The dan economy. Part 2: Invisible costs and lost opportunities

What rank tourism costs — and what it prevents us from building

4 hrs ago • Dokiai Media

March 2026

The dan economy. Part 1: How rank became a product

A brief history of how aikido certification went from connection to transaction

Mar 25 • Dokiai Media

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When the institution kills motivation (and what we’re building instead). Part 3

Recognizing when the system is the problem, and the price of staying

Mar 11 • Dokiai Media

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February 2026

How to outlast the aikido plateau (when everyone else quits). Part 2

Navigation strategies that actually work, backed by research and decades of practice

Feb 25

Why your brain is trying to make you quit aikido (and it’s working exactly as designed). Part 1

What the plateau reveals about how motivation actually works

Feb 11 • Dokiai Media

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January 2026

I thought I failed every exam I ever took. Part 3: Why exam stress happens and how to work with it

Three mechanisms that reduce harmful exam stress and why aikido should study performance science

Jan 28 • Dokiai Media

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I thought I failed every exam I ever took. Part 2: Why my students stopped being nervous

How extended preparation and simple structure changed exam behavior without adding pressure.

Jan 14 • Dokiai Media

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December 2025

I thought I failed every exam I ever took. Part 1: Why exam anxiety reveals

What exam anxiety reveals about attention, pressure, and how progression is measured.

Dec 31, 2025 • Dokiai Media

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Wisdom forged in pain. Part 3

How pain rewires movement intelligence

Dec 10, 2025 • Dokiai Media

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November 2025

Wisdom forged in pain. Part 2

Why aikido keeps producing the same injuries

Nov 26, 2025 • Dokiai Media

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Wisdom forged in pain. Part 1

When pain forced me to find another way

Nov 12, 2025 • Dokiai Media

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October 2025

Presence is the practice. Part 4: Translating aikido to people who’ll never step on a mat

If most people won't do Aikido, can we still bring it to them?

Oct 28, 2025

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