Is Aikido a Martial Art?
Sensei Henry Ellis – 2001
Co-author of Positive Aikido.
PART 1
At first sight of the above title I am sure that a lot of Aikidoist’s will be angry, they will assume that this is yet another attack on the credibility of Aikido by other martial artist’s.
On this occasion they are totally wrong, I have been a student of Aikido since 1957, In those early days I first (more…)
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