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02-21-2003, 12:21 PM
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Advice to Your Beginner Self
Hi everyone,
If you could send a message back to yourself when you were first starting to train in aikido, what advice would you send back?
(Shamelessly stolen from Slashdot...)
-- Jun
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02-21-2003, 12:32 PM
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Location: livingston, scotland
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Relax, take your time, slow down for god's sake.
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02-21-2003, 12:35 PM
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Dojo: Baltimore Aikido
Location: Maryland
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don't go to class the night you're going to separate your shoulder!
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02-21-2003, 12:40 PM
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Dojo: Vestfyn Aikikai Denmark
Location: Vissenbjerg
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... put a lot more effort into getting to know that girl you meet at the first seminar..
And now to something more serious: Don't expect to much in a short time, and don't give up when you loose your patience.
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- Jřrgen Jakob Friis
Inspiration - Aspiration - Perspiration
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02-21-2003, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Don't quit.
I guess mine got through. Yay !
Last edited by shihonage : 02-21-2003 at 01:12 PM.
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02-21-2003, 01:26 PM
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Care a little bit less. Aikido is not the most important thing in your life...
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02-21-2003, 01:30 PM
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Dojo: Independent
Location: Maracaibo/Zulia
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Forget about the hands , look at the feet.....
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"Perfection is a Process"
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02-21-2003, 02:11 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Midland
Location: Midland, Texas
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"What took you so long to get here? Now get to work and don't take so long this time!"
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02-21-2003, 02:19 PM
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Dojo: Federación Mexicana de Aikido
Location: Mexico City
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...you´ll be fine.
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02-21-2003, 02:26 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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..stay away from aikido message boards!
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Alfonso Adriasola
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02-21-2003, 02:43 PM
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Dojo: Koshinkai Leeuwarden
Location: Leeuwarden
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Enjoy and train
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02-21-2003, 04:50 PM
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Dojo: Sheffield Shodokan Dojo
Location: Sheffield, UK
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Do you mind if I cheat a bit?
I'd like to go back a few years before I eventually took up Aikido, and just tell myself to get into the dojo and make a start.
Sean
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02-21-2003, 08:03 PM
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Dojo: UW-La Crosse Aikido
Location: La Crosse, WI
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...don't worry, it will make sense in just 40 or 50 years.
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02-21-2003, 08:09 PM
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Dojo: UW-La Crosse Aikido
Location: La Crosse, WI
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...hopefully.
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02-21-2003, 09:08 PM
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Dojo: Independent
Location: Maracaibo/Zulia
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*Off Topic*
did it make sense Eric??
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"Perfection is a Process"
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02-22-2003, 10:29 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Shugenkai
Location: Colorado
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~~Take it all in and allow it to act on you/change you. You were drawn here because this is exactly where you are supposed to be right now. And that extreme roll-out you successfully completed 11 times..? Don't go for number 12! Remember I love you and enjoy yourself.
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~~Paula~~
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02-22-2003, 10:48 PM
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Dojo: UW-La Crosse Aikido
Location: La Crosse, WI
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Some things are starting to but there is a long way to go. I've only been in aikido for 13 years though.
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02-24-2003, 08:35 AM
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Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Join Date: Jun 2002
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wast no time
Go directly to Japan. Do not pass Go; do not collect $200.
Last edited by mike lee : 02-24-2003 at 08:37 AM.
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02-24-2003, 11:51 AM
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Dojo: University of Ulster, Coleriane
Location: Northern Ireland
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don't worry about not remembering techniques or names - you're teaching your body aikido, not your brain.
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---understanding aikido is understanding the training method---
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02-24-2003, 04:49 PM
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Dojo: Seiwa Dojo and Southside Dojo
Location: Battle Creek & Kalamazoo, MI
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Just keep showing up.
Bronson
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"A pacifist is not really a pacifist if he is unable to make a choice between violence and non-violence. A true pacifist is able to kill or maim in the blink of an eye, but at the moment of impending destruction of the enemy he chooses non-violence."
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02-24-2003, 05:50 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Shugenkai
Location: Colorado
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~~Good question, Jun. How 'bout you? Hmmm?
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~~Paula~~
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02-24-2003, 10:39 PM
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Me? I'd probably tell myself that there's no shame in outgrowing a dojo and that it's OK to find a more suitable environment for my own growth.
Also that an environment in which questioning, both verbally and physically, what I'm being taught and experiencing is an important process...
-- Jun
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02-24-2003, 11:44 PM
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Dojo: jiyushikan
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Dont eat beans before training.
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"The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice." - Tzu Lu
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02-26-2003, 07:55 PM
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Dojo: Aikikai Dobunkan/ Icho Ryu Aikijujutsu
Location: Indiana
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Mine would be something from before I started Aikido- "Don't do Muay Thai"
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02-27-2003, 08:43 AM
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Location: Florida Gulf coast
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Re: Advice to Your Beginner Self
Quote:
Jun Akiyama (akiy) wrote:
If you could send a message back to yourself when you were first starting to train in aikido, what advice would you send back? Jun
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"Empty"
Until again,
Lynn
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Lynn Seiser PhD
Yondan Aikido & FMA/JKD
We do not rise to the level of our expectations, but fall to the level of our training. Train well. KWATZ!
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