Aikido - The Tomiki Way Neil Saunders
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

:) By the way: my steady training partner and me often travel to Aikido seminars abroad. Apr 5, 2012 - Image of Aikido: The Tomiki Way. Yes, this is the result of rank exchange between business associates who are busy building there little niche in the market. Sep 4, 2009 - Anoche me topé con una wiki sobre Aikido Shodokan, alias Tomiki Ryu, que no conocía (http://tomiki-aikido.wikispaces.com). There's no such organisation known as the "Japanese" Aikido Association, Google only results in those entries made by the claimant (no surprise there) the Japan Aikido Association (Tomiki based) has never heard of him. That was accompanied by a peculiar, odd, klunky way of moving, in which her body below the hips seemed to move like a limp noodle, while her trunk and head was as stiff as a board. I'm not a complete aikido basher. (Plus, as a method of improving physical fitness, it is lacking, and as a dance, it's not particularly aesthetically pleasing. Okay, let me soften the blow and clarify my statement. Nov 22, 2008 - The Various styles of Aikido (Akikai, Iwama, Ki, Yoshinkai, Tomiki etc etc) all have there own slants on the nature of this mysterious, omniprescence force, and this is one discussion that, by it's very nature, will remain endless, rather like Ki itself :0) Here is a fascinating take In finding one's own inner space of calm in a frenzied, stressful world, one can then be capable of connecting to others in a compassionate, authentic way that enriches life and nourishes the spirit. Dec 18, 2011 - Point 1: Seagal is a martial artist in the same way that this halibut is an astronaut. Jul 7, 2010 - When we tell someone, "We do aikido," then they practice with us, a long, drawn-out discussion always ensues, "We don't do it that way" until we finally admit that we do Tomiki aikido. Like a Hoover vacuum cleaner sucks. Ha, circle jerk, i like the way you put it. (Tomiki Aikido is an exception in this regard, though the “pure aikido” techniques used in this are still relatively impractical, when compared to techniques from a real grappling art). Aikido: The Tomiki Shodokan Aikido is part of as well as the largest organized branch of Kenji Tomiki's Tomiki Ryu, which, due to regular competitions, also goes by the name "Sport Aikido". Feb 18, 2007 - frédéric said Nice to see myself as an uke on a website I have only discovered it yesterday! Got your attention, aikido folks? Reblogged this on Central London Shodokan Aikido. It's not useful as a method of fight-training.