Designed to defend against multiple attackers, it offers many solutions to aggressive behavior by others.Kokikai Aikido practice is characterized by realistic, focused attacks, and the fluid responses ...

Basic Principles of Aikido Help Turn an Attack Into Opportunity. Using breathing and movement techniques, a person joins the energy of an attack and redirects it so the attacker throws himself. By .

Aikido is the highest form of non-violent self-defense where the defender joins forces with their attacker to neutralize attacks without injuring either person. This training integrates mind, body and ...

Iowa Aikikai isn’t the place to look for a fight. The small, friendly club tucked away in a quiet corner of the Field House may disappoint students looking to learn the devastating aikido attacks they ...

Yoshimitsu Yamada, who more than anyone else was responsible for bringing the defensive martial art known as aikido to the United States, died on Jan. 15 in Manhattan.

What other arts, and many aikidoka, don't get about aikido attacks is that if they succeed, they should be pretty devastating. If they don't, use that energy to get the H!@# out of Dodge.