Nishio Aikido (feat. Koji Yoshida Shihan)

Описание: I understand that most people viewing this video may not understand what they are seeing. This is a completely different level of aikido. I was also completely at a loss when I first saw Nishio Sensei in 1984 even though I had already been training for a number of years.

Regarding Shoji Nishio Sensei I'll quote Ellis Amdur: "Let me tell you how wonderful his abilities with sword and staff were - only three times in my life have I gasped at someone's abilities the first time I saw them: Otake Risuke, Kuroda Tetsuzan and Nishio Shoji." Mr. Amdur also states that Nishio Sensei was considered by Morihiro Saito to be the exemplar aikido's future!

Yoshida Sensei is 7th dan in Aikido Aikikai, 6th dan Renshi in Musoshinden-ryu Iaido and 7th dan in Aiki Toho Iaido. Needless to say, the weapons work you're seeing is very sophisticated. Yoshida Sensei was appointed by Nishio Sensei as his official representative to the U.S.

If you want to learn more about Aikido in the tradition of Shoji Nishio you can visit NishikazeAikido.org and NishikazeAikido.TV.

Here's a guide to the video...
0:02 - 0:13 shomenuchi nikyo omote ken tai ken
0:13 - 0:18 is a shomenuchi kokyho (passing under the striking arm), first shown empty hand, then with ken, then with jo.
0:18 - 0:21 is shomenuchi ikkyo done with the initial double atemi as it was done by Nishio Sensei
0:21 - 0:26 is aihanmi nikyo ura ken tai jo. Nishio Sensei did this by contact the opponent's sword. Yoshida Sensei shows a version here, "otonashi," done "silently" without hitting the opponent's sword.
0:26 - 0:32 is shomenuchi nikyo omote ken tai jo
0:32 - 0:39 is shomenuchi shihonage omote, hand and ken tai ken.
0:39 - 0:44 is shomenuchi shihonage omote ken tai jo.
0:46 - 0:56 is the Aiki Toho Iaido form for gyakuhanmi zenpogedankuzushi nikyo. There are 3 levels of iaido forms for each aikido technique and Yoshida Sensei is showing Level 3.
To understand Aiki Toho Iaido is to understood how to express any aikido technique properly and in detail using the sword.