My best of thanks for your posts. I still have the knowledge of aikikido and am slowly coming fit again. I am working again to my...
Aikido Introducing counterd different weapons etc to change the principles and aikidoka shall have to change is simply pointless. All the...
I trained with most of O Sensei's shihan when aikido was first spread outside of Japan and the emphasis was on hard training with little...
Here are a couple of photos of O Sensei. I was fortunate enough to train with many of his ukes and EVERYONE was agony to be uke for . It is...
Actually many of the original aikido shihans camplained to Mr Steven for his religious taking of aikido and complained of his use of it in his...
Every single weapon I have used in aikido ALL have the same basic major principles only the length of the weapon makes any change and that is in...
Anyone who was involved in studying Aikido will know that Ueshiba and most of the original aikido masters ALL wrote against what John Stevens...
below I have moved aside of the thrust and struck the knife hand aside or intowars him AND smashed him in the face. THEN and only then can I...
The few serious times I had to face the knife I ALWAYS struck him as I continued until his use of the knife was over. Never attempted to grasp...
I consider ki as good fighting spirit. Anyone with good fighting spirit has good ki. Often when we were exhausted during training we would...
If you only use the weapon two or theee times a year that is of no value at all, Escort and come along techniques? Utter nonsense against...
Cut through his centre of balance. After fifty years plus..that is all I think of if I have to fight seriously. That is all I thought when I...
Aikido was ment to be a self defence art for martial artists. Meaning that they should have been martial artists before thay began aikido. The...
Good luck. I had already studued judo for years when I took up aikido. At that time aikido was very hard because most of the shihan had studied...
When I teach..I teach the beginner body escape and alignment against an attack just hard and fast enough to keep him out of his comfort zone....
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