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• Aikido, Martial Arts and Self Defense Education
  Self Defense Education - Whether you want to defend yourself quickly, or spend years learning a martial art, there's a lifetime of advice and experience in here for you.
  
  
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  Here is the first set of articles written here about martial arts and self defense issues, and especially Aikido techniques.
  
  
  • Aikido Equipment Requirements Are Simple
    You don't need much aikido equipment to get started with this martial art.
    
    
  • Aikido Exercises
    Aikido exercises can be broken into two categories.
    
    
  • Aikido History
    The History of Aikido is an interesting one, because it combines several violent Japanese martial arts yet it adds a Peaceful ethic.
    
    
  • Aikido Holds
    There are many Aikido holds used to immobilize an opponent.
    
    
  • Aikido Instructions
    Aikido instructions, step by step 'How To' information.
    
    
  • Aikido Kata
    Aikido Kata is the formal training you will do in dojo classes.
    
    
  • Aikido Locks
    Aikido locks are used to hold am opponent so he cannot move.
    
    
  • Aikido Martial Arts
    Aikido martial arts techniques are effective yet humane.
    
    
  • Aikido Martial Arts Demonstrations
    How to do Aikido martial arts demonstrations and bring in new students.
    
    
  • Aikido Breakfalls
    Aikido breakfalls are the first step in learning how to do Aikido
    
    
  • Aikido Moves
    Aikido moves keep you safe from being struck by an attacker.
    
    
  • Aikido Pressure Points
    Aikido pressure points for distraction, pain and compliance.
    
    
  • Aikido Techniques
    Aikido techniques are mostly adapted from Ju Jitsu, but the Aiki versions are usually less savage.
    
    
  • Aikido Throws
    Aikido throws, holds and projections.
    
    
  • Aikido Tutorial
    Aikido tutorial ebook by Nick Lowry, a 7th Dan black belt in Tomiki Style Aikido, who teaches in Chicago, USA.
    
    
  • Akido
    Japanese Akido, the non-violent martial art.
    
    
  • Animated Aikido Techniques
    Free animated Aikido techniques and detailed how-they-work instructions.
    
    
  • Atemi
    Atemi is the Japanese term for striking the body's weak points.
    
    
  • Atemi Points
    If you know some good atemi points, you won't waste your time hitting someone and having no effect.
    
    
  • Breakfall Safely
    The first lesson in Aikido (or Judo) will cover how to breakfall safely.
    
    
  • Aikido Breakfalls Description
    Aikido breakfalls description - Info on doing back breakfalls, side breakfalls and rolling breakfalls or forward rolls.
    
    
  • Aikido Competition - What split Tomiki from the other styles.
    Aikido competition exists, but only in one of the styles - founded by Uyeshiba's first 8th-dan student.
    
    
  • Aikido Demonstrations
    Aikido demonstrations will bring in new students if you do them right.
    
    
  • Aikido Diagrams
    Aikido diagrams, drawings and illustrations are much clearer than photographs when the pictures are done by a highly skilled artist.
    
    
  • Aikido Dojo List
    My aikido dojo list has been updated.
    
    
  • Aikido Drawings
    aikido drawings
    
    
  • Aikido eBook
    Aikido ebook
    
    
  • Aikido Epping
    Aikido at Epping YMCA, NSW, was a long time ago.
    
    
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  • A Comparison of Bushido & Chivalry
    Comparison Bushido Chivalry What did the Samurai warriors and the European Knights have in common, if anything? How did their codes of honor compare?
    
    
  • Easy Aikido Moves To Save Your Hide
    Are you looking for easy aikido moves to save you from taking a beating? If so, you'll find this article useful.
    
    
  • Fighting Pressure Points
    Is it practical to try and hit fighting pressure points in a melee?
    
    
  • Hojo Jitsu - Ropes and Knots, Samurai Style
    The ancient Japanese police art of tying up a prisoner is called Hojo Jitsu.
    
    
  • How To Do a Breakfall
    Want to know how to do a breakfall properly and not get hurt?
    
    
  • How To Fall Safely
    Need to know how to fall safely ? This will give you the basics.
    
    
  • How To Learn Aikido
    how to learn aikido ... You do it by finding a school and going to meet the people there. You'll either like them or not. Then you can make your decision.
    
    
  • Judo Holds and Submission Techniques
    Judo Holds and Submission Techniques - Judo and Ju Jitsu have some excellent holds and submission techniques to end a fight fast.
    
    
  • Kenji Tomiki, master of Judo and Aikido
    Kenji Tomiki was the first of Morihei Uyeshiba's students to earn an 8th Dan black belt teacher's certificate in Aikido.
    
    
  • Koichi Tohei - the Master of Ki
    Koichi Tohei took the
    
    
  • Martial Arts Sites
    There are so many Martial Arts sites on the world wide web, it's hard to choose where to go.
    
    
  • Morihei Ueshiba (O-Sensei) - Founder of Aikido
    Morihei Ueshiba, known as O'Sensei (great teacher) by his followers, blended sword, spear and jujutsu techniques into his unique new martial art he named Aikido.
    
    
  • Pressure Points Used For Fighting
    Pressure Points Used For Fighting - How useful are pressure points when it comes to fighting? Which ones do you know? What can you go for?
    
    
  • Sokaku Takeda, the founder of Daito-Ryu Aiki Jujutsu
    Sokaku Takeda taught Daito-Ryu Aiki Jujutsu to the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba.
    
    
  • Steven Seagal Aikido
    Steven Seagal Aikido - What's really behind Steven Seagal Aikido? Is it just an act, or can he really do this stuff?
    
    
  • Vital Pressure Points
    It's no good hitting a person just anywhere. When the chips are down those hits have got to make a difference. Hit the right vital areas and you'll be ahead.
    
    
  • Wrist Throw - Kotegaeshi
    The versatile Wrist Throw - Aikido is a martial art with very many wrist throws.
    
    
  • Junanahon no Kata
    The Junanahon no Kata - the basic 17 techniques of Tomiki Aikido are also called the Randori no Kata (in Japanese).
    
    
  • NSW Tomiki Aikido Club at North Ryde RSL Youth Club.
    The NSW Tomiki Aikido Club was formed as a breakaway group from the Australian Aikido Association's Sydney group, which used to meet at Willoughby Park Center, near Chatswood inorth of Sydney.
    
    
  • Alan Ames - The Aikido Teacher
    Aikido teacher, Alan Ames, Sydney and Perth, Australia
    
    
  • Levels of Free Practice in Tomiki Aikido
    Free practice is where students pair off, and both attacker and defender vary their techniques to improve both their skills.
    
    
  • Diagram of Pressure Points on the Human Body
    There's no real need for a diagram of pressure points because you know the important ones already.
    
    
  • Jigoro Kano - Founder of Kodokan Judo
    Professor Jigoro Kano is the man who took the best from Japanese Ju Jitsu and turned it into Judo
    
    
  • John Gay - Australian Aikido Association
    John Gay, Shihan, was the head of the Australian Aikido Association and the representative of the JAA in Australia.
    
    
  • Sumo Wrestling - More Than 'Fat Men' Pushing
    Japanese Sumo are large men who live a hard life.
    
    
  • Atemi Waza
    How you use Atemi strikes in Aikido.
    
    
  • Aikido Animated GIF
    Want an Aikido Animated GIF ? - Well, we have 17 great Aikido animated GIF images of here Tomiki Aikido throws and holds.
    
    
  • Tetsuro Nariyama
    Tetsuro Nariyama, Shihan, is the Master (the teacher of teachers) of Shodokan Aikido worldwide.
    
    
  • Japanese Wooden Swords
    What use are Japanese Wooden Swords?
    
    
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  • Ki Energy
    Ki Energy - Ki or (Chi) is the mystical part of Aikido... an energy or life force.
    
    
  • Uyeshiba - O-Sensei, the Founder of Aikido
    Uyeshiba - Morihei Uyeshiba, the founder of Aikido.
    
    
  • Koryo Katas - Old Aikido
    The Koryo Katas of Tomiki Aikido contain the older, more dangerous techniques from Aiki Budo and Daito Ryu Aiki Ju Jutsu
    
    
  • Jigoro Kano (1860-1838)
    Jigoro Kano took the best from Japan's then-declining Ju Jitsu schools, and turned the blend into Judo
    
    
  • Aikido Drawings
    Two textbooks with absolutely great Aikido drawings.
    
    
  • Kata Aikido - When practise really does make perfect.
    Kata Aikido can be formal high-level routines, or they can be how Aikido beginners learn a technique step-by-step through near-perfect repetition.
    
    
  • Martial Arts Clip Art
    Find martial arts clip art by scouring the web.
    
    
  • Martial Arts Stretching
    Martial Arts stretching isn't just for kicking higher, it's vital to prevent strains and torn muscles.
    
    
  • Sokaku Takeda (1859-1943)
    Sokauku Takeda taught Daito-Ryu Aiki Jujutsu to the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba.
    
    
  • Steps To Learn Aikido
    Here are some steps to learn Aikido. Pick what suits you and ignore the rest.
    
    
  • Stretching For Martial Arts
    Stretching for martial arts really needs to be done before every class.
    
    
  • Tomiki Aikido - Aikido with just a touch of Judo
    Tomiki style Aikido is named after Kenji Tomiki Sensei.
    
    
  • Virginia Mayhew Aikido
    Virginia Mayhew (now Virginia Bailey) learned Aikido at the original Honbu dojo in Japan in the early 1960s, and brought that martial art to Hong Kong in 1967.
    
    
  • Woman Aikido Teacher Saved Cop From Riot Mob
    Here is the woman Aikido Teacher who brought Aikido to Hong Kong.
    
    
  • Martial Art Stances
    All Martial Art Stances are a compromise. They depend on whether you're kicking, punching, blocking ot throwing.
    
    
  • Self Defense Moves
    Basic self defense moves to hurt the other guy.
    
    
  • North Ryde Youth Club
    The North Ryde Youth Club at the RSL was where we set up shop and ran our little Aikido club. I started it, and it's still there, now run by Ray Mazzone.
    
    
  • Submission Techniques
    Submission Techniques and how to make the other guy holler or tap.
    
    
  • Self Defence Techniques
    There are many self defence techniques. Just remember a handful.
    
    
  • Self Defense Techniques
    Here are some self defense techniques to remember, and some advice.
    
    
  • Martial Art Skills and Stances
    If you want martial art skills and stances, you'll need to do some real work.
    
    
  • Martial Arts & Bullying
    Are martial artists the bullies, or do those who have been bullied become martial artists?
    
    
  • Self Defense and the Use of Force
    When you use force to defnd yourself, there's always a chance you will be accused of using 'too much' force. Use of force leaves you open to legal problems.
    
    
  • Grow Flowers From Your Fingertips
    Aikidoka who do Ki Aikido extend Ki from their finger tips. But Virginia Mayhew, the Aikido Teacher, had a very different method which was truly beautiful.
    
    
  • How Long to Earn a Black Belt in Aikido?
    More stuff from past newsletters, including a reader's question on How Long to Earn a Black Belt in Aikido
    
    
  • Free Aikido, or Aiki Without Sweat
    Answer to a website visitor who asked about the Master/Student relationship in Aikido, and another who wanted it free.
    
    
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  • Abused Woman in Hiding Calls For Help
    This was an email from the 'Contact Me' form on my web site.
    
    
  • Adreneline Dump
    All about the Adreneline Dump - Handling the body's natural fear reaction to perceived or real danger.
    
    
  • Aikido Movies
    Aikido has been in the movies, and on TV, more often than most people would realize.
    
    
  • Bruce Lee a Symbol of Unity in Divided Bosnian town
    Bruce Lee's Kung Fu, courage and moral virtues are helping inspire and heal divided youths.
    
    
  • Chinese Chi Kung or Breath Energy
    This Art of Chinese 'Breath Energy' has great benefits to your physical, spiritual and mental health...
    
    
  • Choosing The Right School of Martial Arts
    With so many styles and mrtial arts schools to choose from, what should you look for and how to decide?
    
    
  • Condition the Body For Kung Fu or Karate
    There are some basic
    
    
  • Fear of Aikido Injury - Can Someone Over 40 Do Aikido?
    Fear of Aikido Injury - There's always a risk of injury when you play sport, and martial arts like Aikido also have their dangers. See here how we handle them.
    
    
  • How to Really Defend Against a Knife
    Don't believe the stuff taught in most dojos, and run for your life if you can!
    
    
  • I Know Karate and Kung Fu and Lots of Other Foreign Words!
    Why martial arts are so popular in the USA, and a little bit about how they really work for you.
    
    
  • Kids Aikido Can Be Fun
    Kids Aikido classes can be great fun, but some techniques have to be left out to prevent injuries.
    
    
  • List of Common Attacks in Self Defense
    List of Common Attacks in Self Defense - and self-defense techniques particularly applicable for women and children.
    
    
  • Pressure Point Fighting, and Hi from Bossier City, Louisiana.
    Two more letters from visitors... One wabted to know about pressure points, the other was saying 'Hi' from the USA.
    
    
  • Shikko Knee Walking
    Do you think you can defend yourself while sitting down or kneeling? That's what this Samurai knee walking is all about.
    
    
  • Surviving a Real Attack On The Street
    How you train in the practise hall ain't nothing like the street. The real thing won't be easy to handle.
    
    
  • The Real Test For Vital Combat
    I've always stressed the difference between practise in a dojo and doing things 'for real'. Read what a real Master has to say about it...
    
    
  • The Samurai Punishment of Yubizume
    Samurai Punishment Yubizume
    
    
  • Train Your Hands for Karate
    Train Your Hands for Karate - But how far do you need to go in conditioning your hands for Karate training?
    
    
  • Which Martial Art Hurts Most
    Which martial art hurts most when it comes to the nitty gritty? Are Aikido or Judo soft martial arts because they don't use kicks and punches like Karate or Tae Kwon Do? Well think again.
    
    
  • Why Get Your Kids Into Martial Arts
    There are so many negative influences giving our kids bad messages, see why martial arts can give them some positive ones...
    
    
  • Why Train At Martial Arts ?
    Martial Arts training is hard work, and fun ... a discipline with a host of benefits when you're willing to stick at it.
    
    
  • Unbendable Arm
    Unbendable Arm is an Aikido exercise used to demonstrate Ki. A volunteer is asked to bend the arm while the person demonstrating resists ...
    
    
• Aikido Techniques Avoid The Onslaught
  Aikido techniques use movement to avoid attack and unbalance the attacker
  
  
  • Morihei Uyeshiba
    O-Sensei, Morihei Uyeshiba, the martial arts genius who founded Aikido.
    
    
  • How to Breakfall Safely
    You can't do Aikido until you can breakfall safely (do Ukemi). Tumbling properly, you protect your head and limbs, while saving your body from the shock of impact.
    
    
    • Back breakfalls are your first step in learning Aikido.
      Back breakfalls keep you from cracking your skull on the ground or breaking other bones. It's a vital
      
      
    • Side Breakfalls are the next step after learning backward breakfalls.
      With side breakfalls, you don't have two arms free to slap the mat. Sometimes you won't slap at all.
      
      
    • How To Do Rolling Breakfalls (forward rolls)
      Train with a friend to do rolling breakfalls, so you can fall or be thrown without injury.
      
      
    • Kotegaeshi Breakfalls - or why you need to jump over your own arm quickly.
      Kotegaeshi Breakfalls are an advanced version of an Aikido Side Breakfall. You do them by leaping over your own arm while being thrown. It saves your arm from getting broken.
      
      
  • Randori no Kata techniques of Tomiki Aikido
    Randori No Kata contains the 'Basic 17' Aikido Techniques of the Tomiki Aikido system. It is also known as the Junanahon no Kata.
    
    
    • Shomenate - Tomiki Aikido Throw #1 (of 17)
      Shomenate is the first attack technique of the Randori no Kata (also called the Junanahon No Kata or the Kata of 17)
      
      
    • Aigamaeate - Tomiki Aikido Throw #2 (of 17)
      Aigamaeate is the 2nd Aikido technique of Tomik Aikido's Randori no Kata
      
      
    • Gyakugamaeate - Tomiki Aikido Throw #3 (of 17)
      Gyakugamaeate is the 3rd aikido throw of the Randori no Kata
      
      
    • Gedanate - Tomiki Aikido throw #4 (of 17)
      Gedanate is an Aikido throw where you drop low, under the attacker's arms and break his balance.
      
      
    • How to do: Ushiroate (Aikido rear attack throw)
      The Ushiroate aikido throw is where you
      
      
    • Oshitaoshi (Tomiki Aikido elbow push-down throw) technique #6
      Oshitaoshi is a powerful elbow control technique (or throw), also known as Ikkyo (First Control) in some Aikido styles.
      
      
    • Udegaeshi (Tomiki Aikido elbow wind-up)
      The Udegaeshi aikido technique
      
      
    • Hikitaoshi (elbow pull down Aikido throw) technique #8
      Hikitaoshi is the
      
      
    • Udegarame is a spectacular Aikido throw, where Uke does a roll to escape.
      The Udegarame aikido throw is really a followup to the Hikitaoshi throw... for when Uke resists the first throw, you switch immediately to the second and lock up his arm.
      
      
    • Wakigatame (elbow lock aikido hold) technique #10
      Wakigatame is a powerful Aikido elbow lock which is usually applied from a high attack (to your face or head). It is not an aikido throw, just a hold. But it is effective.
      
      
    • Kotehineri - Aikido wrist push-down technique #11 of 17
      Kotehineri, Aikido Throw #11 (of 17), Randori-no-Kata
      
      
    • Kotegaeshi Aikido Throw - Tomiki Aikido's #12 (of 17)
      The Kotegaeshi wrist throw is the 12th Aikido throw from Randori no Kata
      
      
    • Tenkai-kotehineri - Tomiki Aikido throw #13 (of 17)
      The Tenkai-Kotehineri aikido technique
      
      
    • Tenkai-Kotegaeshi (Shiho nage) - The Aikido "Four Directions" Throw
      Shihonage (sometimes called Tenkai-Kotegaeshi) is the 14th aikido technique in the Randori no Kata of Tomiki style Aikido.
      
      
    • Maeotoshi (elbow arm-bar Aikido throw)
      The Maeotoshi aikido throw actually begins as an arm bar. Pressure is applied to Uke's elbow joint, so Uke does a forward roll to prevent his arm being broken.
      
      
    • Sumiotoshi (corner-drop Aikido throw) technique #16
      The Sumiotoshi aikido throw requires a fearsome breakfall. It is not a breakfall for the faint hearted. When first learning it, we used to call this one
      
      
    • Hikiotoshi (pull-drop Aikido throw) technique #17
      Hikiotoshi is the final of the 17 basic techniques of Tomiki Aikido. It also requires spectacular jumping and falling skills by the person it is being done to.
      
      
• Aikido in Sydney
  Aikido in Sydney has come a long way in 30 years.
  
  
  • Sydney Sports Aikido
    A new Sports Aikido class will be opening in Sydney soon. It will follow the Shodokan Aikido system which includes a sports aspect similar to that of Judo, where students can test their skills.
    
    
• Aikido Shown Step-by-Step
  This unique Aikido e-book shows Fukakugai Aikido (or Carl Geiss Aikido). It is a branch of Tomiki-style Aikido.
  
  
  • Samplings from Nick Lowry's Aikido eBook
    A taste of what's inside the aikido e-book -- Aikido - principles of kata and randori.
    
    
  • Testimonials from Aikido eBook Buyers
    Comments and testimonials from people who have bought and read Nick Lowry's Aikido eBook
    
    
• Martial Arts
  Man has been hurting his fellow man since the first caveman picked up a rock. But over the millenia, it became a little more skillful.
  
  
  • Jodo - The Art of Japanese Stick Fighting
    Jodo is the Way of the 5 foot short staff. A deadly efficient weapon.
    
    
  • Kendo - the Japanese Way of the Sword
    Ken do is the modern art and sport of the Samurai Sword.
    
    
  • Bruce Lee, master of Kung Fu and founder of Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee was a master of Chinese Kung Fu and a master showman as well.
    
    
  • Kung Fu or Gung-Fu, It's All Chinese Boxing to me!
    Kung Fu - China has hundreds, maybe thousands, of different martial arts styles.
    
    
  • Tae Kwon Do - Korea's Olympic Sport Martial Art
    Tae Kwon Do - In 1955, a Korean General founded this martial art and made it his country's national sport. It has now spread worldwide and, like Judo, even to the Olympic Games.
    
    
• Learn Self-Defense Online
  Most martial arts have skills you can use for self defense. But it takes years of training to reach that level of skill.
  
  
  • How To Deal With A Bully
    A boy emailed me from my website and asked how to deal with a bully. This is the reply I emailed him back.
    
    
  • Real Life Is Different from the Dojo
    
    
  • Vital Points - The Art of Atemi
    When you're fighting for your life, aim for the vital points because they have the maximum effect.
    
    
  • Vulnerable Points for Self Defense
    When you're fighting for your life, you have to make every hit cause damage. That's what the body's weak points are for.
    
    
  • Vulnerable Points (Part Two) for Self Defense
    Part Two of my list of Vital Points, Nerve Centers and Atemi spots to attack when your life is in real danger.
    
    
  • Women's Self Defense Against Men
    Here are some quick and dirty women's self defense against men. They are effective and they will really injure whoever you do them to. So don't use them lightly.
    
    
• Self Defense Products as used by Police and Security, or ordinary people
  You don't have to be a martial artist to use self defense products. They are the great, modern, non-lethal equalizer.
  
  
  • Air Tazer
    The Air Tazer can reach out and zap a violent person who's threatening you from up to 15 feet away.
    
    
  • Pepper Sprays
    Pepper Sprays - non-lethal weapon for self defense purposes.
    
    
  • Retractable Baton
    The spring baton is a metal club which retracts like your car's radio antenna, so it fits in your purse or pocket. Cops and security guards carry them in a belt holster.
    
    
  • Stun Devices
    Stun Devices are non lethal weapons designed to catch the other person by surprise and give you some breathing space.
    
    
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