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SELLING AIKIDO

Aikido is a consumer good. If we want the art to continue, not only must we make it relevant, but also we need to capture market share. That requires sales. As soon as I hear sales, I hear John Cusack in Say Anything. But the reality is, Aikido has to be sold. Which means you have to createContinue reading “SELLING AIKIDO”

ENTRIES

Closing Skills as described in an earlier post challenges the idea that Aikido is a defensive art. Aikido is not a defensive art because you cannot prevail by defending. Rather we use ABD to place the aggressor in a disadvantageous position – we draw the attack so as to be ahead of the aggressor’s OODA loop. What weContinue reading “ENTRIES”

DO WHAT DOES NOT COME EASY

Read through these posts and a recurring theme, a lietmotiv, should emerge: what is the most effective way to teach, and the corollary, how do we learn? There are numerous rules of learning. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the metric that it takes 10,000 hours to perfect a skill in Outliers (2011). That magic number implies a hugeContinue reading “DO WHAT DOES NOT COME EASY”