Reflections on rehabilitation
by Sensei Fran Turner

Every individual, every action makes a difference in the world. That is also something we are learning as we practice aikido.

Since my knee surgery in mid-May, I feel as though I've been revisiting some areas of my life. The first area that I came back to, albeit briefly, was dance. I had studied dance for seven years before I discovered aikido, or aikido found me. Earlier this year I was asked to teach at the First Festival of Interactive Physics, a festival focussing on Contact Improv organized by Pam Johnson and Karen Resnick Kaeja...
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"Donovan is an important guy—he is world-reknowned in aikido." —Steven Patterson, Director

Donovan Waite on screen
by John McNabb

Donovan Waite Sensei, having already acted in the film, Inside Out, has choreographed a new movie, Drawing Down the Moon. It incorporates Witchcraft, Chaos Theory, and Aikido.
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Interview with Fran Turner Sensei
The conclusion of a two-part series begun in the last issue.

I entered irimi, put my hand right on his centre line right over his chest, and I said very quietly, "What's the matter?"

by Jonathan Marks

Turner Sensei's Japan trip, aikido use in self-defense, and views on cross-training.
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I was very impressed by Sensei Waite's active participation with others on the mat.

Summer Seminar 1997
by Joseph Shaw

I was asked to take some time and offer you my recollections and observations of the Donovan Waite Sensei seminar. Because I was unable to participate on the mat, my views of the techniques demonstrated by Donovan Sensei are those of an educated? observer...
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State of the union
Poetry by Sylvo Frank

This Keener Award goes to... Dariuscz Macalka.
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"To empty one's mind of all thought and refill the void with a spirit greater than oneself is to extend the mind into a realm not accessible by conventional processes of reason."

—Edward Hill (from The Language of Drawing)

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