by Kimbal Anderson Sensei
So I want to talk to you a couple of concepts that we’re going to work with…
I was just thinking how little, in aikido training, you see that is based on multiple people doing something. Sometimes you have randori, where a single person has a multitude being uke. Occasionally we have two people grabbing. But the emphasis is not on the beneficent organization of multiple people It’s usually based on a bunch of people doing the wrong thing.
But I guess the counterpoint to that is the concept of what a dojo is.
In Japan, if we lived in some rural area, the dojo, in essence, would be a school of community…