An interesting perspective on kiai and audio vs. visual perception times from Tom Collings, a long time colleague of Stanley Pranin and veteran aikidoka. Tom began martial arts training with karate in the 1960s and...
Category - Technical
Josh Gold
Knife defenses: Death by Disarm
One of our ongoing R&D initiatives is to explore the design space around aikido-based techniques and training methods to respond to a knife attack (tanto-dori). Tanto-dori has been an integral, but not heavily...
Using Koichi Tohei’s Model as a Baseline by Mike Sigman
“Tohei has shown substantive use of physically-verifiable aspects of ki in his techniques since well before he left Hombu Dojo as the Chief Instructor.” One of the big problems with many of the Aikido...
