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…
Year: 2017
Some Thoughts on Improving Our KYOGI
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…
The Martial Arts as a Time Capsule
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…
Interview with TAA Chairman Robert Dziubla
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…
Vassar College Tomiki Aikido Festival
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…
Chairman’s Corner – September 2017
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…
Losing Is Better than Winning
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…
Professor Tomiki’s Radical Notion
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…
Context In Evaluating Martial Arts
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…
Some Historical Background of the Inclusion of Shiai in Tomiki Aikido
Prepared for Transfer of Nidan Rank to the TAA To view the article with proper citation, download the PDF here. In December 1940, MRead More…