It seems incredibly obvious, yet I continually come across people who appear unable to tell the difference between training and fighting. Some insist, for instance, that you should keep your eyes fixed on your partner...
Archive - December 2002
Josh GoldInterview with Shizuo Imaizumi: The Last Generation Under O-Sensei, Part 2 by Stanley Pranin and Marc Abrams
Shizuo Imaizumi was among the last generation of students of the Founder Morihei Ueshiba. He later left the Aikikai to join the Ki Society of Koichi Tohei, 10th dan. Imaizumi is now independent and has taught aikido in...
Ole Kingston Jensen: Aiki–A Never Ending Journey
Ole Kingston Jensen has been training in the Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Roppokai for over 16 years. He is the most senior non-Tokyo member of the Roppokai, as well as the highest ranking non-Japanese member. He was recently...
Dojo as a Cultural Center, Part II
When my sons attended the Canadian Academy international school in Kobe, Japan, their Japanese language teacher took her classes to the next city to see the world’s most flamboyant theater, kabuki. The kids fell...
Dojo as a Cultural Center, Part I
In summer, 1951, Tai Chi was introduced for the first time in New York to non-Orientals by Li Chi Chao, graceful warrior and professional modern dancer. This was at the Asia Institute, where I was deputy director. There...
Yasuaki Deguchi: The Omoto Religion and Aikido (02)
My grandparents were married on New Year’s Day of the old calendar in 1900. Onisaburo was thirty years old, and Sumi was eighteen. The Omoto sect was still in its infancy, and Onisaburo’s position within it...
Yasuaki Deguchi: The Omoto Religion and Aikido (01)
Aiki News is pleased to present this first installment of our exclusive on the Omoto religion. One of Japan’s foremost “new religions,” the Omoto sect has had a turbulent and fascinating history. More...
Shinichi Suzuki Sensei: Head Instructor, Maui Ki-Aikido
Shin'ichi Suzuki was born in 1917 in the small Central Maui town of Waikapu, the first in a family of ten children. He is a “nisei”, which means that he is of Japanese ancestry, but was born in Hawaii as the...
Silent Pioneer: Shuji Maruyama Sensei, Kokikai Founder by Gaku Homma
>Shuji Maruyama Sensei was on his way once again, this time to Seattle. We drove to the airport in the early morning light. The car was silent as he looked out the window, studying the passing scenery. Softly, almost to...
Interview with Koichi Tohei (4)
The following interview with Koichi Tohei Sensei, 10th-dan head of the Ki Society, took place on March 14, 1996 at the Ki Society Headquarters in Tokyo.