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 no use after!
Inspiring bukiwaza class for your club - no fee, no strings.
Offered simply from the love of Aikido. Just ask - while teacher still lives - as no use after!
Inspiring bukiwaza class for your club - no fee, no strings.
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)
taught by Richard Small in Bideford, Devon, UK,
predominantly influenced by Iwama Style,
principle based teaching.
the Japanese short staff.
Aikido weapons class in North Devon.
Aiki Jo Bideford.
Aiki weapons training.
(Jo and Ken, short staff and wooden sword)
taught by Richard Small in Bideford, Devon, UK,
predominantly influenced by Iwama Style,
principle based teaching.
An excellent and informative article on the 10 kumijo by Sensei Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros ...
on Well Springs newsletter for the new year HERE
on Well Springs newsletter for the new year HERE
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.
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 teacher, Sensei Tony Sargeant 6th Dan Aikikai and Co founder of 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 links with the principles taught by Koichi Tohei
'Invest in yourself. . . and keep the change!'
We use techniques and methods handed down by the late Saito Sensei 9th Dan to my teacher, Sensei Tony Sargeant 6th Dan Aikikai and Co founder of 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 links with the principles taught by Koichi Tohei
'Invest in yourself. . . and keep the change!'
This link takes you to some general ideas on self defence; mainly planning, awareness, instincts etc
There's nothing spectacular in it, if anything, good self defence is mundane and just plain common sense
Self Defence.
There's nothing spectacular in it, if anything, good self defence is mundane and just plain common sense
Self Defence.
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, to find out who you really are.
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There's more to Aikido than technique, in fact Aikido transcends technique. If you'd like to hear a short piece of flute music while you read this page, then the controls are there for you. Happy listening.
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Aiki Jo Bideford is a Member of this association
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and a participating dojo in Aiki Peace Week
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In 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
(on weapons)
“. . . in the hands of a serious student, it is a pathway and
a prayer towards balance and peace.”
from my good friend Terry, (Karate 4th Dan)
Renewed for 2018/19
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