In the Aikikai system, today’s world of aikido bears the stamp of Second Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba more than any other person. There is no other figure who has been more influential, not even the Founder Morihei...
Archive - March 2016
Josh GoldHow Safe is Your Training? by Josh Gold
“Improving safety without compromising the integrity of training!” Every year, Ikazuchi Dojo compiles operating metrics to get a numerical snapshot of the dojo. We are fortunate to have enough aikido...
“Winning in the mind of the opponent is the highest strategy” by Charles Warren
“The best aikido is where the other guy changes his mind and leaves before much of anything happens.” The following comment by Charles Warren was submitted in reply to yesterday’s blog: “Reality-based”...
“Reality-based” Martial Arts Not So Reality-based? by Wayne Muromoto
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” — Mike Tyson I’ve taken swipes at traditional martial arts systems in the past, but I’ve done it out of concerned love. It’s like an intervention to try...
A minefield of falsehoods and omissions… You have been hoodwinked!” by Stanley Pranin
“Official” aikido history has been shaped primarily by the Ueshiba family, particularly by Second Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba. This has been achieved through the publication of a long series of technical books...
“Common Misconceptions about Aikido History,” by Stanley Pranin
Have you heard or read any of these? I began the publication of Aiki News in 1974 centered on translations of a series of Japanese newspaper articles on Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba. From this modest beginning, I...
Etiquette and the Preservation of Well-being by Stanley Pranin
Aikido Journal #113 (1998) Last month I attended a Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu seminar conducted by Katsuyuki Kondo Sensei in Baltimore, Maryland. In the course of his instruction, Kondo Sensei made a statement that struck me...