About Aikido Techniques

Series Summary

Aikido, the modern Japanese martial art, was developed between the 1920's and 1960's and is a powerful form of mortal combat that employs many different techniques of attack and defense. Learning these techniques is done by repeating basic aikido exercises and motions. Each aikido exercise trains a student to execute a certain aikido technique. These aikido exercises are necessary for the aikido student's training and advancement. Learn basic aikido exercises in these free videos on aikido training. In this free video series, a third-degree aikido black belt demonstrates a number of aikido weapons techniques. Sword forms, warm-ups and exercises are covered, as are a variety of disarming techniques for self-defense. Some of the exercises include working with laido swords, kumitachi paired sword exercises and tantodori knife takeaways. With these aikido weapons techniques, the Samurai sword skills of any martial arts student will improve instantly.

Video Transcript

"I'm going to be demonstrating some techniques from muusodikoiden asianrue, it's in yada form that's about 450 years old. The techniques that they have are very, very traditional, and demonstrated techniques that would be before maji, before weapons, such as firearms where- even flintlocks were introduced to Japan. Once I'm done demonstrating the basic techniques from asianrue, then we'll move into some Aikido weapons, and show the connections between sword work, and empty handed techniques."