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08-01-2013, 06:51 AM
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Dojo: Aikido of Madison
Location: Madison, Wiscosin
Join Date: Jul 2013
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
A newbie to Aikiweb here.
"Gryka's life was violent, dangerous and would be short by human standards even if she lived to her full potential lifespan - but it was, as far as I could tell, completely free of self-doubt . . . Hazrah nachti, I thought. I wished humans could find that center, and realized I'd settle for finding it myself, because even that was more than mot of us ever accomplished in our lifetimes."
"Sometimes the truth is so perfect that it leaves you speechless, simply because there is nothing to be added or subtracted, nothing to do but admire its terrible beauty even as it rips out your still beating heart and sterilizes the bleeding cavity."
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08-02-2013, 10:00 AM
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Dojo: Roswell Budokan, Kyushinkan (AWA)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 74
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
It's a toss up between:
Hips don't lie (Shakira)
I'd agree with you (if you were right)
and
Even a blind squirell occasionally finds a nut
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08-03-2013, 12:57 PM
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Location: Orlando, FL
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,502
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
A "not to be named" instructor once told me:
"You SUCK today... Come back tomorrow."
Realistic, truthful, yet hopeful for the future. I have never forgotten it.
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08-04-2013, 03:07 AM
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Dojo: Greenock
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." ~ Bruce Lee
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08-04-2013, 05:18 AM
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#30
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Location: swansea wales
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 250
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
Sensei, the day I stop shouting at you is the day I stop caring
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08-04-2013, 08:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 909
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
"Little finger--most important!"-- Shibata Sensei
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MM
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08-07-2013, 07:41 AM
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Location: Massachusetts
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,202
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
Here's one from my sensei, from a particularly difficult class last week: "What you're after is very close to chaos." I think I understand intuitively what he meant (especially from the context), but damned if I can explain it. Very close to chaos...but not chaos at all.
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08-07-2013, 09:39 AM
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Dojo: Aikido Sangenkai
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 3,313
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
Quote:
Maggie Schill wrote:
"Little finger--most important!"-- Shibata Sensei
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In Japan, when you hold up your little finger you're referring to a girlfriend or other female lover.
Best,
Chris
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08-09-2013, 07:03 AM
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Location: Orlando, FL
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,502
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Re: Quotes that inform your training...
Quote:
Christopher Li wrote:
In Japan, when you hold up your little finger you're referring to a girlfriend or other female lover.
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...or perhaps both...
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