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Aikido Weapons: Kumitachi Form Paired With the Sword

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Summary: The kumitachi technique in aikido refers to a paired exercise with a sword. Try the aikido kumitachi form with tips from a third-degree black belt in this free video on martial arts weapons.

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"Sensei" Jeff Albright has been practicing martial arts for more than 20 years. He holds a 3rd degree black belt in Aikido, black belts in Karate and Iaido (a.k.a. Samurai sword), and...read more

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"This next technique, or kumi tachi, or paired exercise with the sword, is what we call in our dojo, misubi noken. This was developed by Saoto mi sensei, Saoto mi shihan, back in Japan, when he was teaching my master instructor Eoshi han, which he passed onto me. I don't see too many other people doing this yet today. It's evolved into many other forms in modern haikido technique, but this is probably pretty unique to our dojo. Again, we call this misubi noken."

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