Iwama kihon

There are two useful assumptions to have during Aikido; the assumption of a weapon present and the assumption multiple attackers. This is different from actually dealing with a weapon (e.g. tanken dori) or handling multiple attackers. This is about training with a single unarmed uke without creating an opening for a use of a hidden knife and maintaining awareness in all directions. I believe that both are present in the Iwama kihon training.

New Kumitachi videos

Added five Kumitachi videos with Saito Morihiro and Kenichi Shibata to the youtube channel.

Dead three times

Why is this guy (Neil Blacknell) insists on giving his back to the attacker at 7, 13 and 25 sec. ?

4th dan Aikikai... unbelievable. The stills:

"Traditional Aikido" videos

There are 7 videos in the series:

• Sword techniques part 1
• Sword techniques part 2
• Jo techniques part 1
• Jo techniques part 2
• Body techniques part 1
• Body techniques part 2
• Takemusu Aiki

The playlist URL is here.

What a muppet!

This is from wbdoyle.com:
"Aikido is one of the oldest and most widely-used martial arts forms in the world. It is being taught for centuries as a form of self-defense and protection. It is also a way for people to learn centeredness and balance in their lives."

What causes someone to make categorical statements about something he or she is completely ignorant about?

Here is an extended muppet list: "Aikido is one of the oldest and most widely-used martial arts forms in the world"

Update: the page has changed now to something less outlandish:
"Aikido is the modern Japanese martial art developed between the 1920 to 1960 by Morihei Ueshiba..."

The actual content is not original and is all over the net: "It is the pacifist nature of..."

There are no weapons in Aikido

According to Masatake Fujita there are no weapons in Aikido. Ahem...