Video: Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu: “Do not grab in this way because it is not effective!”
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Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu was the jujutsu art learned by Morihei Ueshiba as a young man from Sokaku Takeda. Most of aikido techniques derive from this sophisticated jujutsu system. The extent of the historical connection between Daito-ryu and aikido has been minimized due to historical factors such as the dispute leading to a parting of the ways between these two martial arts masters…
Video: Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu: “The Devil is in the Details!”
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Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu was the jujutsu art learned by Morihei Ueshiba as a young man from Sokaku Takeda. Most of aikido techniques derive from this sophisticated jujutsu system. The extent of the historical connection between Daito-ryu and aikido has been minimized due to historical factors such as the dispute leading to a parting of the ways between these two martial arts masters…
Video: Katsuyuki Kondo Sensei: “Now applying Aiki to take the balance of two attackers prior to a throw.”
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I asked how they applied the body techniques to the ken, but no one showed me. Since there was nothing to be done about the situation, I began practicing the ken in 1955 soon after I began Aikido training. What else could I do? Nobody taught me! O-Sensei did sword techniques at lightning speed and would say, “That’s how you do it,” and then disappeared from the dojo. I tried in vain to understand what he was doing and the next moment he was gone.
Internal Energy at work! Akira Hino prepares for a demonstration in France (2009)
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Akira Hino has shown me the most significant example of human awareness that I have ever witnessed. He has mastered a degree of perceptual unity so profoundly fundamental, that is almost incomprehensible to our contemporary sensibilities…”
Popular! Video: Morihiro Saito teaches Ushiro Eridori Techniques
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An excellent compilation of seminar techniques including advanced katatedori techniques, and a lengthy series of ushiro eridori techniques. Videos such as these highlight Saito Sensei’s skilled pedagogy and encyclopedic knowledge of aikido technique. Morihiro Saito was one of the closest and talented of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba’s students in the postwar period…
Video: Katsuyuki Kondo Sensei: “Completion of the two-attacker throw. Note the “zanshin,” or abiding mind of Kondo Sensei reflected in his stance at the conclusion of the technique.”
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I asked how they applied the body techniques to the ken, but no one showed me. Since there was nothing to be done about the situation, I began practicing the ken in 1955 soon after I began Aikido training. What else could I do? Nobody taught me! O-Sensei did sword techniques at lightning speed and would say, “That’s how you do it,” and then disappeared from the dojo. I tried in vain to understand what he was doing and the next moment he was gone.
Video: “Katsuyuki Kondo Sensei, Menkyo Kaiden holder, executes the beginning of ippondori to break uke’s balance”
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I asked how they applied the body techniques to the ken, but no one showed me. Since there was nothing to be done about the situation, I began practicing the ken in 1955 soon after I began Aikido training. What else could I do? Nobody taught me! O-Sensei did sword techniques at lightning speed and would say, “That’s how you do it,” and then disappeared from the dojo. I tried in vain to understand what he was doing and the next moment he was gone.
Video: “Daito-ryu includes both hard and soft styles… Do you know the differences?”
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This video contains highlights of an historically important Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu demonstration that took place at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in 1992. This event commemorated the 50th anniversary of the passing of Sokaku Takeda. The demonstration was hosted by the Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu organization of Katsuyuki Kondo Sensei, and also featured other schools of Daito-ryu including the Kodokai, the Takumakai, aikido and kobudo schools…
Video: “Teaching Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu from here forward”
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For my part, together with all of my students I hope to continue pursuing the Daito-ryu tradition left to us by Tokimune Takeda with greater fervor and devotion than ever, and from my position at the edge of the budo world I hope I may continue receiving the teaching, encouragement, and reproof of those from whom I still have so much to learn…
Popular! Video: Tetsuzan Kuroda – The Master Swordsman on BBC
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This is a fascinating video from a BBC documentary that looks at the myths and reality in martial arts showcasing various forms, secret skills, ancient knowledge, and hidden techniques from all over the East. The focus here is on Tetsuzan Kuroda, the headmaster of the martial legacy of the Kuroda family, one of the best known and respected of contemporary Japanese koryu practitioners. He is one of Japan’s finest swordsman, a master of a variety of classical weapons, and an adept in the soft-style Kuroda family jujutsu. Kuroda was a featured participant in Aiki Expo 2003 sponsored by Aikido Journal…
Video: “The secret and oral teachings of Daito-ryu will flow outside and be known to the general public!”
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“If you teach people the true techniques and the next day they leave the school, then all of the secret and oral teachings of Daito-ryu will flow outside of the school and be known to the general public.” He also said, “Out of a thousand pupils, teach the true techniques only to one or two. Make absolutely sure of those you chose, and to them alone teach what is real. There is no need to teach the rest.”
