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AIKIDO PRACTICE
AIKIDO THEORY
AIKIDO BOOKS
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Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido Book ReviewAiki News Encyclopedia of Aikidoby Stanley PraninStanley Pranin lived a number of years in Japan, where he practiced aikido (mainly but not only for Morihiro Saito) and ran the first significant aikido magazine: Aiki News (later renamed Aikido Journal). He worked extremely hard at documenting the history of aikido, interviewing just about every instructor in Japan and collecting old films of Osensei.He put his vast knowledge into this encyclopedia, which was at the time a veritable fountain of aikido facts - especially regarding aikido teachers of any significance. The book was originally published in 1991, a bunch of years before Internet, Wikipedia and all that. At the time it was a completely unique compilation, surprisingly trustworthy in spite of the difficult task at that time of getting all the facts right. Now we have the web, but Pranin's book still holds its ground as a source to knowledge about aikido and its many pioneers. By this feat of his, Pranin can count among them.
My other reviewsI've reviewed some other books about aikido and related topics.
My Own Aikido BooksAikido Principles Basic Concepts of the Peaceful Martial Art. The principles, philosophy, and basic ideas of aikido. It's not about the aikido techniques, but the thoughts and ideas behind them. You could call it a book on aikido theory. It was my first book, initially in Swedish
Attacks in Aikido How to do kogeki, the attack techniques. All the attack techniques in aikido explained, and how to do them correctly. This is an often neglected field in aikido training. We focus on the aikido defense techniques but forget to learn the attacks properly - but then the development of our aikido skills will suffer. So, I wrote this book. As far as I know, it's the only one on the subject.
Aikibatto Sword and staff exercises for aikido students. I developed a comprised system of sword and staff exercises (aikiken and aikijo), initially for my own students to get familiar with these things. Other aikido students seemed to appreciate it, so I made this book. The exercises are explained in detail, with practical and spiritual aspects of the sword arts, how to teach them, equipment for training, and more.
Qi - Increase Your Life Energy Ki, the life energy, is a very important aspect of aikido. This is evident already in the name of this martial art. It's the same as the Chinese concept qi (also spelled chi or ch'i). Although essential in many ways, far from all aikido students know how to deal with it and integrate it in their training. Therefore, I wrote this book explaining ki, with several simple basic exercises on how to awaken, increase, and use the life energy.
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Stefan Stenudd
 About me
I'm a Swedish author and aikido instructor, 6 dan Aikikai Shihan, Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation. I've practiced aikido for 40 years. I also teach the sword art iaido. In addition to fiction, I've written books about aikido and other Eastern traditions. More about me here.
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