Daito-ryu Aiki Budo: The Way of "Aiki as Bujutsu" - How to Prepare for a Fight - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/iby3d In this video, ISHIBASHI Shihan explains how to master the Aiki by which one can fight in a real situation. Master ISHIBASHI performs powerful techniques with his age over 80. Soukaku TAKEDA Sensei spent the first half of his life mastering Kenjutsu. He established Daito-ryu Aiki Jujutsu based on the techniques learned in Kenjutsu training. In this DVD ISHIBASHI Shihan explains such

Daito-ryu Aiki Budo Master Yoshihisa Ishibashi The representative of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo Shunpu-kai. Master Ishibashi was born in Tokyo in 1938. In 1964 he entered Daito-kan, the general headquarters Dojo of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo. He received the lesson of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo and Onoha Itto-ryu Kenjutsu from Tokimune Takeda Souke. In 1969 he established Tokyo Katsushika branch of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo as the representative. While he was instructing and promoting Daito-ryu, he studied Onoha Itto-ryu

Aiki-jujutsu was once something that one was only allowed to train once one already had a jujutsu black belt. Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo (which is what BJJ comes from), regarded Aiki-jujutsu as superior to his own jujutsu, and sent his top students to be trained by Takeda Sokaku, Aiki-jujutsu's head. He was embarrassed when Takeda found his students lacking, and famously explained that judo was really just a "budo of sports." It's extremely difficult. Those who say it's not for practical s