Aikido (Shinjitai: 合気道, Kyūjitai: 合氣道, aikidō, Japanese pronunciation: [aikiꜜdoː]) is a modern Japanese martial art which is split into many different...
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Though the art of aikido is characteristically different from other Japanese martial arts, it has a variety of identifiable styles within the family of...
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Shodokan Aikido (昭道館合気道, Shōdōkan Aikidō) is the style of Aikido founded by Kenji Tomiki. Shodokan Aikido is sometimes referred to as 合気道競技 (Aikido Kyogi)...
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Aikido techniques are frequently referred to as waza 技 (which is Japanese for technique, art or skill). Aikido training is based primarily on two partners...
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Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido (心身統一合氣道) or Ki Aikido (氣 合気道) is a Japanese martial art, a gendai budo (contemporary martial art). It is part of the martial...
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Aikikai (redirect from Aikido Doshu)
school of Aikido. It is centered on the Aikikai Foundation in Japan, and its figurehead is the Doshu (the family heir of the founder of Aikido). It is represented...
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Kenji Shimizu (redirect from Tendo-ryu Aikido)
Shimizu (清水 健二, Shimizu Kenji), b. 1940, is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendo-ryu Aikido (天道流). Shimizu was born in 1940 in Fukuoka...
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black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. He later...
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Morihei Ueshiba (section Development of aikido)
1969) was a Japanese martial artist and founder of the martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" Kaiso (開祖) or Ōsensei (大先生/翁先生)...
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Gozo Shioda (section Aikido career)
July 17, 1994) was a Japanese master of aikido who founded the Yoshinkan style of aikido. He was one of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba's most senior students...
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