In this third of a four-part series, we pick up our story at the time I was inducted into the U.S. army in October 1969 after having spent a summer practicing aikido in Tokyo. Read the second part here. Entering the U.S...
Archive - November 2002
Josh GoldStanley Pranin’s Autobiography: Years 1978-1990, Part IV
In this fourth and final part of the series, we end our story on the move to a bilingual publication, traveling with Morihiro Saito, and the future of Aiki News. Read the third part here. Changeover to a bilingual...
Interview with Pat Hendricks, Bernice Tom, and Danielle Molles Evans: Californian Women Instructors, Part 2
We continue with Part 2 of our interview with three outstanding California aikido instructors, Bernice Tom of Sunset Cliffs Aikido, Danielle Evans of Aikido of Monterey, and Pat Hendricks of Aikido of San Leandro, who...
Interview with Morihiro Saito (1978)
On September 10, in the lingering summer heat, the AIKI NEWS staff visited Morihiro Saito Shihan, head of the Aikikai Ibaraki Dojo and caretaker of the Aiki Shrine at Iwama, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, the residence of O...
Face to Face with Sokaku Takeda
The article below was reprinted with the kind permission of Tokimune Takeda Sensei, Headmaster of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo and the son of Sokaku Takeda Sensei. In 1929, Navy Admiral Isamu Takeshita began studying Daito-ryu...
O-Sensei Anecdotes
The following two anecdotes are from a French-language book written by George Ohsawa, who introduced the philosophy and practice of the Zen macrobiotic system (In/Yo as applied to nutrition, health, and happiness) to...
The Case of the Reluctant Uke
For those of us not congenitally attracted to violence, aikido training sometimes presents problems that are difficult to ignore. They come in human form and in distinct personality types. Amongst these is the reluctant...
Interview with Tom Walker
My first recollections are, at three-and-a-half years of age, of fighting for my breath because I had bronchial asthma. I was always the runt in grade school, because with my condition, I was much smaller than the other...
Interview with Thomas Makiyama Part Two
I’ve been a student of aikido (Aikikai) for the past seven years and, to be honest, find getting my seika tanden consistently working in the way that many teachers suggest seems to me impossible. This is one of...
Interview with Yukio Utada by Jonathan Hollin
As a teenager I had studied judo and karate but neither captured my spirit. I had heard of aikido and wanted to try it. So, after graduating from high school, I made my way to the Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo which my brother...