Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese schoolgirls, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he wasn't fit and he wasn't brave.
Nippon Kan was established in 1980 as a center for Denver residents to experience Japanese culture. The center has since served more than 6,000 students wit hits variety of classes, but its core is still Aikido.
Aikido has often been referred to as the gentleman's fighting art; its essence lies partly in its sophisticated style and particularly in its intrinsic motivations.
If you're interested in truly effective self-defense, this is the book for you. Grandmaster Bennett will teach you how to redirect attacks and gain the advantage over your opponent.
Aikido Talks contains interviews with prominent American Aikido students and teachers, who describe their experiences with Aikido's legendary founder, discuss Aikido's philosophy
Training with the Master addresses all these questions, centering around 157 photographs of unrivaled quality, shot when O'Sensei was eighty-four years old and at the peak of his career as a teacher, martial artists, and spiritual seeker
"The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido is a necessary book, both timely and well written. William Gleason's book is the first to explain the spiritual teachings of the founder in detail.
After years of endless devotion to the martial traditions of Japan, Morihei Ueshiba developed Aikido, drawing on the rich heritage of Japan's fighting arts and refining them into a wholly new system.
For the first time in English, The Essence of Aikido presents the profound philosophy of Aikido in Morihei's own words, disclosing many of the arcane secrets of Aikido's aims and methods.
"Attack-tics" is a system of conflict resolution based on the principles of aikido, the non-violent martial art Morihei Ueshiba created after World War II.
All the major aspects of Aikido are clearly laid out in this beautiful beginner's guide to Aikido. Illustrated with over 90 photographs and using a clever 'page per topic' format,
Exciting and high-energy, Aikido keeps growing in popu-larity. This martial art uses an irresistible and challenging mix of flexibility, speed, and agility.
Morihei Ueshiba (1883 - 1969) drew on his extensive martial art experience, then tempered these traditional Japanese fighting techniques with a spiritual dimension to create the modern defensive martial arts of aikido
The Daitoryu is a brutally effective fighting method thought to have been first developed more than a thousand years ago by members of the Japanese imperial family.
Found by Ueshiba Morihei, also know as O'Sensei (Great Teacher), Aikido developed as a pure form of Budo (Martial Way), drawing upon aspects of many of the older disciplines of Japan.