We had another great weekend long seminar from our Sensei. We had a full mat both Saturday and Sunday including visitors from our Webster program, Eastern Sky Aikido in Fairport, as well as from Kokikai Ithaca, MIT, Boston, and Garden State, NJ dojos. Thank you to everyone who chipped in and made his visit a great success.
Sensei Maruyama visits the United States from his home dojo in Nagoya three times every year. The Rochester dojo is extremely fortunate to be on the short list of stops during his summer trip. It is exciting to see the subtle power demonstrated by Sensei and how his techniques becomes more and more efficient and powerful every year. Sensei's awareness of his body and state of mind allow him to effortlessly cause people more than twice his size to crumble. He is constant proof that brawn is not the answer and validates the entire construct of self defense. He shows how smaller, weaker people can easily defeat an attack from larger and stronger assailants.
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this was a great seminar. Sensei reinforced concepts and principles of Kokikai Aikido that I sometimes forget or take for granted. small, subtle movements or unnecessary movements can make a big difference.
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