AIKIDO
Aikido
The Peaceful Martial Art                             Stefan Stenudd
CONTENTS

AIKIDO PRACTICE
Aikido Basics
Attacks in Aikido
Ikkyo complete
Tantodori - knife defense
Ki exercises
Koshinage
Kotegaeshi
Yonkyo
Nikyo
Sankyo
Jo 31 Kata
Aikibatto sword exercises
Aikido Video Clips
Nishio videos
Aikido Photos
My seminars   NEW!

AIKIDO THEORY
Aikido Glossary
Ki energy
Tanden, the Center
Running a Dojo
Aikido is True
Osensei and Einstein
Attacks in Aikido   NEW BOOK!
My Aikido Book
My Aikido Book in German
Books about aikido
Aikido Links
About me
Visitor Response

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Attacks in Aikido - book by Stefan Stenudd.
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 - bestseller book by Stefan Stenudd.
AIKIDO
The Peaceful Martial Art
Bestseller book about aikido principles, philosophy, and basic concepts.
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Aikibatto - bestseller book.
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.
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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Tao Te Ching - the Taoist source.
TAOIST SOURCE
The Taoist source. The complete Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu.


Shinken - get a sharp steel katana sword.
Shinken - live blade
Get a sharp steel katana sword for your iaido or aikibatto solo exercises. Here is how.


Aikido
The Peaceful Martial Art

Me and my teacher Ichimura sensei, way back in 1974. T he video above is from 2007, at my present dojo Enighet in Malmö, Sweden. The photo to the right is from 1974, with an adolescent me as uke to Ichimura sensei, my teacher at that time. Today I have practiced aikido for 35 years. How many hobbies will last for that long, and remain fascinating? Normally I am impatient, to say the least. Anything that I have to repeat over and over, will very quickly lose its attraction.
     Not so with aikido, the gentle martial art from Japan. I keep on doing those exercises, keep on struggling to refine the techniques - and my fascination increases. This is an anomaly, a koan if you will, that can only be comprehended if aikido is seen neither as a sport nor a system of self defense, but as an art.
     Of course it's an art - endlessly intriguing, infinitely variable, never perfected. What else could it be?
     Apart from this website I have written some books about aikido and such:
Aikido: The Peaceful Martial Art
Attacks in Aikido
Aikibatto: Sword Exercises for Aikido Students
Qi: Increase your Life Energy.
Stefan Stenudd

Contents
koshinage Aikido basics
Tables of all the aikido techniques and attacks, and their combinations. With comments and explanations.

Aikido glossary
A dictionary of aikido terms and their meanings.

My seminars
Here is information about my seminars in Sweden and other countries.

Attacks in Aikido - the book by Stefan Stenudd. New book:
Attacks in Aikido

How to do kogeki,
the attack techniques

My book about all the attack techniques in aikido, and how to do them correctly. The book also contains lists of the techniques and attack forms of aikido combined. Already a bestseller at Amazon!
More about the book here.


Aikido - the book by Stefan Stenudd. My aikido book
The Peaceful Martial Art
Here is my aikido book in English, presenting the principles, philosophy, and basic concepts of aikido. It's on the top of Amazon's bestseller list for aikido books.
More about the book here.


Aikibatto - the book. AIKIBATTO
My book about Aikibatto is on the top of Amazon's bestseller list for aikido books. In addition to what you find about aikibatto on this website, the book also contains chap­ters about practical and spiritual aspects of the sword arts, equip­ment for training, and how to teach and learn aikibatto.
More about the book here.


Koshinage
The aikido technique koshinage against a few basic attacks, described in text and videos.

Ikkyo
Ikkyo
Texts and video clips on ikkyo against several different attacks. Ikkyo, the first technique of aikido, can be done in many ways and against many attack forms. Here are most of them.

Yonkyo Yonkyo
The aikido technique yonkyo and how to apply it, described in text and video.

nikyo Nikyo
Video clips and explanations on the basic aikido pinning technique nikyo, against a couple of particularly difficult attacks - mainly katadori, shoulder grip, and munedori, collar grip. A relaxed way of training nikyo is also shown.

sankyo Sankyo
Video clips and explanations on the basic aikido pinning technique sankyo, against a couple of typical attacks. A relaxed way of using sankyo to control the partner's body is also shown.

Attacks
Attacks in aikido.
Kogeki, the attacks in aikido. Photos and comments about the most common attack forms used in aikido, and tips about how to do them.

Aikido videosVideo clips
kotegaeshi Video clips from an aikido seminar in the Czech Republic, where I do rather improvised versions of some basic and some not so basic techniques. Also some other aikido videos.

Kotegaeshi
The aikido technique kotegaeshi against different attacks, described in text and videos.

Tantodori
Tantodori
Aikido defense against knife attacks - some techniques. This is focused on how to take the tanto from the attacker at the end of the technique, something that many aikidoka do without enough care.

Jo 31 kata.Jo 31 kata
The jo 31 kata in four directions. The traditional 31 kata is in two directions - front and back - but that is odd for a kata with so many movements. At my dojo, we have allowed ourselves to modify it into a four directions kata. See how we do it, and see if you approve or not.

Kokyunage.

Ki, life energy
About ki, the life energy, middle syllable in the word aikido, and essential in training. Explanations and exercises.

Tanden, the Center
About tanden, the Center, what it is, how it works and how to exercise it.

Dojo. Running an aikido dojo
The ups and downs of running your own aikido dojo. What my experiences have taught me.

OMOTE - kesagiri. Aiki Batto
Sword exercises with partner and bokken, or solo like iaido. There are some very complex systems of sword exercises in aikido, often demanding a high strain on one's memory at the cost of properly exercising the sword technique fundamentals. This is a simple exercise system we use at my dojo. I call it aikibatto, since it combines aspects of aikido with those of iaido (batto).

Aikido photo albumPhoto album
Photos of me and my friends on the tatami, from my dojo and others, in Sweden and abroad.

Osensei and Einstein
Osensei and Einstein
Aikido principles in celestial mechanics. Originally, I wrote this article as a chronicle for a Swedish Martial Arts magazine, then I translated it for the Aikikai Hombu dojo leaflet The Aikido. It compares some aspects of aikido with those laws of gravity revealed by Einstein.

Aikido booksAikido books of interest
A commented selection of my favorite books about aikido, and about things related to it.

Aikido is true
The overwhelming experiences of the beginner. How I got into aikido. Translation from the foreword to my Swedish book on aikido.

Aikido - die friedliche kampfkunst. Aikido - die friedliche kampfkunst
German I wrote a book on aikido i Swedish, which was translated into German by Sabine Neumann. Here you find the complete German translation of the book, page by page, both as regular webpages, and as an Acrobat PDF file. I'm sorry that there is not yet an English translation of the book.

Stefan StenuddAbout me
A short Aikido biography on yours truly.

Links
A personal selection of Aikido links. It's not a big list at all, but I hope that you find these links of interest. I do.

Visitor response
Express your own views. Please let me know what you feel or think about some or all of what you have found here.




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Stefan Stenudd
Stefan Stenudd
is an author and aikido instructor, 6 dan Aikikai. He also teaches the sword art iaido. He has written several books about aikido as well as other Japanese and Chinese traditions.



The Secret Teachings of Aikido
Secret Teachings of Aikido
Osensei Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, about the philosophy of his art.
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More on this website:
Aikido
Aikibatto sword exercises
Myth
Greek Philosophers
Aristotle and his Poetics
The Taoist source
Qi - life energy
Fiction by Stenudd
Art by Stenudd
Astrology and horoscopes

Training the Samurai Mind
Training the Samurai Mind
Bushido sourcebook with writings on the martial art and mind, from the samurai era.
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Life Energy Encyclopedia, by Stefan Stenudd.
LIFE ENERGY ENCYCLOPEDIA
Qi, prana, spirit, and other life forces around the world explained and compared.
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