to 1962!  They don’t have the latest issues but it looks like it goes all the way up to 2004!

The really cool part?  It’s searchable!

You can Browse the magazines -HERE [...]

What is Aiki?

That’s a common question throughout our organization. The most common definition I’ve heard is “Aiki is blending with your attacker and redirecting their force against them in a non-confrontational way”. OK, that’s all well and good but what does that actually mean?

I’ve asked that many times. The common [...]

These are pictures of the 2010 May at the Mojo seminar.

Satoh Shihan will visit the Ohio dojo the week following the National Tournament in Campbell, CA.  If you couldn’t make it to see him there, this will be a great opportunity to do so. We will visit several Ohio dojo during the week and Satoh Shihan will teach a seminar on Saturday, August, 14.  The [...]

Just this Aikido is proud to introduce our new website!  This will be a constantly changing and evolving site.  We’ve come a long way in a short time period of time and we have a lot more stuff to come that’s still in the planning phase – so please be patient.  If you would like [...]

This month we are going to look at “What is aiki?”

Sensi Stevens will address that question next Monday.

Some of the other students here have agreed to give their thoughts on the subject and will be updating the site with their thoughts when we send them in.

In the meantime, tell us what your thoughts [...]