Aiki Ken Videos

Here’s a collection of visual guides of some of the Aiki Ken techniques and practices for beginners. Ken Suburi  ...

Takemusu Aiki Aikido Short Documentary

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...

How To Fold Your Hakama

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!...

Aikido Video Evening at City Dojo

Takayasu Sensei would like to have a video evening this Friday, 12 February 2010 at 6:00pm. He would like to show us a movie of Hirosawa Sensei, who was a Shihandai (can conduct a class on behalf of a Shihan) while the late Saito Sensei was running the Iwama Dojo on...

First Student

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...