The not-so-soft traditional Aikido

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...

Sword Training for Aikido, and other Arts

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...

Is O-Sensei really the father of modern Aikido?

Editorial by Stanley Pranin taken from Aiki Journal #109 After practicing and researching aikido for a number of years I gradually arrived at a hypothesis that went against conventional wisdom and the testimonies of numerous shihan who claimed to have spent long years...