== Recent Posts ==

  • Iwama: Birthplace of Aikido by Stanley Pranin (0)“The inconspicuous village of Iwama situated in a farming area of Ibaragi Prefecture seems an unlikely candidate for the birthplace of aikido.” Ask even a beginning aikidoka who the founder of aikido is and most will be able to identify Morihei Ueshiba as the originator of the art. This is probably due to the fact that ...
  • “A Tribute to Sadateru Arikawa, 9th dan,” by Stanley Pranin (1) “Arikawa Sensei was talkative, tireless, severe yet cheerful, fearsome on the mat, and fiercely loyal to the Ueshiba family.” On October 11, 2003, the aikido world lost 9th dan Sadateru Arikawa, one of the few remaining giants of the postwar generation of instructors that played a predominant role in the dissemination of the art worldwide. ...
  • The Improbable Launch of My Career as an Aikido Historian by Stanley Pranin (0) “A Long Journey Begins with the First Step…” The veterans among visitors to our websites will know something about the history of Aikido Journal, and its predecessor, Aiki News. Here and there I have described our beginnings, but let me flesh out the story a bit more for you now. The trigger for the research that began ...
  • Interview with Masatake Fujita by Stanley Pranin (0) “O-Sensei didn’t actually “write” the Dobun himself; rather, they were based on some of the talks he gave.” by Stanley Pranin Aikido Journal #120 (2000) Masatake Fujita, 8th dan Aikikai shihan, was born April 21, 1937 in Shinkyo (present-day Changchun) in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. He repatriated to Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1948. Fujita enrolled in Takushoku University in 1956. ...
  • Improvisations: Aiki is not Always Pretty by Ellis Amdur (0)I only have a target to aim for, an ideal of conflict resolution in which peace and knowledge emerge, instead of a further spiral into violence According to the party line in the “soft” martial arts, we lead our opponents in the direction of their intentions and desires; therefore, aikido is nonviolent because we don’t ...

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