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Payet sensei raised his eyes from his meal as I entered the kitchen. He studied my troubledexpression for a moment, […]

I didn’t find David’s words as amusing as he did. But they did cause the idea to arise thatperhaps, just

Discontent took hold of me near the end of the senshusei course. The irony did not escape me.I felt lost,

The instructors sat on the mats in two parallel lines. Each instructor faced a counterpart on theopposite line, watching him

During my Senshushi course, which was the last course to mix foreigner students with the riotpolice, there were only three

The top sensei at the Yoshinkan Aikido Hombu Dojo kept personal uke for their demonstrations.They would elect their uke from

Less than an hour after I spoke with Payet sensei he came into the Sho-Dojo and asked me tofollow him.“Where

Of all the instructors I trained with, Chino sensei proved to be my hardest challenge. Thebrutality in which he behaved

I had never heard of Master Gozo Shioda until the day I entered the Yoshinkan Aikido HombuDojo. In fact, I

In my early twenties, and to the protest of my parents, I flew to Japan with the dream of learningthe