Samurai Sister
Lena / Samurai SisterEssays about martial arts training, identity, and the body. Reflections on movement, little disasters, and who we become in the process.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 20 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 19 days ago |
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The lives we inherit
During my research on samurai history last year, I came across a few tragic figures, that through their misfortune, bad decisions and loss of agency helped shape the medieval Japan more than many of the men that history remembers as its vic...
Waaait for it!
“If you’re not ready to get hit, you’re not ready to engage,” my sensei says, walking by, after I stepped too early and too far out of the way of an attack with a jo, the staff-like training weapon we use in Aikido. It’s just a brief commen...
What the mirror holds
The longer I look at myself in the mirror, the stranger I appear. Almost unfamiliar. The eyes, the small freckles, the wrinkles… I know all of it intimately. But the whole face seems as though I am seeing it for the first time. It becomes l...
When the immovable mind moves
[Thank you 🫶 Danny Deam from Fudoshin Goshindo Gendai Budo for the wonderful hoodie!]
You think you handle the tough stuff in life well, until, some random Thursday evening at the boxing gym, you notice that you have totally had enoug...
A Time Capsule in Frankfurt
I got stuck writing my book for a few days - maybe even weeks, to be honest - and started seriously doubting my own writing skills. Instead of staring at a blank screen, I decided to write something else today: just a flow of consciousness....
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This is Lena. I write about movement, identity, Aikido, boxing, and the little disasters that make me better at it.
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