Aikido

Aikido is the art Usheiba Morihei developed from his studies from Daito Ryu Jujutsu and other Jujutsu arts;  Basicall it’s techniques cover projections (throws) and immobilizations (locks). Pre WWII the art was more for self defense and included atemi (striking) where post WWII Usheiba moved away from combat as the main purpose and moved towards aikido as a way to make you a better person, Less focused attacks.

 

Tristan Sutrisno’s father studied with one of Usheiba’s students in the 1930’s and the aikido we study also incorporates kicking and striking. Obviously a result of the father’s additional arts. These are aikido wazza (techniques) use aikido principles (often first) and might incorporate other principles too (such as kicking).

 

We only use these aikido drills , which cover many of the basic skills, as tools. Perhaps as preparation for skills later used in the larger study of Isshinryu karate technique.

 

But to understand Aikido in principle the following video’s may be helpful. Though the attacks are often not realistic, trust me the skills they impart work if one reaches sufficient skill.

 

Perhaps you might enjoy to determine whether the skills shown are pre or post WWII.

 

 

The founder Usheiba Morihei What’s Aikido 

Ushiba Morihei  1935 

Ushiba Morihei jo and bokken

Ushiba Moihei later 

his son Ushiba Moriteru 

 

some of Usheiba’s students

 

Yoshimitsu Yamada Advanced techniques

       

     

Tohei Koichi  

Kenki Tomiki  

Gozo Shinpda 

Sa ito Morihiro 1972  

The source art Daito Ryu is a much larger study than Aikido, not more effective, but differently effective. There are hours of video on Daito Ryu, but it is not geared to your art. It may take 35 years to learn its thousands of techniques. In this light more does not mean more effective.

 

There are far fewer aikido techniques, but there are many time many variations of them. There are plenty of great books on aikido, but youtube video’s make more sense to review its’ techniques.