List of articles

• Ki Aikido Podcast

  30th Oct 2024

  

  This Ki Aikido podcast was generated by Google’s Notebooklm product. Sensei Carl Myers is the teacher at the Brighton and Shoreham club. He entered the Ki Federation website address into this application to see what it would make of our website. He did not enter any bias, or suggestions, as to what the application should…

• Ki for Health Exercises

  29th Apr 2020

  

  Sensei Aitkenhead has made this short video of the Ki for Health Exercises. Its purpose is to encourage students to practise at home during these strange coronavirus times.

• Ki Development Exercises

  10th Apr 2020

  

  Sensei Aitkenhead has made this short video of the Ki Development exercises. It’s purpose is to encourage students to practise at home during these strange coronavirus times.

• Aikido is for Everyone

  21st Aug 2018

  

  Sensei Walters has made this short video to emphasise that Ki Aikido is for everyone. It can be enjoyed by anybody, regardless of age or physical ability.

• BBC Somerset Radio Aikido Interview

  20th Jul 2018

  

  Simon Parkin is a radio host on BBC Somerset. In June 2018, he came to the Ki Federation of Great Britain’s Headquarters and interviewed several members about their aikido experience. This is an extract of those interviews taken from his broadcast on 20th June 2018 (9:00 to 12:00). This is audio only.

• Fantastic Aikido Weekend

  10th May 2017

  

  What a fantastic Aikido weekend.  I’ve just come back from Headquarters and would like to thank Sensei Margaret for teaching the 7th and 8th Dan course on Saturday, and then the advanced sword course on Sunday. It has all been a wonderful, exhilarating time. Advanced Sword Course, May 2017 7th and 8th Dan Group Course,…

• Sensei Williams Course

  19th Apr 2015

  

  Here is a great video of a Sensei Williams Course, from May 1987. It shows snippets of the course given on the occasion of the opening of the Alness dojo in Northern Scotland. It is 38 minutes in duration.

• Suwari Waza

  21st Jul 2014

  

  Suwari Waza is the practice of aikido from the seated (kneeling) position. This requires the ability to move around the mat while in that position. The Japanese word for this is Shikko, but we often call this knee walking – a very apt description. Here a young man from the Northampton Ki Aikido Club has the freedom of…

• Junior Aikido

  7th Jul 2014

  

  The qualities that we are trying to develop as adult Ki Aikido students are equally relevant to the development of children. Self-confidence, calmness, a positive and non-aggressive outlook are all qualities that will benefit a child when dealing with other children and adults. Of course there are other benefits to Junior Aikido – don’t forget they are doing…