Aunkai Honbu Tokyo
Yearly activity blog master category
A closed two-day seminar was held in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, through a relationship with Kazumi Hashida Sensei, who also runs the Imabari Shimanami Aikikai.
Thank you for this new relationship!
After participating in the seminar, the instructor, Fujita sensei, wrote a blog about her impressions of meeting Akuzawa sensei.
English text is also available.
Please read this as well.
【Aikido】Learning from a Master
This seminar was an introduction to internal movement martial arts that focuses on structure and posture, and covered how to transmit your own power to your opponent without relying on movement energy.
Participants used the Aunkai’s method to recognize and execute the internal movements required for this, and experienced the sensations involved.
Once again, there were participants from far away and repeat attendees, with some even sending thank-you emails after the seminar.
We are grateful for all the connections we have made.
On 28.7.2024, at a general meeting of the Aunkai organization, Robert John, a former Hanshi of the Aunkai, and Gernot Hassenpflug, a former Renshi of the Aunkai, were excommunicated due to conduct detrimental to the organization and violations of the rules, such as leaking information, and Mike Mahoney was voluntarily dismissed from the Aunkai.
We would like to inform you that the above-mentioned persons and their affiliated groups, seminars, etc. will not be associated with our association in any way in the future, and that the “internal power” “Naido” described by the above-mentioned persons is distinct from the techniques taught by Akuzawa Sensei.
August, 2024
Naido Bujutsu Aunkai
One-day Aunkai Open Seminar in Tokyo given by Akuzawa sensei.
Naido bujutsu(Internal power) is techniques for recognizing internal actions and manipulating the body, as described in Aikijutsu and other martial arts. Our seminar is designed to introduce these techniques and deepen your awareness of them while allowing you to experience fighting techniques and aikijutsu.
The seminar will be presented so as to be accessible to people both young and old, with little or long experience in martial arts, and who are curious about how these arts are intended to work.
📷 Niels Hermannsson （monochrome photographs）
The Aunkai Japan Camp was held from 2023.10.25-29 in Chichibu.
Originally this camp was planned for the spring of 2020, but was delayed for more than 3 years by Covid. Fortunately, to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of Aunkai, the camp could at last be realized.
This time, there were several points of note:
All in all quite a different format from the previous camp that had been held back in 2016.
We are very pleased to have received so much good feedback about the camp from participants. A warm thank you to everyone involved.
One-day Aunkai Open Seminar in Tokyo given by Akuzawa sensei.
In this seminar, focus will be on an exposition of the practical application of Aiki in striking and unarmed martial sports, based on the Aunkai definition of Aiki mechanics. Aunkai derives its effectiveness from internal body manipulation and mechanics, and participants will gain an insight into the training methodology, as well as to feel its application.
The seminar will be presented so as to be accessible to people both young and old, with little or long experience in martial arts, and who are curious about how these arts are intended to work.
On 2023-09-23 the 2nd seminar of the year was held at the Musashinodai Primary School in Nerima-ku.
The topic of this seminar was usage of the Center of Gravity (CoG) in bujutsu, differentiating movement of body weight from movement of the CoG. Once this had been grasped, the focus turned to transmitting the CoG, using as examples several of the basic forms used in Naido-Bujutsu training.
A big thank you to both all the new participants and to the repeat attendees from the previous seminar in February.
