One of the few ladies in the Makotokai who I have known since she was a child. A student to be proud of. Happy birthday Zora looking forward to...
last week I lost a true friend, Bill Curry who had been training with me for the past twenty odd years. Affectionately christened "the godfather"...
Hi Hiroji. Most of my art work is given away as gifts but I do have some in the chaos that I call my den. Below is one of my own favourites,...
The bokken often thought of as a "replica "sword is a weapon in it's own right.Many thousands of suburi (solo cuts) must be made to become...
Coming from a traditional martial arts background I feel that the traditional martial arts are often misrepresented and misunderstood. Tradition...
HITO EMI The first "principle" of aikido is DO NOT GET HIT. The art is performed from sankaku ho a triangular kamae (there are no stances in...
Having trained in traditional aikido and TJM for more than forty years I have had the privilage of seeing many aikido masters. ALL have been...
In aiki ken all of the movements are executed from sankaku ho (triangular posture) Is this common in western swordsmanship. My main interest in...
SHIHAN CHIBA KAZUO Although aikido was introduced to Britain by Abe Kenshiro in the late fifties early sixties it was the appearance in 1966 of...
Regarding ATEMI IS UN-AIKI a comment made to me. See photo. O Sensei looks to be in his seventies or early eighties and that is metsubishi he is...
Having had the benefit of seeing aikido when it first came out of Japan late 50s early 60s and seeing it today I think I may be able to address...
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