A few weeks ago I wrote an article that was widely read in the aikido community: Are you an unwitting participant in the demise of Aikido?. It was very painful for me to write those words since my entire adult life has...
Archive - November 2015
Koichi Tohei’s 1974 Letter of Resignation from the Aikikai Hombu Dojo
In May, 1974, an event occurred that shook the roots of the aikido world to its very foundations. It was then that Koichi Tohei, the chief instructor of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, resigned from his post and left the...