Thank you all for your help and support over the last year. We enjoyed training with all of you in 2020 (what little training there was before the world locked down for Covid-19), and we’re looking forward to restarting training with you all in the coming year! Konjin – from Abe no Seimei’s Hoki Naiden (The Book of Yin and Yang) 2021 is the Year of the Ox (actually, the Metal Ox), promising success through hard effort (we can all hope). The primary deity of Onisaburo Deguchi’s Omoto religion is also an “Ox” – “Ushitora no Konjin” (艮の金神), the “Ox-Tiger” kami who guards the North-East segment o ..read more

Thank you all for your help and support over the last year. We enjoyed training with all of you in 2019, and we’re looking forward to even more great training with you all in the coming year! December 2019 Sangenkai Hawaii Intensive Workshop hosted by Aiki Kai O Kona The capstone to another year of training in Hawaii, in December 2019 the Sangenkai Hawaii intensive workshop once again attracted attendees from all over the world, with a large group Australia Sangenkai members as well as mainland, local and neighbor island Sangenkai members – continuing the tradition as the onl ..read more

Below is an interview that originally appeared on Nick Porter’s The Way You Practice blog. Following the English interview is a translation in Spanish by Juantxo Ruiz. Hey folks! What follows below is an interview with Chris Li, a martial artist who has primarily trained in Aikido. He’s a great resource within the Aikido community regarding the history of the art and a very approachable guy. He also trains in “internal power”, which is something that never made sense to me, even when I trained Aikido. At best, it seemed like an overly complicated explanation of biomechanics. At worst, it l ..read more

Kodo Horikawa (front left) with Kazuto Ishida (right) Ishida was the 5th Chief Justice of Japan, the second chairman of the All Japan Kendo Federation and 5th Soke of Yamaoka Tesshu’s Itto Shoden Muto-ryu Ishida’s wife (front center) and daughter (back right) Seigo Okamoto, back left Born in 1894 in Kitami, Hokkaido, Kodo Horikawa began Daito Ryu Jujutsu training with Sokaku Takeda at around the same time as Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba. Sokaku focused on instructing Kodo in “Aiki” because of his size, and Kodo came to be known for techniques that were extremely subtle and soft. In 193 ..read more