Friday, 05 February 2010 | André Nocquet

Our mental representation of a man attacking or defending is a visual process based on the conception that we have of the human body when it is resting but this static vision is...
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Monday, 25 January 2010 | Guillaume Erard

Dans cette vidéo tournée par Jean-Michel Jacquelin, mon ami et mentor Olivier Gaurin explique le terme d'ukemi et les concepts qui y sont associés. Olivier vit au Japon depuis de très...
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 | Henry Ellis

The history of British Aikido offers a rich and proud legacy for the genuine students of both today and of the future. A well documented history from its inception in 1955 by the...
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Monday, 28 September 2009 | Guillaume Erard

I am absolutely delighted to be able to present you this series of long lost videos, part of master André Nocquet's archives. Michel Desroches, my first teacher, who owns a fair amount of...
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Friday, 28 August 2009 | Guillaume Erard

Upon my return to France, I was invited to teach by my friend Aurore at her Gonojukan dojo in Besançon (25). Seven Aikidoka from Ireland made the trip for the occasion! During these few...
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Monday, 03 August 2009 | Guillaume Erard

Please accept my apologizes for the voluntarily provocative title but I think it sums up well what a little research on the word Budo can teach you. The word Budo is now ubiquitous in the...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 | Aurore Mamet

This article is a bit special since that for once, I will be the one to answer questions. I went last June to give a one day course in Besançon  (France) as I was invited there by my...
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Friday, 27 March 2009 | Philippe Gouttard

I first thought of writing something on this theme after realising that contrary to what I thought initially, there were some interesting differences in the way my techniques were performed...
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Monday, 02 March 2009 | Guillaume Erard

After a fantastic day spent visiting the famous Himeji Castle, I feel really excited to be on the way to Kyoto. Although Tokyo is demographically, politically and economically the most...
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Friday, 27 February 2009 | Guillaume Erard

I found out lately that the traffic on this website had increased significantly (up to 5 times) and it left me quite bemused for a while. Upon checking the visits history, I realised that...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009 | Pasquale Robustini and Marco Marini

Last December, the beautiful city of Rome became the theater of an event that is to mark in our Aikido calendars. This course was in fact the occasion of a visit by William Gleason, 6th dan...
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Wednesday, 21 January 2009 | Olivier Gaurin

Olivier Gaurin is a scholar of Aikido, author of several books on Aikido[1],[6],[9] as well as fictions set in medieval Japan[7],[8],[2],[3] and historical...
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Saturday, 17 January 2009 | Guillaume Erard

Meet Philippe Orban, 6th dan Aikikai and very close student of Christian Tissier for many years. Although he could have stayed in the comfort of teaching regular classes at the Cercle...
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 | Guillaume Erard

Not long ago, I got the opportunity to have a chat with one of the most notorious female Aikido experts, Micheline Tissier, who holds the rank of 6th dan Aikikai. She was the first...
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Friday, 05 December 2008 | Philippe Gouttard

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Saturday, 29 November 2008 | Philippe Gouttard

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