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Finally time to watch the whole video - suffering now from serious FOMO! What a wonderful group!

Just what I needed❤🎉 superb. I have taught both these arts and trained and taught for exactly 50 odd years.

super interesting to hear from 4 sensei’s pov coming from different levels of experience and backgrounds. Ah to be a fly on the wall…. oh, wait a minute 😉

One of my favorite seminars to date!

Tremendously enjoyed Sensei Yanti's classes.

This is great. Quite helpful for a paper I'm writing right now. Check out the pilgrimage mandalas of nachi!

Hello, can you recommend me please where I can experience Kyudo in Japan? like where to book ? thank you

This has so many interesting points.

Congratulations on another very interesting episode! I was thinking about what you said about the beginner mind and motivation and how to the expert there are no options, and my thought there is that, as you progress through training, behind every little detail there is just a world more to learn. So, maybe keeping an open mind means acknowledging that through training we just access even more to master within the ever smaller getting confinements of what we already know, and being motivated means to keep getting excited about the smaller and smaller steps (which are not actually smaller because they move into a different dimension, so instead of forward they go deeper). I hope this makes as much sense to you as it does in my head :)

I just stumbled over your podcast and I am now 4 episodes deep in one afternoon... Thank you so much for these conversations. You really got me thinking a ton on many of the topics you touch. But the one thing I want to point out is how you got me to reflect on my own demeanor as a tall strong old white cis guy around the dojo and the Senpai Syndrome that comes with it. I teach a lot in my professional context and it happens to me a lot where I sort of bring that onto the mat even though I am in no position to do that. To not be too hard on myself, I do Judo, and its pedagogy is deliberately more explicit and deductive than in Aikido or Koryu, as well as the figure of the Sensei (we'd say instructor) being less prominent, but you've really made me think a lot about the ways that my behaviour may be undermining the core points of the class or be detrimental to my fellow students' progress in that I burden them with too many things to pay attention to... In short, your content is very enriching and there's a lot of inspiration to be found for everyone! Thanks!

This was a great episode! I loved hearing Roche Sensei's perspective and experience. I have wanted to learn naginata for decades, but don't live near a dojo...

It’s always interesting to hear the opinions of different people, in different circumstances practising different arts and where it converges.

This is a good discussion - I've talked about this with Roo Heins Sensei about grading often (the concept, never asking to be graded because that would be rude). We test as a cohort (a group of us that train together...we're all white belts) and there's really been no schedule. Birankai aikido has a curriculum that's well defined and designed to develop specific skills/movements. There are definitely pros and cons - some people are motivated by knowing where they are relative to that curriculum. Some folks are too wigged out by exams.

Thank you for sharing great perspectives on Maai Perspective. Roo Heins Sensei is a great Instructor and wonderful human, with a rich history and life experiences. We are fortunate to have her here in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Great interviews as always, and thank you for giving space for all the strong women in budo. Jeremy

Fabulous interview Roo Sensei. You've been on the periphery of my training for decades now (literally), but I've never really had the chance to interface. It was a pleasure to get a feel for your perspective. Now I'm specifically looking forward to being on the mat with you!

I havent finished listening to the whole interview but wanna jump in and say - Very informative perspective and very good interview, this is great! Iaido is The study of ones own ego is a great way to put it, and Junto really highlights that, thanks Cathy! - *continues listening*

A very interesting interview. Thank you!

Some really interesting points of view , thank you

Such a great interview 🫶🏽🙌🏽

Hello Cathy and Fran! Claudio here, from Canada. I have been following the Aikido of London and Gyudokan Dojos for a while now and during this time I've always watched videos with a girl whose Aikido is absolutely incredible and today I learned that this girl is Fran! As an Aikido practicioner, I cannot compliment you and thank you enough for what you do for the Aikido community. And seeing so many people interested and practicing hard is a joy. I feel like fostering Aikido in Canada is very difficult and you're doing a great job there in the UK! Thanks and take care!

Great podcast , some interesting subjects , with regards on the whole grading thing ,you really had me searching what I think about not having kyu grades , for me the kyu grades give myself a point of reference of where I need to improve on to get to shodan and my sensei see what he is teaching is being translated correctly , if there was no grades ,I'd still train but I think alot would find it hard as many want that sense of achievement especially kids , Just my thoughts not judging ,each to his or her own

So happy that you guys are back 🎉

What month was this trip?

矢を放った瞬間の音がいい音ですね

今は訳あってやっていませんが以前弓道をやっていたものです。 これまで様々な武道をやってきましたが個人的に弓道は単なる武道とは言い難いところがあり、柔道や剣道のようにスポーツ競技化されていない所が多分に残っています。 例えれば弓道はまるで「禅」のようで、自然との調和、その場との調和、神との調和、万象との調和を必要としています。 そのひとつひとつの動きには意味があり、そこに射手の精神・思想・哲学・人生・善悪・鍛錬・覚悟・大義・無心・意思・静穏・人間性などが混ざり合い矢飛びとなり射撃姿勢となると思います。 迷い・邪念・欲等があれば、たとえ的を射たとしてもその射は弓道とは言えません。 そういえば「弓と禅」という古い本がありますが、あの本にあることが未だ弓道にはしっかり残っていると思います。 弓道はある意味「和」の極みだと思います。 知れば知るほど難しく奥が深く広大で崇高だと私は思います。

弓を引く女性の佇まいって、美しいね。流鏑馬もそうだけど、女性が行うとなぜか男より絵になって、映える（笑）

ツボに刺さった！😭 いや 心臓を射抜かれたが 適してるか？

美しい👍 見ている私も心が一点に集中できそうな静寂さですね。

安土に矢取りの人がまだ居るのに、矢を放ってる！ 射場が違うからなのか。 でも怖い。

Wonderful video! I appreciated the quiet. No narrator babbling. Very little ambient noise. Great having a look at the dojo and Jess practicing.

美しい時間！

Very interesting video…i would have liked to see the hits. Those targets looked very small. Holding an arrow while shooting looks hard

ただただ美しい。人ではなく造形物。鏡の様な湖面。ここはあの戦争をしている地球なのか…❤🎉

まさしく『全集中』という感じですね。 　身体の隅々まで意識を行き渡らせる感覚が 心地よさそうです。

What a beautiful display of this very beautiful art. Thank you for this video.

かーっこ良い、、、！ Cool...！

茶髪で弓道。やめてくれ。品がない。

when i buy a plot of land I'm 100% building this range. the Japanese know how to live. best culture

Beuatiful performance!! The clip is the ART of kyudo heritage.

Hello everyone, thank you so much for such an interesting conversation! We practice Aikido, here in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. We have a Facebook page, and someone commented that based on a photo that we were teaching ---- terrorism!!!!! His view was solely based on our training uniform!!!! yeah - figure that one out?! Again, thanks so much, and we look forward to more wonderful conversations! Take care, all the best to you all! :) :) :)

The discipline and stamina required for this are hard to comprehend. I'd never heard of Ms. Gerrity. Now she has me reading about things like ikigai and finding my own ibasho, probably with fly fishing:).

Fascinant

Amazing trip - feel like i was there with you ❤

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Hope to see more of you guys! :)

Love kyudo, I want to do it

Loving to follow your tracks! So inspiring and relaxing❤

É muito interessante a gente ver lugares e costumes tão diferentes pra gente. Bom que vcs estao mostrando, vale a pena ver e ver vcs tbm. Amo vcs. Bjs

That torii is huge! Thanks for sharing guys.

Well made video! Congrats!

Aproveitem❤