You touched on something very important ....I started at 48 and in a foreign language and one of the things I figured out really quickly was my goal was each class. Each achievement was of great value and every success should be celebrated but more importantly every failure was another chance to look at it differently.... And that is something i now truly value to the extent that now even if we just do ikkyo for 3 or 4 months every time is my chance to try something different...so that it is my aikido.
I think if you are looking for an out. Age is your excuse. I have spoken with doctors who tell us that Aikido is very healthy to build our body and physical endurance and heart strength. Thus creating longer livelihood. ❤
When I started aikido I was 13/14, Osensei, was still alive,Aikido was one. Then his death changed everything and my training.I was very resilient. I could do rolls on the asphalt and did!:)lol Now at 71 no way!. I did a soft syle aikido 10 years ago and i am thinking of restarting for the summer.Will see how i do.Cardio is definitely down.
@@AikidoCenterLA Thank you. Your founder Sensei Furuya was one of my teacher when I was with San Fernando AikiKai before the great split. He was a great teacher. He and Sensei Kobayshi were my instructors before for years. Some years ago I had a dream about your sensei. I went to your dojo to thank him for helping me in my aikido & my life. . I asked someone where he was and i wanted to thank him. The person was a little surprised. He informed me Sensei Fuyura had died the day before. As I bowed and left, I quietly thank him.:)
20:51 - not teaching kids to break fall... I've never understood the logic behind this. When my kids started judo at ages 5 and 10, their sensei spent the first two months having them only do breakfall. No randori at all for those first two months. Just solid breakfall training, over and over and over again, until they became very proficient in breakfalling. If taught properly, why is this dangerous? Young kids that age, are learning much more complicated and dangerous things, such as gymnastics, and doing complex skateboarding tricks. In fact, my kids learning how to break fall in judo has saved them countless of times when one of them fell backwards out of a tree; tripped and fell down a long flight of stairs; went over the handle bars on their bicycle, falling off of their skateboards, etc. Learning breakfalling, and learning how to dissipate the force, even on asphalt and concrete, saved their skulls and saved them from losing a mouthful of teeth.
43:03 - so I don't understand where you're coming from and what's your position. First you say that young kids and 60 year olds should not learn to breakfall because it's too dangerous for them. Then here you talk about how your mind limits you, and you start to talk about how old people in Japan taking ukemi. You seem to be advocating for opposite things here, causing me to not know where you actually stand on these issues.
You touched on something very important ....I started at 48 and in a foreign language and one of the things I figured out really quickly was my goal was each class. Each achievement was of great value and every success should be celebrated but more importantly every failure was another chance to look at it differently.... And that is something i now truly value to the extent that now even if we just do ikkyo for 3 or 4 months every time is my chance to try something different...so that it is my aikido.
Wonderful. That is aikido
I think if you are looking for an out. Age is your excuse. I have spoken with doctors who tell us that Aikido is very healthy to build our body and physical endurance and heart strength. Thus creating longer livelihood. ❤
For sure. I am sure it is an easy out. Aikido training = good health
There should be an uke class where old ppl practice throwing and young ppl taking ukemi. In the perfect world
When I started aikido I was 13/14, Osensei, was still alive,Aikido was one. Then his death changed everything and my training.I was very resilient. I could do rolls on the asphalt and did!:)lol Now at 71 no way!. I did a soft syle aikido 10 years ago and i am thinking of restarting for the summer.Will see how i do.Cardio is definitely down.
So cool to be doing Aikido at that time. Yes! You should definitely start up again. Thanks for watching.
@@AikidoCenterLA Thank you. Your founder Sensei Furuya was one of my teacher when I was with San Fernando AikiKai before the great split. He was a great teacher. He and Sensei Kobayshi were my instructors before for years. Some years ago I had a dream about your sensei. I went to your dojo to thank him for helping me in my aikido & my life. . I asked someone where he was and i wanted to thank him. The person was a little surprised. He informed me Sensei Fuyura had died the day before. As I bowed and left, I quietly thank him.:)
20:51 - not teaching kids to break fall... I've never understood the logic behind this. When my kids started judo at ages 5 and 10, their sensei spent the first two months having them only do breakfall. No randori at all for those first two months. Just solid breakfall training, over and over and over again, until they became very proficient in breakfalling. If taught properly, why is this dangerous? Young kids that age, are learning much more complicated and dangerous things, such as gymnastics, and doing complex skateboarding tricks. In fact, my kids learning how to break fall in judo has saved them countless of times when one of them fell backwards out of a tree; tripped and fell down a long flight of stairs; went over the handle bars on their bicycle, falling off of their skateboards, etc. Learning breakfalling, and learning how to dissipate the force, even on asphalt and concrete, saved their skulls and saved them from losing a mouthful of teeth.
43:03 - so I don't understand where you're coming from and what's your position. First you say that young kids and 60 year olds should not learn to breakfall because it's too dangerous for them. Then here you talk about how your mind limits you, and you start to talk about how old people in Japan taking ukemi. You seem to be advocating for opposite things here, causing me to not know where you actually stand on these issues.