Love the advice in this video! Cultivate an open mind, practice the basics for a strong foundation, and meet the challenge of learning with gratitude and dedication. I got to practice all these skills training in Aikido with Erik and it made a huge and lasting positive impact.
Focus on everything you do and every moment of the practice.Observe yousellf-your body movements,your balance, your partner.How he(she) interacts with you.Focus on distance, position.Fill the difference between the different partners.
Not sure I know what the spinning ball is? As for the inverse square law, the further away you are the less intense something is, right? Hmm, can you elaborate?
Thank you Erik! Took my first class today, as a way to be out of my depth, put aside the ego, gain space in a new community and find a more fluid Peaceful way to move through the world. My athleticism and life's passion has been in rock climbing for 15+ years and prior to that I gave everything for most of my life to the art of weapons and strategy in battle and competition settings in a LARP called Amtgard. This does provide a great base of body awareness but the flow of contact with another human using Aikido is not intuitive and I feel so out of my comfort zone. Thus, I've found a practice needing my full attention to learn new words, practices and how to interact with others and my body. Beautiful. Likely, in it for the long game after one session, though I'm grateful to find your channel to push aside the doubt and keep moving forward.
Great advice!! Love the video!
Thank you, I'm glad you loved it, now all you have to do is "come to class!"
Love the advice in this video! Cultivate an open mind, practice the basics for a strong foundation, and meet the challenge of learning with gratitude and dedication. I got to practice all these skills training in Aikido with Erik and it made a huge and lasting positive impact.
Thank you, Matt!
Very cool ! I like your method of squad using bokken.
Thank you. It'll really burn the quads!
Hey, just started practicing aikido and im in love with the art, your words in this video just made me wanna practice more!
Thank you.
You should try to extend your arms fully on pull-ups to work on your full range of motion :D
Yea, I used to to do them like that, but started getting tennis elbow, so I don't fully extend to prevent that...
Focus on everything you do and every moment of the practice.Observe yousellf-your body movements,your balance, your partner.How he(she) interacts with you.Focus on distance, position.Fill the difference between the different partners.
Very nice advice!
4:50 think again about the spinning ball, Inverse-square law 🌤
Not sure I know what the spinning ball is? As for the inverse square law, the further away you are the less intense something is, right? Hmm, can you elaborate?
Love it! Are you still in Japan?
No, moved back to the States a while ago.
Number one:
Learn to Box!
🤔 hmm, you really think so?
@@ErikCalderon Boxing is the King, Wrestling the Queen.
And plenty suburi
Yes!
Judo took my aikido to another level
Nice!
Hey Erik, you're in better shape than I am! I oughta step my running game up.
Let me know when you wan'na go for a run. Might start a run club.
Thanks for those wise words; I’ve been doing aikido for 18 years and loved everything you said.
Very welcome, glad you enjoyed!
Thank you Erik! Took my first class today, as a way to be out of my depth, put aside the ego, gain space in a new community and find a more fluid
Peaceful way to move through the world.
My athleticism and life's passion has been in rock climbing for 15+ years and prior to that I gave everything for most of my life to the art of weapons and strategy in battle and competition settings in a LARP called Amtgard.
This does provide a great base of body awareness but the flow of contact with another human using Aikido is not intuitive and I feel so out of my comfort zone. Thus, I've found a practice needing my full attention to learn new words, practices and how to interact with others and my body. Beautiful. Likely, in it for the long game after one session, though I'm grateful to find your channel to push aside the doubt and keep moving forward.
I've been rock climbing for 10 years now, and my best climbing sessions are when I get out of my comfort zone! I hope you enjoy your journey!
great video! liked the advice about reading books.
Thank you, Miki!
Great video Erik!
Thank you, Karen.