Doshu Yoshigaski’s book, All of Aikido, has just been published.

With 456 pages and  1497  colour photographs this comprehensive books covers all aspects of Aikido including exercises you can practise by yourself, techniques that can be applied against a wide range of attacks, multiple attacks, weapon training, Misogi and Kenkodo.

This book describes in detail how Aikido techniques can work to stop fighting instead of carrying on conflicts. It gives a thorough guide to the foundations of the art and suggestions of how to apply these ideas in daily life.

The book costs £25.00  (which included P&P) and can be purchased via the British Ki Society by sending a cheque to
Shihan Burgess,
British Ki Society,
5, Hopkins Road,
Coundon,
Coventry.
CV6 IBD

Alternatively you can buy a copy at one of our London dojo. If you would like more information please fill in the contact form below.

Doshu Yoshigasaki will be teaching in London on Friday 19th June 2015

The Studio
Bloomsbury Fitness,
3rd floor Bloomsbury Theatre Building,
15 Gordon Street
London.
WC1 0AH

19:30 – 21:30 General Class

The class will cost £15.00

We will be providing a list of attendees to Bloomsbury Fitness before the class.

Doshu will continue onto Salisbury on 20th-21st June to teach a weekend seminar. More details of this course can be found on the British Ki Society website. We will be organising transport to and from London for the seminar.

If you would like to attend please fill in the contact form below.

We have recently changed venues in the City and now practise at Farringdon, a few minutes walk from our previous dojo at the Barbican.

The classes will run from  6pm-8pm on Wednesdays and cost £10 a session or £35/month.

Our classes in Harrow, on Thursday between 7pm-9pm will run as normal.

If you would like to give Aikido a try or have any other questions let us know.

We will be running a Kenkodo class from 7pm-8pm on Monday at Templeton House on the fourth floor. In this class we will cover various Meditation, Breathing and Stretching methods and see how they can be applied to your daily life.

More details about what Kenkodo is, and how it is really everyone’s responsibility to practise this, or something similar, can be found here.

If you would like more information please fill in the contact form below.

The City Dojo is closed for refurbishment following the flood damage earlier this year. We will keep you posted when it reopens.

In the meantime, we have arranged a Kenkodo class at Templeton House to run every Monday from 7pm to 8pm. In this class we will cover various Meditation, Breathing and Stretching methods and see how they can be applied to your daily life.

We shall also be running a special Aikido class this Saturday at Harrow Martial Arts Centre from 2pm-6pm. The regular class on Thursday from 7pm-9pm will run as normal.

If you would like more information please complete the form below.

Radek, Rekha and I have just returned from a weekend seminar in Heidelberg, Germany from a seminar given by Doshu Yoshigasaki. Thanks to the Heidelberg Ki AIkido club for hosting a great seminar and their hospitality this weekend.

Doshu Yoshigasaki teaches seminars across Europe throughout the year.

There have been endless discussions comparing Aikido to this or that martial art or how well Aikido would evaluate in a MMA competition. Actually Aikido could be defined as an art derived from techniques of the Japanese sword; thus it is more similar in nature to Kendo which is a martial art that seems to avoid any of these comparisons.

In Aikido, we use the Bokken, which literally means a wooden sword. It is with these techniques that the  close relationship between Aikido’s unarmed techniques and their original sword form can be most clearly seen.

We also learn the Jo, which is a wooden staff of about four feet tall.  The Jo should be considered just a tool, symbolic of any object that you might be able to use in daily life to protect yourself.  In fact we teach several techniques on how it can be used against the Bokken, which would be considered a far superior weapon.

In Aikido there is no competition. Techniques are taught without fixing space or time. So there are no areas out of bounds or three-minute rounds. By practising this way, we train to expect surprises, such as another attacker or an unexpected weapon, both of which would be illegal in a sport format but highly probable in a real situation.

We shall be exploring these weapons in a special class running between 2pm-6pm on 28th February at the Harrow Martial Arts Centre. The class will cost £10.00 and is open to anyone over 14 years old.

If you would like to know more please fill in the contact form below.

Training has resumed at our City Dojo following repairs for the flood damage.

We practise 6pm-8pm on Tuesday and 6:30-7:30pm on Wednesday.

If you would like to give Aikido a go why not come down and give it a try.

The Dojo in the City will be closed for another week because of flood damage. We expect practise to start again on the 24th February.

Classes at the Harrow Dojo will continue as normal.

There will be an extra class on the 28th February running from 2pm-6pm at our Harrow Dojo. This class will cover some of the weapon training that we practise in Aikido and will cost £10.00

If you would like to come along let us know by filling the form below.

Doshu Yoshigasaki has written an article about Freedom and Morality which is published on the  British Ki Society website.