West Coast Regional TAA Seminar Review
On October 7th and 8th the Bay Area Shodokan dojo of Berkeley, CA, hosted the first-in-a-long-time West Coast Regional TAA Seminar. Seminars werRead More…
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On October 7th and 8th the Bay Area Shodokan dojo of Berkeley, CA, hosted the first-in-a-long-time West Coast Regional TAA Seminar. Seminars werRead More…
I am not an international competitor – not yet. I should make that clear right up front. I joined the TAA in January 2016, coming from a non-competitiRead More…
For six months I studied abroad and, without a local Tomiki Style dojo, I joined the Glasgow University Aikido club and studied Aikikai style. Of neceRead More…
Tomiki News (TN): Tell us about yourself. Where is your family from? What interests do you have outside of aikido? Dziubla Shihan (RD): I was born anRead More…
I felt like I learned so many things! One aspect that was particularly helpful was seeing different ways techniques could be executed, and the effectsRead More…
Dear Friends, The WSAF2017 World Aikido Championship in London was fabulously hosted by our friends at the British Aikido Association, in a great fRead More…
I firmly believe that losing an aikido shiai (tournament match) is far better than winning. Aikido is full of paradoxes. And they especially surfRead More…
Over the past month or so, I have been reflecting upon Tomiki Sensei’s work On Jujutsu and Modernization. This was one of Tomiki’s last works, comRead More…
Everyone loves to talk about ‘practical martial arts’ and ‘real martial arts’ as if watching a video from their living room makes them an expeRead More…
Prepared by Erik DiVietro for Transfer of Nidan Rank to the TAA To view the article with proper citation, download the PDF here. In December 1Read More…