Aikido

Aikido is a Japanese grappling system developed from Jiu Jitsu. The object of Aikido is to neutralise the attacker’s force by moving with and redirecting it to the defender’s advantage.

Counter attacks are mainly delivered to the joints especially the wrists. For this reason, the white training uniform is often quite light – it does not have to withstand the pulling and tugging that is found in activities like Judo.

There are three principal schools of Aikido and these are:

1.Traditional Aikido

2.Tomiki Aikido

3.Yoshinkan Aikido

Traditional Aikido is practised as taught by the founder of Aikido, the late Morihei Ueshiba. There is no competitive element.

Tomiki Aikido is founded on freestyle practice whereby students learn to apply techniques against resistance. It involves self defence and competition of various types.

Yoshinkan Aikido involves a lot of Ueshiba’s earlier teachings and forms the basis of excellent self defence. It is a favoured system of many military and police units in Japan.

Select Aikido clubs within NAKMAS are currently represented.