Aikido Tomiki : Kendokan

Description

Japan official program of the Aikido Assosiation (JAA) and application of Tomiki Aikido the free practice and self defense.

The good thing is that Tomiki Aikido is a very open system that can fit different concerns or preferences of the practitioners there who specialize more in the competition (Shiai), who has more concerns about the practices and koryu kata, who are passionate about the free practice (randori, Toshu), etc.

I remember my colleague Peter (4th dan aikido) of the oldest, mate Juan Carlos Aguilar (my 5th dan Sensei and aikido), asked Lee Ah Loi (8th dan aikido) concerns about the application of techniques Tomiki Aikido to self-defense and she replied saying, "Search the Koryusai".

It is true that in the koryu can find many applications of techniques to different attacks and threats, but from my point of view, no longer a kata where one type of aggression or threat is resolved with a certain technique and where Improvisation is often conspicuous by their absence; that is, when you study koryu try to do as a standard or model.

Those who know me know my concerns about the application of the techniques of Aikido to the different situations of self-defense. I remember when I started in Tomiki Aikido, my teacher explained that one of the main differences of our style of Aikido, with respect to others, was the orientation towards the free circulation.

As a free practice must understand the use of Tomiki Aikido techniques outside the concept of kata as Randori, but do not confuse this with the Shiai or competition. Free practice is an agreement between uke and Tory, in which uke attacks or threatens Tory Tory a certain way and free techniques applied without following any order of kata and the possibility of application of the basic techniques, which enhance or facilitate the execution of the same.

Based on this concept of free practice it is where this site is intended only as a guide develops.