Aiki.com
/ Arete Press
1420 N Claremont Blvd, Suite 204C
Claremont,
CA 91711
1-800-445-AIKI
909-624-7770
Aiki.com
is the residual business of Aikido Today Magazine, Aikido's premier magazine for 19
years. Aikido Today Magazine was an international non-partisan magazine dedicated to opening
the Aikido world. It began in 1987 and finished its run
with the 100th issue covering July/ Aug 2005.
ATM
is the brainchild of Susan Perry and Ronald Rubin a husband
and wife team. Through their efforts Aikido students were
able to see beyond the organizational structures and as
a result many intra-organizational web pages and groups
have formed to study Aikido's principles and applications.
Central to ATM was the Calendar of
Events where seminars and workshops were listed for
free. This enabled students the choice of attending classes
of teachers outside their own school and organization. Also,
ATM was first to publish an annual Dojo Directory,
which ran current information of dojos wishing to list.
(Both of these services are continued here at aiki.com.)
Susan, through her many interviews over the past 19 years,
gave an international voice to instructors around the world.
She has interviewed many of the direct students of O-sensei
(including O-sensei's son and grandson) as well as many
of the next generation of Aikido teachers and leaders. Because
of their position, these leaders are sometimes difficult
to approach and so through published interviews their thoughts
were made available to all Aikido students. (Many back issues
are available, please see the magazine
listing in the aiki.com shop to check out back issues.)
Ron and Susan are philosophy teachers; Susan quit her position
with California State University to run ATM and Ron is still at work at the Claremont
Colleges. Accordingly, they have enjoyed a practice they
see as philosophic as well as physical. A result is that
through ATM, they were active proponents of Aikido
"off the mat" (for many years, ATM ran a successful column called "Aiki Extensions");
which extends Aikido's practice off the mat. They both founded
and run Musubi Dojo, a full time Aikido dojo in Claremont
California (across the porch from Aiki.com). Please visit.
Susan
Perry and Ronald Rubin are also the creators of Arete Press,
Musubi Dojo and
Aiko Institute.
Note
from Susan Perry,
Although
aiki.com is devoid any editorial content right now, we hope
that you will find our services and products
to be of use. We are still dedicated to offering high quality
service and products.
Right
now getting the basic aiki.com services to work properly
has taken most of my time. The advertising
section is just getting up which we hope will support the
efforts of many of you who offer wonderful products for
aikido training. Once this work is up to speed, I will turn
my attention to a more artistic and creative way of using
aiki.com.
For
19 years I enjoyed bringing you Aikido Today Magazine. My
husband Ron helped me even though he had a full time job
teaching at a local college. We wanted to open people to
the larger world of Aikido as we ourselves were learning
about it. Aikido Today Magazine was great fun and dear to
my heart. But it also was an extremely laborsome project
for Ron and me. When it seemed that people were wise to
the larger picture ( it's much easier with a tool like the
internet) it seemed we could claim a success and relax a
little bit. I have heard from many of you and appreciate
your gratitude and appreciation of the offerings of ATM.
Without the tremendous work of publishing six magazines
a year, I want to begin to create other products - products
which are not as binding as ATM! So please visit us often
to see what's new. If you'd like to say hello or make a
suggestion, please email me here.
