Some concluding thoughts to follow up on my last post On Experimentation in Aikido. Some of the more vexing issues that come up with regard to the formal or ritualistic aspects of training in Aikido and other martial arts can be illuminated if we consider the difference between learning things cognitively and learning things corporeally. … Continue reading
The Aikido seminar or Gashuku always has the feel of a totemic gathering of the tribes in which one gets to meet and practice with members of other dojos and sometimes try different styles or lineages of Aikido. Some of them stand out as occasions where one not only refines technique or learns principles but … Continue reading
Gilles Deleuze makes a distinction between a “plane of consistence” and a “plane of organization” which is extremely suggestive for trying to think through the conflict between forms of life and the powers that diminish life. It is also extremely suggestive for the study of Aikido, and vice versa. Like most of Deleuze’s concepts these … Continue reading
Alan Drengson`s website: http://alandrengson.com/ Bill Little: You taught a course in the philosophy department at the University of Victoria called an Introduction to Eastern Philosophy in which you sometimes used to lecture on Aikido. If philosophy literally means ‘the love of knowledge or wisdom’, what kind of knowledge is Aikido? What lessons can we learn … Continue reading
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