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01-05-2006, 03:44 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Center of South Texas
Location: Houston,Tx
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
One of the quotes that I like from the late Bill Sosa Sensei was: "Be yourself - don't pretend to be something that you are not".
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01-05-2006, 05:51 PM
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Location: Orlando, FL
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
Quote:
Joe Cavazos wrote:
One of the quotes that I like from the late Bill Sosa Sensei was: "Be yourself - don't pretend to be something that you are not".
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Good advice in any situation...
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01-06-2006, 10:52 AM
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#53
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Dojo: Aikibudo Seishinkan
Location: FORT WAYNE, IN
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Go practice"
This advice comes regularly, especially when I think I accomplished something and even when I have. The "advice" is usually prefixed with "That's nice".
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Jim Mc Coy
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01-17-2006, 02:48 AM
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Dojo: Seibukan, Milton Keynes
Location: At Work unless I am at the DOJO!
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Don't apologise, just get it right next time." He wasn't being serious (I hope), he wanted to see if I would post it!
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01-17-2006, 02:58 AM
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Dojo: Seibukan, Milton Keynes
Location: At Work unless I am at the DOJO!
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
or was it perfect?
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02-15-2006, 01:05 PM
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#56
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Don't just stand there--Do something! "
"Thou shalt finish with thy back heel on the mat."
"Get the hell out of the way!"
"Don't apologize."
"Imagine that you're spraying water out of your fingers, like a fire-hose."
There's more, of course, but those are the ones that come to mind.
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02-15-2006, 01:26 PM
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#57
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Dojo: Doshinkan dojo in Roxborough, Pa
Location: Phila. Pa
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Thou shalt finish with thy back heel on the mat."
I just got reminded about that one on saturday. Darn hamstrings!
Best,
Ron
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Ron Tisdale
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"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind."
St. Bonaventure (ca. 1221-1274)
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02-15-2006, 02:12 PM
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#58
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Dojo: Aikido Downtown
Location: Rhode Island
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
Glenn Webber Sensei once told me,"I do aikido like I play pool, I never make things harder than they have to be" that has alwasy stuck with me
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Dan Hulley
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02-15-2006, 03:31 PM
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Dojo: Nashville Aikikai
Location: Nashville, Tn
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
If we keep training one day we'll figure it out.
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Harmony does not mean that there are no conflicts,
for the dynamic spiral of existence embraces both extremes.
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02-15-2006, 03:58 PM
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Location: Edinburgh
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"get the F$@k up, NOW"
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02-15-2006, 08:21 PM
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Dojo: The School of Two Styles
Location: Ohio
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
The best single peice of advise I have ever gotten was from my personaly friend/mentor Sifu Regedanz. It was given to me durring a rough time in my life when I began to question almost all around me and became very confused.
"You must be stronger than your Chi or feelings to have good control of them. Now is the time to build it. Once you harness or control the negetive Chi, it will be a whole new thing to you. It can't be explained but it will be like you are living fot the first time or starting life over. Then you can do with out trying, See without looking, Hear without listening, and know how the outcome will be before it gets there. It will all come, just keep practicing. Remember one must live within the relm of the art, this is when it becomes Instinct."
This advise spoke wonders to me, and really helped me alot not only with life, but to my suprise it became the biggest impact to my Martial skills than anything else. I finally started to undertand what made my Sifu different than anyone I had ever met before. "PEACE"
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"When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding." -- Caine
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02-15-2006, 09:20 PM
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#62
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Dojo: Lower Providence Aikido
Location: Way too far East to suit me...
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
I'm fairly new to Aikido, but somehow the advice an old fencing master of mine gave me when I was a kid seems applicable to any MA...
Rule #1: Don't get hit.
Rule #2: Don't miss!
Everything else is just details.
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02-16-2006, 01:21 AM
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Location: TX
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Just show up"
and
"Irimi"
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02-16-2006, 11:53 AM
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Dojo: Ryokukai
Location: Michigan
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
I had somehow slightly injured myself in class and was rubbing my leg and he said to me, "budo wa iitai desu" and then he laughed and went to show the next technique. This literally means, "martial arts is pain" ...... so get over it and keep training. You could also take it to mean nothing worth having is ever easy.
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Nathan Snow
Michigan
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02-16-2006, 02:43 PM
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#65
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Dojo: Aikido of Harvard (IL)
Location: harvard, IL
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
'Move or Be Hit -- It's Your Choice!'
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A little danger is a knowledge thing...
"Helping the planet make an impact on people, since 1985"
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02-16-2006, 06:20 PM
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Dojo: Dartington
Location: Devon
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Don't live to practice Aikido, practice Aikido to live!"
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Success is having what you want. Happiness is wanting what you have.
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02-17-2006, 06:36 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
Keep swimming.
Last edited by Paul D. Smith : 02-17-2006 at 06:44 AM.
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02-17-2006, 06:54 AM
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Dojo: Midwest Center For Movement & Aikido Bukou Dojos
Location: Hudson, WI
Join Date: Jul 2000
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
Relax! You are constipating your ki.
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Mike Ellefson
Midwest Center
For Movement &
Aikido Bukou
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02-17-2006, 08:34 AM
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Dojo: Aikido in Savannah
Location: Savannah, GA
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
Best advice received-
1- Whatetever you're doing, if the technique doesn't work. . .keep moving!!
2- Don't muscle your way through, try polishing your technique instead.
3- Be respectful of the sempai/kohai relationship
4- Breathe!!
5- A good kiai will focus your practice
6- Get out of the way, don't get hit!!
7- Be realistic in your atemi
8- Respect your practice partners
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02-17-2006, 11:02 AM
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Dojo: Aikido West Reading
Location: Reading, Pa
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
"Relax, you'll live longer."
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02-17-2006, 11:21 AM
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Dojo: St. george
Location: new Brunswick
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
My favorite quote, ``god damn it, protect yourselfs, the mats wont do it for you``.
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02-21-2006, 03:26 PM
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Dojo: Nishin Kan
Location: Herzliya
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
My instructor says that one should not turn his face away from nage when recieving a technique and nage shouldn't focus her eyes on her hands when doing a technique.
And also, don't just stop the technique if you feel like you're doing something wrong.
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02-22-2006, 07:10 AM
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Dojo: White Rose Aikido - Durham University
Location: Gateshead
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
'If it doesnt work, hit them.'
True story.
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They're all screaming about the rock n roll, but I would say that it's getting old. - REFUSED.
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02-22-2006, 08:46 AM
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Dojo: Ryokukai
Location: Michigan
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
A Martial Art Always Pain Don_worry Don_worry
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Fanar F. Danial
international Ryokukai
Sterling hieghts Mi.
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02-27-2006, 07:50 AM
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#75
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Dojo: Kaiso Dobun Kenkyukai
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: Best Advice Your Sensei Ever Gave
I might be paraphrasing a little but it was something along the lines of "Don't bother coming back".
Really.
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True mastery can be gained
by letting things go their own way.
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching, Ch48
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