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	<title>Peter's Soapbox &#187; Aikido</title>
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		<title>Shoulder Tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do humans have a tendency to &#8220;get into our shoulders?&#8221; I&#8217;ve been pondering this for a while now. When I first started practicing aikido, my sensei told me that I was &#8220;very much in my head.&#8221; These days, I feel like I&#8217;ve settled down from being in my head to more &#8220;in my shoulders.&#8221;
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Aikido and Injuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve got experience with, it&#8217;s injuries. As always, I don&#8217;t claim to be an expert here, but with a broken clavicle, broken femur, sublexed patella, subluxed wrist bones, bursitis, and a psoas that can best be described as &#8220;too tight,&#8221; I definitely have some experience with training under less than optimal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on Aikido</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/02/20/blogging-on-aikido/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to start chronicling some of my thoughts and experiences on aikido here on my blog. While I&#8217;ve mentioned things from time time time, I&#8217;ve really only cited the fact that I&#8217;ve been at a seminar here and there, or referenced some other aikido-related website. 
That having been said, I do not claim to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Month!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/11/10/what-a-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a month! I've been busy.]]></description>
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		<title>Koshinage and Sensei Flashbacks</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/09/24/koshinage-and-sensei-flashbacks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/09/24/koshinage-and-sensei-flashbacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, fighting a cold, I led our weekly Wednesday night Aikido basics class at the dojo here. For the second week in a row, we covered basics of koshinage (hip throw), and did drills to help build leg strength, as well as to build the kinesthetic memory and response which enables one to perform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Power of Full Enagement</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/09/11/book-review-the-power-of-full-enagement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/09/11/book-review-the-power-of-full-enagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. As the subtitle indicates, &#8220;Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal.&#8221;  
I found this book particularly interesting and useful, as it bucks the current &#8220;getting things done&#8221; and other &#8220;time management&#8221; trends, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McConnell Taping</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/18/mcconnell-taping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, after starting a new round of physical therapy for my knee, I experimented with McConnell Taping to see if it could keep my patella in place. I&#8217;d tried something like this before, and was pretty skeptical.
To my surprise, the technique not only moved my kneecap into a more proper location, the tape actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shobu Aikido Vermont Summer Gasshukku with William Gleason Sensei</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/17/shobu-aikido-vermont-summer-gasshukku-with-william-gleason-sensei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I had the pleasure of training with William (Bill) Gleason Sensei, who taught several classes at our dojo in Woodstock, Vermont. Gleason Sensei has been incorporating more techniques to develop internal control and power into his teachings, which is still new to me, and  very interesting. I am looking forward to more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aikido Summer Camp in the Rockies 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/02/aikido-summer-camp-in-the-rockies-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/08/02/aikido-summer-camp-in-the-rockies-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent last week in Colorado at Boulder Aikikai&#8217;s Aikido Summer Camp in the Rockies. It was a solid week of Aikido training, several hours a day, with some of the world&#8217;s highest-ranked Aikido instructors, in some of the most beautiful territory I&#8217;ve ever been. Needless to say, I had a great time.On the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gogol Bordello: Lessons Learned in Caffeine, Punctuality and Randori</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/06/07/gogol-bordello-lessons-learned-in-caffeine-punctuality-and-randori/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/06/07/gogol-bordello-lessons-learned-in-caffeine-punctuality-and-randori/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delayed blog post alert!
I saw Gogol Bordello, a gypsy punk band, perform in Burlington, VT on June 6. I learned a few things, and validated others which I already knew.
First, let be back up to that morning&#8217;s Aikido class, where lesson one of the day took place. Sensei told me, early during our first technique, [...]]]></description>
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