Five Minutes with Master Rinjiro Shirata

Can you hear Shirata Sensei giving instruction?

Gozo Shioda 2

Here is a nice video collection of Gozo Shioda Sensei. Enjoy!

Thanks to Stan Pranin & Aikido Journal for hooking us up.

Aikido's Ultimate Technique

“So then, what do you think Aikido’s ultimate technique might be?

 It is the ability to be at peace with your opponent 

by inducing him to abandon his animosity toward you.”

 Gozo Shioda

And his mysterious power moves all things.....

God dwells in the heart of all beings, Arjuna.

 And his mysterious power moves all things. 

~ Bhagavad Gita (18:61)

An idea I think the founder would agree with, do you?

Anita Kohler

Here is a very nice video of Anita Kohler

AIKIDO MANNHEIM / ANITA KÖHLER from VERSAL STUDIOS on Vimeo.
Anita Köhler is a 5th Dan Aikidoka who teaches Aikido in Mannheim, Mainz and Darmstadt / Germany. She started Aikido in the late 80's and since then her passion for it kept her traveling multiple times to France, Japan and China to learn from some of the greatest masters of this beautiful martial art.

Visit her site at
www.aikidomannheim.de

The Purpose of Judo

As an art and a philosophy the ultimate object of Judo is the attainment of

 harmonious unity of opposites in tune with life's realities; in short, 

unity of Man and God or Nature.

 G. Koizumi, 

Foreword Higher Judo, M. Feldenkrais

Classical Aikido Embu at summer school (zomerstage) 2011

The demonstrations at the Embu were great. I will post more as I can.