Aikido - The Tomiki Way Neil Saunders
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

:) By the way: my steady training partner and me often travel to Aikido seminars abroad. I've sparred with a few Tomiki black belts. Dec 2, 2011 - Those early days where also the period when Kenji Tomiki was an active student of Aikido with o'Sensei. I remember that Tomiki was still coming to teach classes for a while. That what I mean by it's still aikido or put another away the techniques still work in exactly the same way. My BJJ school also teaches JJJ, and from what I have seen of their classes it is taught much the same way as BJJ, drilling then training in live sparring, plus most ranges are covered. But sometimes I had to accompany him to Ueno station and make sure that he was on the right train. I'm interested in starting to Aside from one style called Tomiki, Aikido doesn't employ sparring. Apr 22, 2010 - Real aikido, which should probably be known as Serbian aikido borrows techniques from aikido but little else according to founder Ljubomir Vračarević, who set out to deliberately remove Japanese philosophy and culture from his aikido, although seemingly not fashion. Last I checked, there was no point system in a Reply:Shinbu, Yoshinkan, and Tomiki Aikido are the top 3 styles of Aikido. The art has evolved, and today can be many things to many people, and they seek to fill the perceived gaps in its efficacy in various ways. Apr 27, 2009 - KUNG FU all the way. There was also Arikawa and Tamura on occasions. Feb 18, 2007 - frédéric said Nice to see myself as an uke on a website I have only discovered it yesterday! For him, a woman in her fifties was young so it was not too difficult. Reply:If it's going by a point system, Aikido would not 'win.' It's primarily a reaction based system, and while very effective and efficient in an actual fight, it would not 'win' in this scenario If you even call that winning in battle. I was just wondering if there's anyone here from the Long Island (specifically Suffolk) area that can recommend a good Aikido school? I knew a good trick; O sensei liked to talk to young women, so I used to peek into the car, looking for a vacant seat next to a woman. But in Aikido they would not be aloud to use 80% of there techniques.