This is a short documentary that explores Takemusu Aiki Aikido, as taught by Takayasu Sensei in Sydney, Australia. Focused on in the documentary is the Takemusu Aiki curriculum and traditions, as preserved by Saito Sensei, as well martial concepts and principles of...
New shodan/black belt? Long time practitioner who has never learned how to properly fold your hakama? Or perhaps just tired of your hakama looking like a garbage bag? 🙂 Fear not as our very own Oscar Mistula, 5th Dan demonstrates how it’s done!...
by Derek Minus I met Takayasu Sensei around June 1976. After 9 years practice, I had left Kyokushinkai Karate – in which I had received 1st dan ranking – to study Taiki Ken (a Japanese form of the Hsing-i-ch’uan style of Wang...
In 1986 the Takemusu Aiki Association invited head of Iwama style Aikido Instructor Morihiro Saito Sensei to Australia for a seminar. Australasian Fighting Arts magazine contributor and World Taiji Boxing Association guru Erle Montaigue had a chance to interview him...
Australasian Fighting Arts Vol.16 No.3 May 1993 Article in the “Cutting Edge” Anthony Karasulas Sensei, Kenjutsu instructor and contributor to Australasian Fighting Arts, invited the Takemusu Aiki Association and other organisatins to give an explanation...