Comments on: Grady Lane Sensei

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:45:55 +0000

Hey, Brandon!

It was good to see you at the seminar recently. How’s training going for you?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:21:25 +0000

Sensei is a great person and a good friend. the type of friend that you only find once in a blue moon.

He has a vast knowlege of everything aikido. And his technique is awsome. It’s a honor to train under his instruction.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:54:39 +0000

You’re awesome, MM!

Group hug…

By: MM

MM — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:46:27 +0000

I love Lane Sensei’s classes. The last few seminars I’ve went to with him he’s taught last. I always try to pace myself to so I have enough energy for the last class at the seminar when he’s teaching. I get better with every class a little bit. It’s a gradual chipping away at my “suckiness” in Aikido. lol

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:23:14 +0000

I second that. One of the nicest people anywhere.

By: Dichotomy

Dichotomy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:06:36 +0000

Grady Sensei also is one of the nicest people off the mat. If you ever find yourself in a seminar he is attending or at his dojo, he always goes out of his way to make you feel welcome.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:56:29 +0000

True story:

I was at a seminar in Sand Drift, several years ago. Lane Sensei was teaching, as were several other instructors. Which meant I had the good luck to train with Sensei during the seminar.

The attack was yokomenuchi, and I was completely befuddled, because everytime I raised to strike, Sensei would match my strike, at exactly the same moment.

And then it hit me. (Literally, in this case!)

Dee always emphasizes mirroring uke’s strike. When uke raises his arm for shomenuchi, say, then nage raises his arm also.

But it took that lesson with Lane Sensei to really hammer that point home. Now you know why when I teach I always emphasize mutual strikes, especially in yokomenuchi.