https://aikidoaus.com.au/Recent content on Aikido AustraliaHugoen-auMon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/jason-wotherspoon/Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/jason-wotherspoon/Student of Takayasu Sensei, 3rd Dan, a prolific writer on the martial arts, and the author of much of the writing preserved in this section.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/the-founder-of-aikido/Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/the-founder-of-aikido/Morihei Ueshiba, 1883 to 1969: the life that produced Aikido, followed by the year by year timeline the original site kept alongside it.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/saito-sensei-head-of-iwama-dojo/Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/saito-sensei-head-of-iwama-dojo/Morihiro Saito Sensei, 9th Dan Shihan, keeper of the Aiki-jinja from 1969 to 2002, and what he asked of the students who would carry O-Sensei’s art on.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/takemusu-aiki-association-early-2000s/Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/takemusu-aiki-association-early-2000s/How the association described itself on its own website: non-profit, formed in 1980, presided over by Takayasu Sensei, and newly affiliated with Aikikai Hombu after Saito Sensei’s death.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/first-student/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/first-student/Meeting Takayasu Sensei in Sydney in 1976, and becoming his first student in Australia.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/technical-curriculum-of-iwama-aikido/Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/technical-curriculum-of-iwama-aikido/How the Iwama Aikido syllabus is organised, from the three main groups of technique through to the categories that combine to name more than a thousand techniques.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/tai-jutsu-empty-hand-training/Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/tai-jutsu-empty-hand-training/What empty-hand practice consists of and where its techniques came from, followed by an organisational overview of the attacks, techniques, training methods and levels.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/sword-training-and-etiquette/Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/sword-training-and-etiquette/The bokken used in Takemusu Aiki, why the sword is trained at all, where Aiki-ken came from, and how a sword is carried, drawn, presented and laid down.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aiki-ken-curriculum/Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aiki-ken-curriculum/The Aikido sword curriculum set out in full: the seven suburi and their awase, happo giri, ken awase, ki-musubi-no-tachi, the kumi-tachi with their variations, and tachi-dori.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aiki-jo-stick-training/Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aiki-jo-stick-training/The jo itself and where its techniques may have come from, followed by the full stick curriculum: the twenty suburi, the kata, awase, kumi-jo, jo nage and jo dori.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/ken-tai-jo/Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/ken-tai-jo/Where ken-jo no riai sits in the order of training, and the three awase and ten set patterns of stick against sword.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/comprehensive-listing-of-aikido-techniques/Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/comprehensive-listing-of-aikido-techniques/Some 675 techniques of the Iwama Ryu, listed by category and cross-referenced to the volume and page of Saito Sensei’s two book series.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/short-history-of-aikido-weapons/Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/short-history-of-aikido-weapons/Where O-Sensei’s sword and staff work came from, the changes he made in forming Aiki-ken and Aiki-jo, and how Saito Sensei preserved and systematised them.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/organisation-of-aikido-weapons/Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/organisation-of-aikido-weapons/What each weapons exercise is for and how it prepares the next, from the suburi through awase and kumi practice to weapon taking and empty-hand technique.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/weapons-certification-system/Tue, 09 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/weapons-certification-system/The mokuroku scrolls devised by Saito Sensei to preserve O-Sensei’s weapons, and what each of the five levels requires.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/saito-sensei-easter-seminar-1997/Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/saito-sensei-easter-seminar-1997/A report on the four day Easter gasshuku at Willoughby, taught by Saito Sensei five months after major surgery, and what he asked of the instructors he was teaching.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/sairenji-sensei-visits-sydney/Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/sairenji-sensei-visits-sydney/T. Sairenji Sensei, 6th dan from Iwama and once Takayasu Sensei’s sempai, teaches at the City Dojo, with an interview on O-Sensei and Saito Sensei.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/grading-day-october-2002/Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/grading-day-october-2002/Three sandan gradings at the City Dojo, two shodan from Turramurra, and Takayasu Sensei on why senior students should teach kihon.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/picture-gallery/Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/picture-gallery/Seventy three photographs kept on the association’s original website, from O-Sensei and Saito Sensei at Iwama to demonstrations at the Opera House and the Town Hall, with the commentary that ran beneath each one.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/the-not-so-soft-traditional-aikido/Wed, 01 Jan 1986 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/the-not-so-soft-traditional-aikido/An interview with Saito Sensei following the seminar the association brought him to Australia to teach.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/sword-training-for-aikido-and-other-arts/Sat, 01 May 1993 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/sword-training-for-aikido-and-other-arts/Why the sword is inseparable from Aikido training, written for the Cutting Edge column of Australasian Fighting Arts.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/attaining-mastery/Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/attaining-mastery/Using linguistic principles to describe a path of learning within an art, from declarative knowledge through to mastery.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aikido-and-taoism/Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aikido-and-taoism/A comparative study of Aikido and Taoist philosophy and practice, left unfinished.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/goals-of-aikido/Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/goals-of-aikido/Reconciling Aikido as budo with Aikido as a path of development, with a flowchart of attack and defence.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/seating-in-the-dojo/Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/seating-in-the-dojo/Where everyone sits for the formal bow-in and for training, and the reasoning behind it.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/caring-for-your-jo/Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/caring-for-your-jo/Warping, splitting and splintering, and how to store, oil and look after a staff.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/grading-curriculum/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/grading-curriculum/The full kyu and dan requirements of the Takemusu Aiki Association, with the classes and time required before each grading.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/takemusu-aiki-aikido-short-documentary/Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/takemusu-aiki-aikido-short-documentary/A short film on Takemusu Aiki as taught by Takayasu Sensei in Sydney, covering the curriculum and traditions preserved by Saito Sensei.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aiki-ken-videos/Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/aiki-ken-videos/Visual guides to the beginning Aiki-ken practices, including the ken suburi and happo-giri.https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/how-to-fold-your-hakama/Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/library/how-to-fold-your-hakama/A demonstration of the proper way to fold a hakama, for new black belts and for anyone whose folding has drifted over the years.https://aikidoaus.com.au/aikido/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/aikido/https://aikidoaus.com.au/contact/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/contact/https://aikidoaus.com.au/dojos/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/dojos/https://aikidoaus.com.au/gallery/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/gallery/https://aikidoaus.com.au/training/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://aikidoaus.com.au/training/