Aikido Bokken Basics DVD with Jose Isidro Kisshomaru Ueshiba 5 - Neck locks (5)

5 - Neck locks (5)

guard passing strategies

" blending taijutsu and staff techniques

Various Tsuba Drop

demonstrating how the principles of Uchi Kaiten can be applied under increasingly demanding conditions

Aikido Bokken Basics DVD with Jose Isidro Kisshomaru Ueshiba 5 - Neck locks (5)To truly understand Aikidoan art founded on harmony, creation, and continuous evolution rather than conflict and destructionwe must return to its origins. Those origins lie in the classical traditions of Japanese swordsmanship, from which many of Aikido's principles of movement, timing, distance, and body mechanics were born. Unlike the methods practiced in many schools of Kenjutsu, Aikido's use of the bokken is not based on defeating an opponent