Why Japanese Masters Move the Way They Do

I lived and trained in Japan for nearly a decade, and there is still something about the way senior Japanese instructors move that I have never seen fully replicated — not in seminars, not in videos, not even in very advanced Western practitioners. I have thought about this for years, and I wa...

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What I Learned Watching Japanese Aikido Teachers

Years of observing Japanese Aikido teachers revealed surprising lessons about timing, posture, zanshin, and why expert practitioners often seem to move less while accomplishing more.

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