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Start immediately with no joining fee Uniform and equipment provided Pay just half price for 6 months when you join with a friend |
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For all enquiries, please email or
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General Information
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Morihei Ueshiba
O’Sensei |
Aikido was
founded in Japan by Morihei Ueshiba O’Sensei. On the surface,
Aikido is a martial art concerned solely with self defence. Students learn immobilisation
techniques and throwing techniques to a wide variety of attacks, from the
front or from behind, with or without weapons, by one or many attackers.
Weapons training necessarily partners the open handed training and involves
the Aiki sword and staff. At its deeper
levels, Aikido is an holistic approach to physical, mental and spiritual
development. The self defence techniques, when studied correctly, provide
growth for the body, mind and soul. |
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There are
different styles of Aikido. The Aikikai forms the umbrella certification body
and has always been headed by the founder’s family line. Soke Morihiro Saito
Sensei spent 23 years with the founder in Iwama as a live-in student or uchi
deshi and developed Iwama Style Aikido, also sometimes called Takemusu
Aikido. After O’Sensei’s
death on 26 April 1969, Morihiro Saito Sensei became the keeper of the Aiki
Shrine and continued as the chief instructor in the founder’s Iwama dojo. He
died on 13 May 2002, leaving some of his direct students to teach in
Australia, including Saburo Takayasu Sensei in Sydney and Michael Field
Sensei in Melbourne. |
O’Sensei and
Morihiro Saito Sensei |
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Michael Field
Sensei and |
At Kihon Aikido we teach only the complete Aikido
curriculum, including its essential weapons system. Students receive
instruction in accordance with the teachings of the founder, Morihei Ueshiba
O’Sensei, his technical heir, Morihiro Saito Sensei, and his official
representative in Australia, Michael Field Sensei. |
Michael Farrugia
Sensei
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A student to Michael
Field Sensei, Michael Farrugia Sensei began studying Aikido in Fitzroy, one
of Melbourne’s inner suburbs, in March 1993. He began instructing in
Melbourne in June 1999 as a 1st dan and has participated in seminars taught
by Morihiro Saito Sensei, Ulf Evenas Sensei, Hitohiro Saito Sensei, Hiroki
Nemoto Sensei and Saburo Takayasu Sensei. Awarded his 4th dan
in June 2008, Michael also holds a 5th dan in Aiki sword and staff. He
opened Kihon Aikido in Warradale SA in December 2003 and in Mt Martha
Vic in December 2008. |
Michael Field
Sensei and Michael Farrugia Sensei in Fitzroy,
Melbourne, September 2003 |
