Tag: Katsumi Niikura

  • Budo Video

    Budo Video

           2016 New York Budo (AIKI + JUDO) Demo {youtube}Csq_JaRamLg|600|450|1{/youtube}     Ryokukai Aikdo Nidan Test {youtube}D7yoZn5HxEI|600|450|0{/youtube}     Ryokukai Aikido Shodan Test {youtube}Mvv_9-LPdRA|600|450|0{/youtube}            Ryokukai Testing Highlights {youtube}gNvQFXpe71s|600|450|0{/youtube}            

  • About Aikido

    About Aikido

      AIKIDO Aikido is the harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. This martial art utilizes an opponent’s momentum to cause imbalance resulting in the opponent being rendered harmless.      

  • About Chanbara

    About Chanbara

    CHANBARA     Over thirty years ago Japanese martial artists and sword masters created a better training style for the next millennium. The founder, Tanabe Tetsundo with some of the strongest martial artists in Japan called this new school of thought Goshindo, later nicknamed Chanbara. These martial artists and masters were very traditional. They also knew that…

  • About Iaido

    About Iaido

    IAIDO  *Students  can learn Iaido techniques in the Aikido classes.  

  • About Sensei

    About Sensei

             Sensei Katsumi Niikura (Sensei) Has been aware of the presence of ki energy since his childhood. While playing outdoors, he often wondered how the carp in the river managed to stay immobile against the flow of the current. Did it have something to do with how it breathed?  He had been interested in…