This section gathers several video galleries displaying Aikido practice. Some of these propose exclusive archive footage that was never seen before, demonstrations by famous Sensei during seminars around the world, and a selection of my own favourite videos found elsewhere on the web.
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| Aikido - Videos | | Written by Guillaume Erard | | Monday, 21 May 2012 03:20 |  I recently took part in a Taiwanese documentary dealing with life in Japan since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The journalist, Hsiu-Ching Airy Hsiao, kindly sent the whole footage that they shot on that day, including a short Aikido demonstration that D.j. Lortie and myself improvised for the documentary.
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| Aikido - Videos | | Written by Guillaume Erard | | Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:00 |  Thanks to the impressive investigative work carried out by Stanley Pranin, the influence of Daito-ryuAiki-jujutsu in the development of Aikido is now fairly well know and understood. This has led some Aikido practitioners to focus their attention towards learning the Daito-ryu techniques in order to complete what they might regard as a certain lack in nowadays' Aikido teaching. Among these, Olivier Gaurin, a long time student at the AikikaiHombu Dojo and author of several books on Aikido decided to continue in Mr Pranin's footsteps, to learn the ancient techniques and to promote them to the Aikido public. I had been aware of Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu for many years through the work of Stanley Pranin but it is Olivier Gaurin who introduced me to the Daito-ryu teachers of the Takumakai school and it wasn't long before we both decided to document our experience, which eventually came under the form of the following documentary.
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| Aikido - Videos | | Written by Guillaume Erard | | Monday, 01 November 2010 12:14 |  This section contains exclusive Aikido videos featuring some historical footage shot by master André Nocquet, 8th dan, the first foreign uchi deshi of Morihei Ueshiba at the AikikaiHombu Dojo. Master featured include Morihei Ueshiba, Minoru Mochizuki, André Nocquet, Kawaishi Mikonosuke and Nobuyoshi Tamura. The music was scored by Guillaume Erard.
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| Aikido - Videos | | Written by Guillaume Erard | | Monday, 01 November 2010 12:47 |  This section contains a selection of my favourite Aikido videos on the web. I was fortunate enough to be able to train with these Sensei quite extensively and in spite of the obvious differences in their respective styles, I learnt a lot from trying to find the common point rather than the differences. Also, more than trying to reproduce what they all did, I tried to understand the reasons as to why they did things in their specific way. I hope that through this selection, you can get an appreciation of how Aikido fundamentals can be expressed in a variety of ways.
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| Aikido - Videos | | Written by Guillaume Erard | | Monday, 01 November 2010 11:50 |  This section contains videos of Aikido seminars and classes that I have shot and edited over the years. I have also scored and performed the soundtrack music for most of them. I started shooting these videos as a way to remember these courses but also in order to perfect my ukemi in comparison to other practitioners. This proved invaluable and I thought I would share these videos rather than keep them on my hard drive. It was also an opportunity to use some of the music that I wrote over the years to accompany these performances.
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