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ATTACKS IN AIKIDO
How to do kogeki, the attack techniques
Book about all the attack techniques in aikido, and how to do them correctly.
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AIKIDO PRINCIPLES
Basic Concepts of the Peaceful Martial Art
Book about aikido principles, philosophy, and basic ideas.
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AIKIBATTO
Bestseller book about the aikibatto sword and staff exercises, practical and spiritual aspects of the sword arts, equipment for training, etc.
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QI
Increase your life energy
The book about the life energy qi, with exercises on how to awaken and use it.
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TAOIST SOURCE
The Taoist source. The complete Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu.
SHINKEN
Shinken - live blade. Get a sharp steel katana sword for your iaido or aikibatto solo exercises. Here is how.
Aikido photo album
In my early days as an aikidoka, I was mostly the one holding the camera, so of all the photos in my album from that period, few have me in them. Now that I rarely bring my own camera to the dojo, things are a bit different. Judging from the pictures others give me, it seems as if I am never out of focus.
Until this moment, modesty - I'd like to believe - has stopped me from any more than sporadically using photos of me, in books I have written, on these webpages, and other public channels. To my astonishment, though, several aikido friends have asked me to reconsider. For the life of me, I can't figure out why.
What I do find, though, is that I enjoy it, now that I have started. It gets me to look through photos, which have so far only had the company of each other, in dark drawers and cardboard boxes, waiting in vain to be sorted into albums I have not updated for close to a decade. A www-album does not get covered by dust.
So, here is a handful of aikido pictures, most of them with me somewhere in them, and it is my intention to have the collection grow - eventually. The most recent ones come first. For the comfort of the surfer, I have made thumbnails linked to webpages with larger pix, for those who just never can get enough of me. I might be one of them, we will see if I am actually all of them. Enjoy!
Stefan Stenudd
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Nishio sensei (1927-2005) visited our dojo Enighet several times in the 1990's. Here are some photos taken by Ulf Lundquist at those seminars. |
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Jönköping 2004 The Jönköping Aikido Club celebrated its first ten years with a seminar in January 2004. These photos were taken by Ulrik Eklund, who was the founder of the club, and its head instructor until he moved to Kiruna, then to Gothenburg. |
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Järfälla 2003 Järfälla Aikido Club is where I started as a beginner in 1972. Here are pictures taken by Hans-Erik Lehndal at a seminar I held there in October 2003. I made some odd faces, but I assure you that it all made some kind of sense. |
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Pardubice 2003 Near Hradec Kralove - the city that took me forever to learn the name of, although I've had a seminar there and it has some good restaurants - is Pardubice. Leos Matousek took these photos from the seminar in Pardubice in 2003. |
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Plzen 2003 At the 2003 Plzen summer seminar, I shared the teaching with Jan Hermansson, Aikikai Shihan, Swedish aikido nestor. He is very well known for his capacity and fantastic repertoir of techniques. He's got a great sense of humor, too. I took these photos at some of his classes. |
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Enighet New Year's Eve 2002 For once, I'm on the reverse side of the camera. I took these photos at my dojo Enighet, after our New Year's Eve training in 2002. Jonas Dahlqvist and Tomas Ohlsson are the ones on the other side of the camera. |
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Berlin 2002 At the April 2002 weekend seminar, we did some taninzugake - several simultaneous attackers - among other things. Here are some photos, taken by Larry Kwolek, of the complex web of people which can appear in gotai taninzugake. |
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Zlin In Zlin, Czech Republic, the ever-joyous Patrik Orth works hard for aikido - in his dojo as well as with his Aikido magazine, and much more. My first visit was in 2000, from which these photos are, and we practiced without tatami. For the most part, we exercised with jo and bokken, which is easy enough on the naked floor, but somehow we moved on to regular aikido. Nobody seemed to mind. |
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Lucenec My first seminar in Slovakia was in 1999, in the town of Lucenec - pretty much in the center of the country. Also in 2000 we had a seminar there, right after the one in Plzen, so it seems to become a tradition, and a most enjoyable one. A week full of aikido training, in the company of just as friendly as dedicated students. These photos are from the year 2000. Mostly I held the camera here, so I'm in almost none of them. So as not to strain your internet connection, they are divided into four webpages. |
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Plzen The traditional summer seminar in Czech Republic was in the town of Plzen, where they make the beer, in the year 2000. This town is where it has been the most, competently handled by Jarda and his dojo. This time Ulf Evenås, 6 dan in both Iwama ryu and Aikikai, was also teaching, to the delight of both the seminar students and myself. These many pictures have been taken by me, except for those with me in them, which were taken by Ulf. There's a lot of them, so they are divided into four webpages. |
 
 
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Berlin For several years I have been holding seminars at the Tanden Aikido in Berlin, a club where my ol' aikido pal Mikael Eriksson is instructing since its start (and before that). These pictures - mainly from iaido classes - are taken by Frank Weingärtner of that dojo, in the June seminar of 2000. 
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Ghosts at Enighet Gisela Döhler is a sophisticated artist, who made a number of drawings at our aikido classes, catching wonderfully the movement and flow of aikido. These drawings are exhibited at the Enighet dojo website. She also took some photos, once again focusing on the flow that is so characteristic of aikido, wherefore the unfocused nature of the pictures make us look a bit like ghosts. |
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Sweden Here are pictures from Swedish national aikido seminars - the upper one in January 1999 by super-professional photographer Magnus Hartman, who is an instructor at the very dojo where I started doing aikido, the other in the Easter of 1998 by present Swedish aikido Chairman Jöran Fagerlund. |
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Czech Since 1991 I go regularly to have seminars in the Czech Republic, where everybody practices so hard I get a sweat already by watching them. Czech aikido, having started not that long ago, is developing with an impressive pace. Larry Kwolek, living in Prague, took these photos in Plzen 1998. 
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Vännäs These photos were taken by the gifted photographer and charming instructor Dick Lindström, Kaizen Aikido dojo in Vännäs, far up north in Sweden, when I had a seminar there. It was in the winter, so we did not mind being indoors. |
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Ven For a few years Enighet aikido had outdoor seminars on the picturesqe island Ven, in between Sweden and Denmark. We mainly exercised with jo, bokken and iaido kata - well, an occasional normal aikido throw, too. Those were festive events, so we might want to repeat them someday. Photos by dojo member Ulf Lundquist. |
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Enighet I was born and raised in Stockholm, which is also where I started 1972 with aikido at the Järfälla Budo dojo, but in 1991 I moved to Malmö in south Sweden. Later that year we started the aikido training at the huge martial arts dojo Enighet. These photos are taken by dojo member Ulf Lundquist, the upper two with Håkan Karlsson, who lives in the US right now, and the third with Fredrik Grenson. |
Stefan Stenudd
since July 22, 1999.
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Stefan Stenudd
is an author and aikido instructor, 6 dan Aikikai, Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation. He also teaches the sword art iaido. He has written several books about aikido and other Japanese and Chinese traditions.
Secret Teachings of Aikido
Osensei Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, about the philosophy of his art.
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LIFE ENERGY ENCYCLOPEDIA
Qi, prana, spirit, and other life forces around the world explained and compared.
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