{"id":552,"date":"2014-05-20T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=552"},"modified":"2014-05-20T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:01:56","slug":"global-birankai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Global Birankai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Check out new May issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birankai.eu\/shiun_en.html\"><em>Musubi<\/em><\/a>, the newsletter of Birankai Europe. (Access French<\/p>\n<p>versions of Musubi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birankai.eu\/shiun_fr.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chiba Sensei on \u201cThe Challenge of Age\u201d (from a 1988 essay): \u201cIt can be said then that the true study of art (or life as art) only begins at forty. Although physical ability may begin to decline at this time, the physical aspect is only a part of what is\n<figure id=\"attachment_553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beginners-class-Musubi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-553\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beginners-class-Musubi-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie McCalla (right) and Anna Jigoulina at the new beginner's course at Cocks Moors Woods Dojo in Birmingham, England. (From Musubi)\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beginners-class-Musubi-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beginners-class-Musubi.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie McCalla (right) and Anna Jigoulina at the new beginner&#8217;s course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocksmoorsaikido.co.uk\/\">Cocks Moors Woods Aikido<\/a> in Birmingham, England. (From Musubi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>required to be a fine Aikidoist.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Ducoret Sensei of Paris on \u201cUnderstand the Centre of Gravity&#8221;: \u201cWhile we constantly use our centre of gravity in Aikido and usually in all physical activities, we are not fully aware of its constitution and its operation.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s also information on Birankai Europe Summer School (camp), to be held this year in Wroclaw, Poland, featuring Miyamoto Sensei. Camp dates are July 26 to Aug. 2. Contact Information and online registration can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/aikidowroclaw.co\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, don\u2019t forget that the deadline is June 10 for the Summer Camp print issue of Biran, our Birankai North America Newsletter. Essays, photos, art, poetry and seminar reports are welcome! Send contributions to sensei@firehorseaikido.org.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>L. Klein<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out new May issue of Musubi, the newsletter of Birankai Europe. (Access French versions of Musubi here.) Some highlights: Chiba Sensei on \u201cThe Challenge of Age\u201d (from a 1988 essay): \u201cIt can be said then that the true study of art (or life as art) only begins at forty. Although physical ability may begin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Global Birankai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-8U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}