If you enjoyed this video we think you will enjoy this selection of products from our catalog:

1. Aiki Ken on DVD

2. Aiki Jo on DVD

3. Takemusu Aikido: Bukidori & Ninindori

4. Traditional Aikido: Volume 2, Advanced Techniques

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This screen grab from “Divine Techniques” featuring Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba will give you a good idea of what’s in store for you!

We are pleased to announce the availability of this outstanding DVD titled Divine Techniques, containing rare footage of O-Sensei. This is the fifth DVD of Aikido Journal’s definitive DVD series on the Founder of aikido. “Divine Techniques” is comprised of a collection of 12 films of O-Sensei—several of them in color—from the period of 1962 to shortly before his death in 1969. It also includes a heretofore unpublished audio recording of the Founder’s voice replete with English subtitles. This wonderful DVD completes the set of six volumes that present the aikido and philosophy of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba.

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Everyone can reap benefits by investing time reading about a topic they love. Our focus is the serious practitioner, the aikido instructor, those who value the heritage of the art. One of the best tools we have to reach our valued readers with this information is our special two-year subscription offer. The material you receive at no extra cost will provide you with a virtually inexhaustible source of material.

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• Aikido Pioneers - Prewar Era - FREE OF CHARGE!
• Aiki News / Aikido Journal back-issue DVD
• More than 4,300 pages of Aiki News / Aikido Journal magazine from 1974-2000
• Access to more than 800 archived articles
• Access to over 100 rare video clips
• Encyclopedia of Aikido reference book from 1991 in PDF form
• Special bonus! 4-hour lecture on Aikido history by Aikido Journal Editor Stanley Pranin

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Let Morihiro Saito Sensei show you the way!

Imagine being able to turn back the clock and be present at a seminar given by an Aikido great of a bygone era. Imagine being taught by Morihiro Saito Sensei, 9th dan, up close and personal and being able to understand every word he speaks in English. Imagine no more as this opportunity does indeed exist! Think of the possibilities to improve your Aikido practice and teaching skills!

The “Lost Seminars” featuring Morihiro Saito Shihan, 9th dan!

Aikido Journal appeals to a niche market, no two ways about it! Our focus is the serious practitioner, the aikido instructor, and those who value the heritage of the art. One of the best tools we have to reach our valued readers with this information is our special two-year subscription offer. The material you receive at no extra cost will be among the most prized items in your aikido book collection.

Look at what your two-year subscription or renewal gets you:

• Aikido Pioneers - Prewar Era - FREE OF CHARGE!
• Aiki News / Aikido Journal back-issue DVD
• More than 4,300 pages of Aiki News / Aikido Journal magazine from 1974-2000
• Access to more than 800 archived articles
• Access to over 100 rare video clips
• Encyclopedia of Aikido reference book from 1991 in PDF form
• 4-hour lecture on Aikido history by Aikido Journal Editor Stanley Pranin

When I spent the summer in Japan in 1969, the late Terry Dobson was the senior foreign student at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo. I can remember a group of gaijin (foreigners) who would sometimes gather to chat after class at the Kojimaya coffee shop near the dojo. This was the favored haunt of virtually anyone who regularly attended the Hombu Dojo given its proximity. On any particular day, you were likely to encounter several of the best-known shihan of the aikido world sitting in tables around the little shop just a few feet away.

Terry would delight us with all sorts of stories about the famous teachers then at the Aikikai. He had lived among the uchideshi at the Hombu Dojo for a couple of years in the early 1960s and was privileged to know the inside scoop on many fascinating subjects. Some of Terry’s tales were of events that he had witnessed first-hand, while others were the stuff of rumors. It didn’t matter which was which, the gaijin who had made the trek to the Mecca of aikido from all parts of the world hung on his every word.

I remember once asking a famous teacher of a classical Japanese martial art if he thought a person could learn his budo by watching a video. His answer was, not surprisingly, “Of course not!” This seemed like a reasonable answer, one that I had heard many times before, and I thought nothing of it. Then, a short time later, someone at one of his seminars asked permission to videotape his class. “Dame da! Waza ga nusumareru!” (Absolutely not! My techniques would be stolen!) was his curt reply.

Later, he confided to me that a couple of students had visited his dojo from Eastern Europe. They had never studied with him or any of his affiliated instructors. Saying that they had merely been studying on their own by watching a videotape, the by-now-curious teacher told them to demonstrate what they had learned. He said he was amazed at how well they could mimic the martial forms just by studying the videos.

I never forgot what he said and, after many years, publishing and marketing videotapes, I have come to believe that such visual materials can indeed be a valuable aid for the martial arts learner.

This especially became the case after I began editing the Lost Seminars DVDs of Morihiro Saito Sensei. I realized that an edited version of a videotape containing complete subtitles would maximize the experience for the viewer, particularly if that person had some experience with Saito Sensei’s style of aikido.

For readers who would like to further deepen their study of the origins of Aikido, we have prepared a special set titled “The Pillars of Aikido” that contains Aikido Pioneers-Prewar Era, Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu: Conversations with Daito-ryu Masters, and The Great Onisaburo Deguchi. A reading of these three pivotal books will give you a deep understanding of the roots of Aikido and inform you all about Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, the technical precursor of the art, and Onisaburo Deguchi, the famous religious leader who guided Morihei Ueshiba through a spiritual transformation.

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We would like to bring to your attention that we offer the authoritative instructional work by Katsuyuki Kondo, Menkyo Kaiden, titled Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Hiden Mokuroku.

This is the first book in English to introduce the technical curriculum of Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu as originally taught by Sokaku Takeda. It contains the 31 techniques of the ikkajo series of the Hiden Mokuroku, the first level of study in Daito-ryu.

You may also wish to consider our special discounted set consisting of Katsuyuki Kondo’s two outstanding instructional DVDs together with the Hiden Mokuroku book.

(31 March 1928-13 May 2002). 9th dan Aikikai. B. Ibaragi Prefecture. Retired Japan National Railways and Aikikai Shihan. First taught by Morihei UESHIBA in Iwama in the summer of 1946. Received the property on which his house was built directly from Ueshiba out of gratitude for helping to settle a land dispute. Considered the leading expert on the AIKI KEN and AIKI JO based on his long tutelage under Morihei Ueshiba in Iwama and subsequent refinement of weapons curriculum. Author of six books on aikido, a Japanese-English five-volume series entitled Traditional Aikido and a short training manual entitled Takemusu Aiki. Former head of the Ibaragi Dojo in IWAMA and guardian of the AIKI SHRINE. Appeared in all four of the AIKI NEWS-sponsored FRIENDSHIP DEMONSTRATIONS. Taught on numerous occasions in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Initiated a traditional style certification for the aiki ken and aiki jo beginning May 1989. Interviewed AN#32-34, 74-75.

If you enjoyed the video here are several products that we think will help you learn the material in the video.

1. Morihiro Saito: The Lost Seminars, Part 5

2. Morihiro Saito: The Lost Seminars, Part 7

3. 1st Friendship Demonstration, Part 2

4. Takemusu Aikido: Background & Basics (Vol. 1)

5. Takemusu Aikido: Kokyunage (Vol. 4)

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We would like to bring to your attention the availability of a DVD by Shoji Nishio Sensei that features the long-awaited final videos of the outstanding instructional series he produced in the late 1990s. The fourth DVD of this series features Volumes 7, 8 and 9 that correspond to Katadori Menuchi, and Aikido Toho Iai, Parts 1 & 2.

Click here to take advantage of the special offer of all 4 DVDs of this series plus Nishio Sensei famous technical tome titled Yurusu Budo, his only book publication.