Let us have a universal spirit that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop. To unify mind and body and to become one with the universe is the ultimate purpose of my study.
--The Motto of Wadokai Aikido

They Are All Basic

The question was asked tonight, about the technique being demonstrated, "How would you rate this technique, Shihan? Is it basic, or advanced? How difficult do you consider it?"

Shihan's answer was, "There are no advanced techniques. They are all basic. There are no difficult techniques, they are all simple. Advanced waza consists of doing the basic with precision and the simple with proper form."

The rest of the world tells Chuck Norris jokes.

Shihan Sam once had a boomerang. It was too scared to come back.

Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, fear of Shihan Sam is called Logic.

Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Shihan Sam stories.

Shihan Sam has a grizzly bear carpet in his room. The bear isn't dead it is just afraid to move.

Shihan Sam is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Shihan Sam.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Shihan Sam.

Left and Right

Just an observation about my ukemi. I can roll adequately out of a kaitenage on the right side. Not so on the left. Landed badly the other night and am still feeling it.

Proof

Shihan really was once a white belt.