The following is an excerpt from the newly released Aikido Pioneers: Postwar Era, which contains in person accounts and insights with many of the closest post-WWII students of the founder of aikido, including Morihiro...
Archive - November 2023
A Short Story From Yoshimitsu Yamada: Training in a Storm
The following short story was told to Aikido Journal by the late Yoshimitsu Yamada Sensei as a follow up to our Spring 2022 interview with him. During the interview, we asked him if he had any short stories about...
Saotome Sensei: Three Types of Aiki by Guy Hagen
The following was contributed by Guy Hagen Sensei, a student of Mitsugi Saotome Sensei and a Founder and Head Instructor of Aikido Chuseikan, in Tampa Bay, Florida. During the first part of Saotome Sensei’s 2023 visit...