http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/ A Birankai International Aikido Dojo Sat, 19 May 2012 03:54:35 -0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss/ XOOPS Enso: BCA Journal buckscountyaikido at gmail dot com buckscountyaikido at gmail dot com en http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/images/logo.gif http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/ 144 85 http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.106/enso-issue-10---now-available-online.html The latest issue of Bucks County Aikido Journal "Enso" is now available online. Click here to download. Sat, 12 May 2012 10:51:53 -0000 http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.106/enso-issue-10---now-available-online.html http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.95/my-path-to-aikido-and-zazen.html lStudy the teaching of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, and unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragant, and elegant.r Morihei Ueshiba Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:30:00 -0000 http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.95/my-path-to-aikido-and-zazen.html http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.96/my-month-as-uchi-deshi.html (Guest post by Greg Regan) My journey in Aikido started in college. It was the fall of 2003 and my friend had just started taking classes and talked about it incessantly. One night, in the middle of a quiet suburban street, I asked him to put his money where his mouth was and show me something. He said, lGrab my wrist,r and so I did. Next thing I knew I was bent over backwards and about to be thrown down on the pavement. I would later recognize this as Shihonage. By January of 2004 I began to attend classes 5 days a week and could not stop thinking about it. At work, while on the phone in my cubicle, I would stand up and go through the motions of different techniques. I was certifiably crazy about Aikido. This condition has persisted and I believe there is no cure. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:40:00 -0000 http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.96/my-month-as-uchi-deshi.html http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.94/taking-off-the-fear.html I have been struggling with one problem, which is the essential reason for my daily Aikido practice, since I started my Aikido journey one year ago. Those old views are still very clear just like yesterday: I was so stiff that my partner could not finish up the technique, I was very nervous when I was rolling and even got an injury from a forward roll, I denied taking break falls and always lost the Ki connection from my partner. I was really confused and suffering during that period. lAikido is martial art, donrt think about it when you are lost, just do it with your body,r said by Lyons sensei, repeated in my mind. So I just grabbed this only correct thing: stick with daily practice. Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:30:00 -0000 http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.94/taking-off-the-fear.html http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.93/thunder-road-to-harmony.html I tried iaido for the first time by throwing myself headfirst into a seminar. The experience was exactly as I expected - frustrating. But I wasnrt surprised. For those whorve trained with me, it shouldnrt come as a surprise to you that from the first time I held a bokken in college I felt uncomfortable. I donrt know what it is about holding a weapon, but something changes. Itrs difficult enough to bring my aikido to life, let alone extending it into a wooden stick. Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:30:00 -0000 http://www.buckscountyaikido.com/aikido-blog.item.93/thunder-road-to-harmony.html