Despite the fact that a whole lot of us consider Aikido as the last word martial art, it's an art that is primarily based on faith and harmony. Aikido uses joint locks, weight manipulation, and throws to achieve it's purpose. ...

We were doing a series of throws in a line. At one point it was Buddy's turn. He goes to throw, I felt him change his position and adjusted my ukemi to both take his lead (and be safe). I made this change mid way through the throw ...

The exercises here are based on hitori waza, the simple building blocks that underlie the most spectacular Aikido throws. These are augmented with testing techniques, class demonstrations, and underlying basics of physics, anatomy, ...

Aikido basic techniques include ikky which involves control an attacker by placing one hand on the elbow and one on near the wrist giving an opportunity to throw the attacker to the ground; the niky which draws in the uke using a ...