Top 5 Videos: #1: Iriminage - Reversing the turn - YouTube 1 Year Anniv Celebration!

As you may have already heard, I’m celebrating the 1 year anniversary of launching my YouTube channel by sharing my 5 most popular videos of the last 12 months.

Today’s video is the final video in this series. In other words, it’s THE most popular video on my channel over the last 12 months.

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Top 5 Videos: #2: Yamaguchi Sensei at Hachimangu - YouTube 1 Year Anniv Celebration!

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of launching my YouTube channel, I’m sharing my 5 most popular videos of the last 12 months.

Today’s video is number 2 on the Top 5 list. Over the next 5 weeks, I’ll be sharing all 5, one by one, finally ending with my number one most popular video of the last...

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Top 5 Videos: #3: Kokyunage, using shoto as pointer - YouTube 1 Year Anniv Celebration!

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of launching my YouTube channel, I’m sharing my 5 most popular videos of the last 12 months.

Today’s video is number 3 on the Top 5 list. Over the next 5 weeks, I’ll be sharing all 5, one by one, finally ending with my number one most popular video of the last...

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Top 5 Videos Since Launch: #4: Ikkyo w Shoto - YouTube 1 Year Anniv Celebration!

As I said last week, I’m celebrating the 1 year anniversary of launching my YouTube channel by sharing my 5 most popular videos of the last 12 months.

Today’s video is number 4 on the Top 5 list. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing all 5, one by one, finally ending with my number one most p...

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Top 5 Videos: #5: Koshinage - YouTube 1 Year Anniv Celebration!

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of launching my YouTube channel, I’m sharing my 5 most popular videos of the last 12 months.

Today’s video is the first in this series, so it’s number 5 on the list of my most popular videos. Over the next 5 weeks, I’ll be sharing all 5, one by one, finally en...

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VIDEO: AIKIDO: Shihonage - Ashi sabaki illustrated with bokken and wakizashi, Part 2

Do you find that you sometimes get locked down when you’re doing shihonage? That you can’t advance forward under uke’s arm?

Today’s video is Part 2 of the first of the highlights videos from our Aikido Summer Seminar in Los Angeles last month.

The class was right after lunch so I thought it mig...

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VIDEO: AIKIDO: Shihonage - Ashi sabaki illustrated with bokken and wakizashi, Part 1

Do you find that you sometimes get locked down when you’re doing shihonage? That you can’t advance forward under uke’s arm?

Today’s video is the first of the highlights videos from our Aikido Summer Seminar in Los Angeles last month.

The class was right after lunch so I thought it might be the ...

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WATCH: AIKIDO Tenchinage, Part 2 - Let the upper hand fall - DON'T PUSH

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Today’s video is a continuation of last week’s video, where we were doing a stretch, letting uke do a full backbend.

We noted in last week’s video th...

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WATCH: AIKIDO Tenchinage, Part 1 - Warm Ups (Back bend for uke and neck and shoulder stretch for nage)

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Do you find that your students don’t engage from their center as much as you would like when taking ukemi, but rather lead with their face so to speak?

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WATCH: AIKIDO Seminar structure to engage younger generations while keeping space for older practitioners

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Today’s video will be a little different from my others, in that I’m not showing how I do a certain technique. Instead, I’ll be showi...

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WATCH: AIKIDO Tenkai to Irimitenkan (With short sword and without)

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Do you sometimes get stuck doing Irimi Tenkan? Maybe your arm goes behind you and it’s hard to recover. Or maybe the initial entrance seems to be sticky?

Today’s...

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WATCH: AIKIDO 2-Person Attack SAFELY for beginners

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Do you have many chances to practice 2-person attack? Or is this left just for special classes or seminars?

Today’s video is another from our New Yea...

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