First impressions on watching an aikido demonstration It all started when I was 16 years old and a high school senior in San Pedro, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The year was 1962, and apart from a few...
Archive - September 2016
Interview with Morihei Ueshiba and Kisshomaru Ueshiba
This interview, conducted by two unnamed newspapermen, appeared in the Japanese-language book “Aikido” by Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Tokyo, Kowado, 1957, pages 198-219. It was translated from the Japanese by Stanley Pranin and...
Knife Party
Seeking martial artists familiar with a variety of weapons, mocap systems, and performance movement, we enlisted Jeff Imada and Lauren Kim to assist with Project Orion – the next step on our path to building...
Knife defenses: Death by Disarm
One of our ongoing R&D initiatives is to explore the design space around aikido-based techniques and training methods to respond to a knife attack (tanto-dori). Tanto-dori has been an integral, but not heavily...