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Yes there is a site named “upcoming” and it belong to yahoo, but other than true geeks and sandbox players nobody really uses it in real life. Go figure. What is real life, you ask. Still trying to figure out that one, but having a ball!
Now, this Sunday is Aikido Sunday with Barbara Imboden Shidoin, [...]

I summarise the 2008 Birankai Spring Camp in Labaroche in one word: stress. It was my fourth year, and as every preceding year, it was different from all others. Three of us travelled for two hours from Berne to Labaroche on Saturday the 12th and returned on the 19th. In between I must confess that [...]

00220, originally uploaded by milenanelim.

No! It is just a back stretch at the end of training. Sensei Matt Teale (Athens, Greece) did correct my stance when doing this just on Sunday as I was standing much broadly and running the risk of getting an hernia. Nine hours of training during the [...]

Me loves you all, you all know that, or sorta know that. But now imagine all the films that I have missed while writing up my own. Writing up? It is a long story as usual.
Recently I told somebody very dear to me who was stuck in a certain dearly and tightly held position to [...]

Saturday routines or occasional returning rites that make it into my periscope include running a few errands and then having a coffee and smoke in a local café while reading the Saturday local and international press. I may be the only local politician who does not read the daily paper everyday, only on weekends, and [...]

Stage is a nice word. There are two kinds of stages that I like, the one’s at the theatre and the ones that equate to phases.
I stumble on stories every day. Real life stories and most of the time they mean nothing to me. What is it like to tell stories and what is it [...]

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Just yesterday Guido led his last training before going off to Meiringen to take a position teaching at the Ecole d’Humanité. Happy as I am for Chantal, Guido and their three children to have found the fantastic opportunity of working and living at one of the most interesting schools in Switzerland, I know that [...]

I am throughly drenched in having my body back and pounded soft on the tatami releasing whatever it is that gets released in such concentrated efforts. The weekend was once more fantastic, not better that others, not worse, it can not even be compared. It is Tuesday already.
Sunday before leaving Chris Mooney Sensei gave me [...]

Chris Mooney Shihan, UK, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.

Chris is in Berne this weekend for a Seminar at our dojo.
Stage mit Chris Mooney Shihan
Freitag, Samstag, Sonntag
8. bis 10. Juni 2007
Trainingszeiten
Freitag
18.00 – 20.15 Uhr
Samstag
9.30 – 12.00 Uhr
14.00 – 17.30 Uhr
Sonntag
9.30 – 13.00 Uhr
Zazen
Samstag/Sonntag, 8.00 – 9.00 Uhr

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Friday is just another day, on a good day Friday’s work day ends before I leave for training and my computer has backed up the week’s work. We were four for training today. Guido lead the training (Sensei), Ivo, Lothar and well the utterly frustrated me were the foursome.
When I arrived at the dojo today [...]

The Lift 07 t-shirt finds itself on the Labaroche tatami.

Click on the icon above to be taken directly to Yves Lepoivre’s photos of the Labaroche Aikido Spring Course hosted by the Aikikai de Strasbourg.

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In Labaroche Yves asked me why I blog…
Yves is the one responsible for most, and also this year’s Labaroche Aikido pictures on the site of the Aikikai de Strasbourg. If that was not enough, he is also the site’s webmaster, occasional essayist and transalator. I have always admired the fact that he manages to both [...]