While living in Iwama, Japan in 1981, I conducted an interview with one of the few remaining prewar students of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba, a man named Zenzaburo Akazawa. During the course of our conversation, Mr...
Archive - April 2011
Josh GoldO-Sensei’s iriminage from “Budo” book!
The “Iriminage” technique of aikido is considered one of the crowning jewels of the art. Many consider the technique to be an original creation of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba. It is a powerful and...
What does this man have to do with Morihei and Aikido?
A lot it turns out… This man was named Prince Tsunenori Kaya, and he was a member of the collateral branch of the Japanese Royal family. The famous “Budo” technical manual that we often allude to was...
“Aikido and the Universal Spirals,” by Marco Rubatto
“In Misogi no Jo, O-Sensei claimed to perform a “purification” of the mat from “evil spirits” and it is clear that he did that through spiral movements!” In recent times, several scientists, both physicists...