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Hi,

Manabu still practices Systema regularly with the Tokyo Systema group. He recently spent two weeks training with Vladimir in Toronto.

Charles Hill

Prof. Goldsbury,

As a non-Catholic, I would be very interested in what this means.

Thank you,
Charles Hill

Yikes! I hope this is an honest mistake! That's the women's change room! That wouldn't make a good first impression the first day, especially with the Doshu's office right around the corner. Go to...

Aikidojournal.com has an article stating M.Ueshiba received a Yagyu Shinkage ryu sword certification from S. Takeda in 1922. One rarely hears about what that might have been about.

Charles Hill

This is the kind of info I was looking for, thanks. I can't stand happoshu. It seems to make me feel sick in larger quantities as opposed to "real" beer. I'll check out my local Seibu.

Charles...

Hi,

My wife buys the beer and has suggested recently I need to start making my own due to the high cost. Does anyone here live in Japan and make their own beer? I need to know if I can buy the...

I highly second the Pimsluer suggestion. It will help you master pronuciation and a number of phrases/sentence structures which will give you the confidence to make it over the first few hurdles.
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I spent just over a year training with John Stevens in Sendai, several years ago. I was extremely impressed by him on all levels. I have never met a more kinder, open teacher than J.S. He helped...

I think that this is important. Many times people have written letters to ATM complaining about this and that. The editors' standard response is that they are limited to the articles that people...

Professor Goldsbury,

Could you explain why you think this translation is wrong? I understand that the concept comes from the Founder. If I am remembering correctly, there is a chapter about it...

With Ron's post and his homage to Stevens Sensei and then szczepan's response, I have to tell my John Stevens story.

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I think in terms of a chain metaphor to do techniques, but in a different way. You know how a chain is usually flexible unless you twist it and all the links become immovable? I look at uke's...

I was a bit surprised to find out a few years ago that there is such a thing as a Shinto funeral. A friend of mine's relative was a kannushi at a large shrine somewhere north of Tokyo. When he died...

Most of the posts here deal with details of imagined violence. It may be kind of realistic to do so in some unlikely way, but I can't help but feel a major point of Morihei Ueshiba's teaching is...