The Attack of the Floppy Rubber Knife The following year I did a display somewhere and was surprised to see another demonstration of Aikido by the same Tomiki group, I have no idea why we were both there. I did real knife and when the ...

The Santa Rosa Aikido site also has video footage of a keashi waza series, but the uke is so soft and participatory it's not clear there are any attacks to kaeshi. How can you know you're techniques will actually work unless the uke ...

A professor of physical education at Waseda University for many years, he developed a competitive system of aikido based on a point system where one opponent attacks the other with a rubber knife with the other defending. ...

I tend to think in terms of "energy prints" - as Aikido's "attacks" are not attacks in my experience. As an energy print then, Ai-Hanmi Katate-Dori is about having Uke present a cross-lateral positioning with a traversing force/opening. ...