Cool entry from Sode dori

From Daito-Ryu "as close as it gets to the founder's pre war Aikido" Takumakai

Fierce

In this video Saito Morihiro sensei does just one thing - Irirmi. For just under two minutes. And his is utterly fierce. The video was shot by Stanley Pranin of Aikido Journal. The ukes are Bruce Klickstein and Shigemi Inagaki. Towards the end Inagaki runs into some trouble with his ukemi (lands on his shoulder) and rolls off the mat. Klickstein's ukemi is wonderful throughout.

Yoshinkan Kancho

A video fragment of a lecture in which Stanley Pranin describes how Saito Sensei was offered to lead the Yoshinkan once Shioda Sensei passed away. This from the DVD Budo.

Some more details were added here.

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..."