Around 1961 when O-Sensei went to Hawaii I was already teaching there. For a time I taught on Mondays and Wednesdays but later it was only on Sundays. I think I stopped teaching there shortly after 0-Sensei passed away...
Archive - February 2003
Josh GoldInterview with Morihiro Saito-Part 1 (1987)
The following interview took place in Rome, Italy on June 24, 1986.
Interview with Noriaki Inoue, Part 2
This is the second installment of an interview with Noriaki Inoue Sensei, Founder of Shin'ei Taido. Inoue Sensei, who is at present 85 years old, is the nephew of Morihei Ueshiba Sensei. Inoue Sensei was deeply...
An Aikido Life, by Gozo Shioda: Part III
Basics are important for anything. Basics are important especially in aikido. I have repeated many times that it is not an exaggeration to say that basics are what aikido is all about. Allow me to talk about these...
Interview with Tokimune Takeda, Part 3 by Stanley Pranin
Sokaku Takeda was a student of Kenkichi Sakakibara and studied Jiki Shinkage-ryu. There was a person called Jirokichi Yamada who taught the sword at Hitotsubashi University. Sokaku was a fellow student of his. In those...
Interview with Noriaki Inoue, Part 1
I was born in Wakayama Prefecture in 1902 and brought up there. At the age of 15 I came to know of the Omoto religion and went to Kameoka at 19 to study under Master Onisaburo Deguchi. Since then, basing myself of the...
Cultivating a Martial Spirit by Stanley Pranin
“There is no real way to rank the arts in some hierarchical order of efficacy because no objective standard can be devised to measure their relative merits.” Everyone beginning aikido practice is motivated...