{"id":862,"date":"2015-04-26T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=862"},"modified":"2015-04-29T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:31:26","slug":"weapons-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Weapons in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0c1YPTvtJgk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Archie Champion Shihan of Central Coast Aikikai and Dennis Belt Shihan of <a href=\"http:\/\/venturaaikikai.com\/\">Ventura Aikikai <\/a>got together this weekend once again to teach what has become a semi-annual &#8220;Weapons in the Park&#8221; class in Ventura, Calif.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Much emphasis was placed by both instructors on NOT being mechanical in our weapons work. Students were reminded \u00a0to &#8220;know what you are doing and why you are doing it&#8221; and to &#8220;be able to respond to whatever comes.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Much thanks to both shihan for donating their time.\u00a0 And speaking of being able to respond to whatever comes, we actually got a little bit of rain (hallelujah!) while in the park.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t nearly enough to end our drought here in California, but it felt good all the same.<\/div>\n<div>(More videos at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BiranOnline\">BiranOnline channel on Youtube<\/a>.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><em>&#8211; Pat Belt, <a href=\"http:\/\/venturaaikikai.com\/\">Ventura Aikikai<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Also check out the video below of Pat Belt Sensei of Ventura Aikikai, the latest in our &#8220;Women of Birankai&#8221; video series. Keep those videos coming!<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gpn5m8JRXUE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archie Champion Shihan of Central Coast Aikikai and Dennis Belt Shihan of Ventura Aikikai got together this weekend once again to teach what has become a semi-annual &#8220;Weapons in the Park&#8221; class in Ventura, Calif. Much emphasis was placed by both instructors on NOT being mechanical in our weapons work. Students were reminded \u00a0to &#8220;know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weapons in the Park&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}