Hi, my name is Linda Eskin. In May of 2009, at age 46, I came to Aikido to improve my horsemanship. It's become about much more than that for me.
I train with Dave Goldberg Sensei at Aikido of San Diego.
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I am a beginning student of Aikido, a martial art that, like horsemanship, takes a lifetime to master. These posts are only my own observations on my own experience. You should not rely on anything I say here. Any inept or incorrect information is my own responsibility, and should not be a reflection on others.
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Dave Goldberg Sensei for being an extraordinary teacher, and for creating an engaged, thinking, and compassionate community of students and teachers at
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Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011, Linda Eskin. Please feel free to share any of my poetry, online, or in print, keeping my name and any other acknowledgments with it. I will almost certainly be happy to let you use anything else I've posted here, with proper attribution, but please ask first.
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Life lessons from last night’s class, in which Sensei focused on good ukemi in freestyle:
- Be present in your body.
- Don’t go, or take a fall, in anticipation of what you think is coming.
- Feel what’s actually happening.
- Stay soft and responsive.
- Spring back the moment the pressure is off.
- Keep your integrity.
- You have more power in the situation when you have a solid base.
- Keep moving. Do something. Don’t just stand there and wait for the attack to come.
- By choosing how you invite the attack, you will be better able to deal with it.
- If your balance is really taken, go with it. Make the new direction yours. Own it.
- Keep your center, and be ready to respond to openings for reversals.
Important points to take to heart, in Aikido and in everything.
Along those same lines, via my friend William Cummings on Facebook yesterday:
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles , but most of them never happened .”
- Mark Twain
