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Gurkan Yeniceri

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Started growing food around 2007. Took a PDC in 2016. Wrote a cheesemaking book in 2009, a beekeeping book in 2015 and an aquaponics book in 2016. I am giving workshops on these subjects in Canberra.
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Richard Hanson wrote:Great. I practice, Kajukenbo. The root of MMA. Welcome aboard.





Wish you the best Grass Hopper.



Hey Richard, Kajukenbo was the first martial art I practised from 1990 to 1998, and I have a black belt.  I was so close to going to Hawaii for a seminar and seeing Adriano sensei in the flesh, but I couldn't get the funds together.
7 months ago

Paul Fookes wrote:
Look forward to seeing your set up next time we are in ACT
Cheers



Be my guest Paul. Let me DM you my mobile.
7 months ago
Integrating Aikido and Permaculture into my daily routine has been the cornerstone of my lifestyle. These two doctrines have transformed my life, both physically and mentally. Practising Aikido taught me to approach life with a peaceful and centred mindset, while Permaculture taught me to cultivate a harmonious relationship with nature. These practices have empowered me to live a fulfilling and sustainable lifestyle.

Aikido is the most effective martial art for implementing permaculture practices. With its emphasis on blending with and redirecting the energy of one's opponent, Aikido embodies the principles of harmony and cooperation essential to Permaculture's success. By utilising the techniques and philosophy of Aikido, we can work with forces of nature rather than against it, creating sustainable and regenerative systems that benefit both ourselves and the environment.

In Aikido, we focus on staying in the present moment and utilising the opponent's force to redirect their attack beneficially. Sometimes, we even increase their momentum to make them move faster. As Aikido practitioners, we use the force of the attack to push ourselves out of harm's way and apply a touch from the side to amplify the momentum. Techniques like Irimi Nage or Kote Gaeshi are excellent examples.

We utilise a fulcrum system to leverage the attacker's weight and redirect their momentum, rendering them harmless and ensuring mutual safety. Techniques like Koshi Nage or Kokyu Nage are perfect to explain the fulcrum.

Jiyu Waza training demands a defender to act swiftly as attackers strike from various directions. The defender must be able to divert the attack's force towards another attacker to block their entry. You must stay focused and continuously hone your skills based on the attackers. When implementing Permaculture in nature, observing natural forces and patterns is vital to amplify, control, divert, reuse, or eliminate them as needed.

At weapon practice using wooden swords, we learn how to move our body using foot movements and shift the weight towards the most open side of the attacker. At the same time, we learn to hold the sword properly. All the empty-handed techniques we learned can easily be applied when holding the sword. As we practice daily, the weapon becomes an inseparable extension of the body and moves effortlessly for slicing. Samurai swords do not use push cuts. It slices as it moves with a slight outward push to deepen the cut. It leaves a long and deep cut. It is so sharp that the attacker doesn't even realise it is being cut until it is too late. A Samurai sword is a tool produced using techniques we still need to understand today. It is a way of life, looked after, protected, and passed down from generation to generation, just like the permaculture training. Permaculture training allows you to observe and use the forces as you see fit. Permaculture teaches you a model and gives you tools to implement that model using your local resources, fauna, flora, climate and requirements regardless of scale. A simple and minuscule action now can prevent a vast negative outcome later. You can take small steps for yourself, which will ripple through time, stacking others learning from you. You can implement marginal solutions to long-standing problems to solve them once and for all. No matter your impact, its effect will increase in time if it is positive.

Implementing Permaculture will ensure we leave our planet in a better state than we found it. We can positively impact the Earth's condition for future generations by taking action now. The permaculture book contains six hundred pages of wisdom to utilise daily. It is the sharpest sword, but you must practice and learn to use it first. The forces of nature will teach you how to use this sword. Being a permaculture warrior in the garden is better than being a conventional farmer on the battleground.

Let's see who studies martial arts and your opinions on its applicability to permaculture.
7 months ago
G'day, lovely people. This is Gürkan from Canberra. We just established a new website for teaching permaculture in Canberra. Please check it out if you live in the area. https://peas-permaculture.com/peas
 
7 months ago
No, I actually watched the video but I can't find it right now.
9 months ago
I've heard this from Bill Mollison on a video but I can't find the video now. Does anybody know this video?
9 months ago

Melody KirkWagner wrote:I don't know anything about these people and I'm not sure if it's a good source, but I thought it was interesting:

https://zipgrow.com/7-facts-that-will-make-you-rethink-the-sterility-of-hydroponics/



There is no link to the research. I've found Sarah Taber on twitter and even her entry has a broken link. It seems like Bright Agro Tech funded the research judging by her twitter entry. Google does not return anything either.
2 years ago
Replace your phone with Samsung Note 20 or higher version. Their video quality is really good. Also, it is a phone :-) two birds with one phone.
2 years ago
I was a #ClimateChangeRefugee for the 2020 January and February. Fortunately, we escaped from fires in Australia. The good thing was we were away from the smoke in Australia, so my kids' lungs are clean at the moment. Inhaling PM2 and PM2.5 would have been detrimental to their health as the particles travelling into the bloodstream and marrow in bones. Unfortunately, I lost my job due to being away unexpectedly, but that was expected; I gave that freedom to my boss on my first communication with them.
Now we have Covid-19, and it is spreading fast. Leaving aside its rate of casualties and spreading ability against other pandemics, I wouldn't put my family at risk and will take every precaution I can.
Australian society's resiliency is very low against these kinds of crisis. I have seen and experienced this a lot. We are not like Cuba or Eastern European countries that have seen the worst. This fragility is very concerning, as we have seen on the incredible #ToiletPaperEmergency. This shows that Australians basically don't know what to do in case of a crisis.
This fragility of Australian society is really worrying me as the new generation is growing up even less resilient. The new generation is not experiencing any valuable lessons to learn resiliency.
Learning resiliency is not easy. You have to either experience the worst of the worst or a wise teacher teach you this. I guess the profession of Life Coaching born out of this necessity. In Asian and Middle Eastern countries, the life coaches are your parents, boss, teachers, friends, and neighbours. You learn life by interacting with wiser and experienced people you respect. Respect to elders and teachers imprinted into our brains by our parents. In Western countries, relationships are reduced to nothing. You have to be politically correct and try not to offend anyone; you can't really teach life to your neighbour's kids. You would be labelled as the angry neighbour on the street or the bad father in the family.
In conclusion, yes, I want the best for my kids, but at the same time, I want them to learn resiliency. But, unfortunately, I don't know how to teach them resiliency as I don't have the support of the robust community I was once lived in. There are no grannies and grandpas, uncles or aunts around us. No wise teachers or elderly neighbours that we communicate openly.
One thing I can do is to prepare them for what is coming. Gardening and house chores are one thing I can teach. But how am I going to make these things interesting?  At the moment, homework and sports are taking most of their time. I think I have to make time and get them into the garden.

I hope my kids' life turn out happy and resilient; I will try my best.

3 years ago
For a very cold climate, I would advise Langstroth or Warre with at least 2" thick walls and a good insulating roof.

Perone would be too big for them to heat
4 years ago