Aikido-concentration and physical stamina From www.yokoishikura.com/english Today I had the second class of Aikido for the year 2008. I had been interested in Aikido since I saw a big Canadian man could not do anything against a small Japanese master in Aikido over 20 years ago. Some 20 years later(about 2 years ago), I found Aikido class for adults every Sunday. In Aikido class, I am forced to concentrate because I get hurt if I do not. If we learn how to concentrate even for half an hour or so on something, we are onto the productive, creative and above all, fun life.

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Illegal immigration problems continue in Cyprus, Europe From Cyprus Observer 16 Iraqi Sportsmen in the fields of Taekwondo, Karate and Aikido branches who arrived in northern Cyprus on January 9 to participate in matches against the Turkish Cypriot National Team fled to southern Cyprus. President of the Turkish Cypriot Taekwondo Karate Aikido Kurash Wushu Federation Mustafa Aktug said that the Iraqi sportsmen had participated in an international competition in northern Cyprus last October and had then applied to do training in northern Cyprus with the condition that...

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Boisean teaches the way of the American Buddhist From IdahoStatesman.com "We have the Buddha nature inside all of us," Dana Marsh says, smiling. "That means not making it so mysterious and full of mysticism and ritual, but still teaching the heart of what Buddha taught," Marsh says. That's not the way in Buddhism, she says. It was just covered up," Marsh said. The fact that a new form of Buddhism is emerging is nothing new to the practice, Anam Thubten said. "If you know the history of Buddhism, it has gone through many changes," he said. "My goal is to bring...

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MTA workers save man from bridge plunge From amNewYork A handshake and six transit workers kept a suicidal man from plunging to his death from the Williamsburg Bridge Thursday. Ridgewood man after he crawled down to a catwalk next to the bridge's railing at 12:40 p.m. The man, who told the workers that his name was Tony, appeared high and was still wearing a bracelet from a Brooklyn hospital where he tried to seek help, the workers said. Sticatto, who began working with the MTA two months ago, had saved another man's life on the same bridge...

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Lessons from Japan From Star News A hockey player from St. Cloud named Mark Larson moved to Japan in 1992 at age 20 when his ambition to play in the WCHA was supplanted by his long-standing dream of learning the martial art Aikido. When his Aikido master died in 2002, the Larsons and their two young children moved back to Minnesota. Continuing what they started in Sauk Rapids, Yuko teaches cooking, language and culture classes, and Mark is sharing his considerable knowledge of Aikido. Grammond remarked that Mark is a...

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