Back from the seminar ...

A nice and great weekend training under Sato sensei and lots of friends. What did we learn this weekend. I won't go through the list of techniques. Although I can mention that we did empty hand techniques, bokken dori, jo awase, jo kagrame 1 and 2, jo kata 2, two nidan test. 

Yet, the most important thing that we learned is that no matter how long we have been doing aikido there's one place to which we need to come back again and again. And this place is the basics. Basics of movement. Basics of creating imbalance on uke and proper form. We don't need to re-invent the wheel about aikido. We don't need to look for secret or mysterious techniques. We just need to come again and again to the basics and all will be well.

mcr