Nature abhors a vacuum and is always generating imbalance so there can be interaction. Interaction is life and relationship. It generates energy and light. Now, I don’t personally like reducing things to a formula...
Archive - January 2012
Josh GoldMagazine: Aikido Journal Number 108, 1996, Seigo Yamaguchi Memorial Issue
This jam-packed issue of Aikido Journal featuring a tribute to the late Seigo Yamaguchi Sensei, 9th dan, following his passing in 1996. Read the touching eulogy written by Second Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba. Aikido Journal...
Historical photo: Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei and Morihiro Saito at Self-Defense Force demo c. 1955
“Venturing out to demonstrate Aikido during the early years of the art” We have uploaded three unpublished photos from the personal collection of Morihiro Saito taken c. 1955. Morihei is aged 71 years and...
Stanley Pranin’s “The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido” available as PDF download
Stanley Pranin’s 1989 book titled “The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido” is now available for download by all Aikido Journal readers. This book, long out of print, is a one-of-a-kind aikido reference...
The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido by Stanley Pranin (download)
Stanley Pranin’s 1989 book titled “The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido” is now available for download by paid subscribers of the Aikido Journal Members Site. This book, long out of print, is a one-of...
“Aiki Principles, are they realistic?,” by Francis Takahashi
Are the Aiki Principles, the exalted foundation for the Founder’s Aikido, and the very same ones which his direct followers claimed to have formed the structure and rationale for his Aikido, realistically based on a...
“Hisa Takuma’s ‘Soden’: Preservation and Dissemination,” by Stanley Pranin
Above is a black and white scan of a sample page from Takuma Hisa’s famous “Soden” collection of technical photos of Aiki Budo and Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu taken from around 1933 through 1939. These...
Video: Frank Doran Sensei, 7th dan, instructs at Aiki Expo 2002
Frank Doran Sensei, 7th dan, is one of the founding fathers of aikido in Northern California. He began training in 1959 in San Diego, California under Tokuji Hirata, an early student of Koichi Tohei in Hawaii. Doran...
The Hara – Our Second Brain?
I just ran across this on the internet. It looked somewhat familiar. I then realised that I recognised it because it emerged from my pen (keyboard in this case) and was originally posted about 2006, then was lost...
Video: Pat Hendricks teaches at Aiki Expo 2002
“Congratulations to Pat Hendricks Sensei on her recent promotion to 7th dan!” Pat Hendricks started Aikido in 1974 with Stanley Pranin and Mary Heiny. In 1977, she moved to Iwama, Japan, to study with Saito...