Free Aiki weapons workshop offered to any club in south west England.
Offered simply from the love of Aikido. Just ask - while teacher still lives - as not available after!
Possibly inspiring bukiwaza class for your club - no fee, no strings.
Can you make the Jo or ken do what you want? Do you feel powerful when training with weapons?
If you think you can do both these things, you might want to reconsider what you are doing.
If you can feel your own power, then it must be returning to you and can therefore be used against you.
If you are not sensitive enough to harmonise with the weapons, and become 'one' with them . . . that is, a partnership not a dictatorship, then how can weapons be correctly training the body for Aikido -
always a principle - the weapons are there to change your body.
Then we have the question. How?
Free workshop to 'effortless power' . . . enquire within, what have you got to lose?
Offered simply from the love of Aikido. Just ask - while teacher still lives - as not available after!
Possibly inspiring bukiwaza class for your club - no fee, no strings.
Can you make the Jo or ken do what you want? Do you feel powerful when training with weapons?
If you think you can do both these things, you might want to reconsider what you are doing.
If you can feel your own power, then it must be returning to you and can therefore be used against you.
If you are not sensitive enough to harmonise with the weapons, and become 'one' with them . . . that is, a partnership not a dictatorship, then how can weapons be correctly training the body for Aikido -
always a principle - the weapons are there to change your body.
Then we have the question. How?
Free workshop to 'effortless power' . . . enquire within, what have you got to lose?
See more on events page.
Aikijo, (Aiki Jo, Aiki-Jo),
harmony of spirit with Jo,
the Japanese short staff.
Aikido weapons class in North Devon.
Aiki Jo Bideford.
Aiki weapons training.
(Jo and Ken, short staff and wooden sword,
also looking at tachi dori, Jo nage, Jo dori)
taught by Richard Small in Bideford, Devon, UK,
principle based teaching.
harmony of spirit with Jo,
the Japanese short staff.
Aikido weapons class in North Devon.
Aiki Jo Bideford.
Aiki weapons training.
(Jo and Ken, short staff and wooden sword,
also looking at tachi dori, Jo nage, Jo dori)
taught by Richard Small in Bideford, Devon, UK,
principle based teaching.
Much gratitude to the photographer and promulgator of these fine images.
Aiki weapons have been an integral part of Aikido
from the beginning. Some would say, a foundation of the art.
There are visible differences in the aiki weapons from styles that developed from various sword schools.
They are often not the same, neither have they the same purpose.
Some Jo kata resembles spear practice more than it does Jo.
Perhaps the Bo and spear techniques were added and applied to the Jo merely for convenience. I don't know.
It makes us consider the katas' origins.
Nuances of use may be different but
both are valuable in our search for harmony.
The following pages serve to reinforce an understanding of Aiki weapons and give purpose to teaching them as a separate art. By which path we can learn to co-ordinate and energetically connect our whole body as one. . . one with that of the universal.
We use techniques and methods handed down by the late Saito Sensei 9th Dan to my own teacher,
Sensei Tony Sargeant 6th Dan Aikikai and adviser to TIA Europe.
Class teaching is also a blend of many years Tai Chi study, bringing some interesting and useful mind and body principles from the 'internal' arts to use in Jo training and practice. What is Ki if not Chi?
Increasingly we find valuable links with the ki principles taught by Koichi Tohei and still taught by selected teachers who made the effort to study meaningfully.
'Invest in yourself. . . and keep the change!'
It is the explorer, the adventurer, that most enjoys discovery. . . so be one.
Martial Arts in Bideford.
Aikido and weapons.
Aikido and weapons.
Cambridge, Howard Mallet Club. A visit by Sensei Pat Hendricks in the 1980s.
Experience a martial art for yourself and find out who you really are, for that is their purpose.
Aiki Jo Bideford is an affiliate member of this association
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registered with Aiki Extensions
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and a participating dojo in Aiki Peace Week
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Registered instructor with this association
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In the shadow and memory of Stanley Pranin.
Our world of Aikido would not exist today without all
he achieved to keep the faith and the truth.
May his journey continue in peace.
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“Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished. Motions and changes are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of the ages.
In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things that hurry by on which a man would set a high price?”
Marcus Aurelius
“Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished. Motions and changes are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of the ages.
In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things that hurry by on which a man would set a high price?”
Marcus Aurelius
In light of the above, be warned never to think you have arrived.
The place you are going to, is ever changing.
The place you are going to, is ever changing.
“. . . in the hands of a serious student, it (weapon) is a pathway and
a prayer towards balance and peace.”
from my good friend Terry, (Karate 4th Dan)
