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Issue 9

Winter 2006 Spring 2006

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Issue 9

Issue 8

Winter 2005 Spring 2005

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Issue 8

Issue 7

Winter 2004 Spring 2004

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Issue 7

Issue 6

Winter 2003 - Spring 2003

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Ukemi

Issue 5

Autumn 2001 - Winter 2002

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Aikido and Family Our 5th issue's main theme explores the relationships with aikidoka and their families. Benjamin Pincus Sensei begins the issue with his humorous and insightful views on Aikido and the Family. In Breathing, David Mendenhall explores his own dynamics between aikido and family, while Jonathan Trigaux offers his glimpse in How It's Supposed to Work. "Aikido Dads" Ed Sullivan and Kevin Hutt give their perspectives raising kids in aikido with their respective articles Why Aikido? and Getting to Aikido and Staying There. Geoff Abbott describes The Family of Aikido he finds at the dojo, while Stephen Lane shares his Growing Pains of leaving that family behind. The struggle of merging aikido and family life emerge in Neil Bednar's article The Harmony of Family. Poems by Sergio Ventura, Denise Messier, and Elizabeth Hazen, and our ACV Kids! section, featuring Blake Sullivan, Isabel Sullivan, and Nicolas Hutt round out this issue. PDF format also includes photos by Heidi Albright, Catrin Steward, Ed Pincus, and Dan Gauger.

Issue 4

Summer 2001

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Weapons and Aikido Perspectives of aikido and weapons comprise this issue's main theme. Benjamin Pincus Sensei offers his thoughts on weapons training with Thrust Without Thrusting, while John Jorschick describes common lessons learned between Weapons and Cooking. Benjamin Pincus Sensei also gives tribute to his aikido roots in Remembering Paul Sylvain Sensei. Returning to the mat, Clarence Davis also explores a return to shoshin - beginner's mind - in Ukemi, Please. Four striking poems provided by Rick Skogsberg, our Technical Corner detailing tantori tsuki rokkyo (6th defense against knife thrust to the stomach), and our ACV Kids! section featuring works by Alden Ladd and Isabel Sullivan complete this issue. Available for the first time in PDF format, this issue also features photos and original artwork by John Jorschick, Sean Harrington, and Julie Stanitis.

Issue 3

Autumn 2000 - Winter 2001

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Aikido in Everyday Life Lessons applied to real life abound in this issue, from Benjamin Pincus Sensei's exploration of aikido and farming in Washing Leeks to Maria Hazen's Lessons on the Lawn with her 18-month-old nephew. A life of peaks and valleys, both at work and on the mat, are described in David Mendenhall's Bruises, while Andre Messier recalls the intensity of summer camp in An Aikido Vacation. Heidi Albright reflects on a lifelong philosophical journey in On Testing For Shodan. Germaine Persinger and Nicholas Hutt, both in the children¹s class, tell us why they like aikido.

Issue 2

Summer 2000

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The Sword That Gives Life Benjamin Pincus Sensei writes passionately about his search for the meaning of our theme's paradox in The Sword That Gives Life, while Laura-Rose Russell gives an emotional view into her inner struggle on the mat in Going with the Grain. Ed Pincus builds on his memories of the late Terry Dobson Sensei and the aikido of love and hate. In Aikido is my Middle Way, Sean Harrington shares insights about aikido principles applied to the real world, and David Mendenhall provides us with a poetic reflection of bokken training on a chilly March morning. A story of aikido in action, by nine-year-old Blake Sullivan rounds out the issue.

Issue 1

Autumn 1999 - Winter 2000

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Beginner's Mind — Inaugural Issue Benjamin Pincus Sensei opens this inaugural issue with a look at the meaning of shoshin - beginner's mind - setting the stage for many articles which articulate how different individuals view their own learning process. Notes on Terry Dobson's Teachings, by Ed Pincus, challenges our notions of form and style, while David Mendenhall's Unlearning looks at the myriad insights he's gained both on the mat and at home with his family. Spunqi Robinson crafts a jubilant account of her first few months of practice, and Sean Harrington grapples with changing styles and finding his "beginner's mind" in Dojo to Dojo. XX in Aikido presents Maria Hazen's thoughtful treatment of what it means to be a woman at ACV, and a description of her experience at a women-only aikido demonstration. Our ACV Kids section is full of the kind of wisdom and elegant simplicity that only children can produce.