Wellington aikido first 2025 class Monday 13 January

Happy New Year all, we hoipe you had a restful break. Riai Aikido Wellington City Dojo will start its 2025 classes to full schedule on ... Read more

O Sensei Revisited Down Under

Robert Nadeau Shihan, 8th Dan from USA, visited New Zealand in March 2019 to conduct the O Sensei Revisited Down Under Workshop, in Auckland. Nadeau ... Read more

NZ Martial Arts Institute signs agreement with Transparency International

Sensei Henry Lynch (right) at the signing of an agreement between  NZMAI (NZ Martial Arts Institute) and Transparency International with (from letf) Suzanne Snively, Chair ... Read more

Book Review: 4 Books for Young People

Terence Webster-Doyle with illustrations by Rod Cameron. Atrium Society Publications, 1988, 1991 and 1992. Eye of the Hurricane Why is Everybody always Picking on Me ... Read more

Book Review: Angry White Pyjamas

Robert Twigger. Indigo 1997 This is considered an ‘Aikido Classic’ and takes us on the journey of the author who commences the year-long Tokyo Riot ... Read more

Book Review: The Way of Aikido- Life Lessons from an American Sensei.

George Leonard, Dutton, 1999 An original and surprising book that provides a fascinating insight into the Samurai code, as Ross tracks in search of a ... Read more

Book Review: Martial Arts Instruction

Applying Educational Theory and Communication Techniques in the Dojo: Lawrence A. Kane. Ymaa Publication Centre, Inc, 1997 This is a must-have book for all instructors ... Read more

Book Review: Children of the Martial Arts – An Aikido Point of View

Gaku Homma. North Atlantic Books, 1993 An excellent book that gives a different perspective on the value of martial arts training for young people.

Book Review: A Dictionary of the Martial Arts

Louis Frederic. Translator and editor Paul Crompton. Charles E Tuttle Company Inc., 1998 An exceptional reference book that covers a large number of martial arts ... Read more

Book Review: Aikido Exercises for teaching and training

C.M. Shifflett. Round Earth Publishing, 1999 This is truly one of the better books on teaching Aikido. It doesn’t matter whether you teach Aikido to ... Read more

The recipe for aikido

Ingredients: Method: 1. Sensei We all know O Sensei is the creator of Aikido and Robert Nadeau Shihan is his direct student. Our leader in New Zealand is Henry Lynch ... Read more

A couple of concepts

Having the opportunity to write and engage you all for the second time is an honour and privilege.  I have had several serious injuries on my Aiki path which I ... Read more

Managing the mind

Our Sensei Robert Nadeau Shihan talks a lot about how the mind and the body are different systems. We tend to spend a lot of time focusing on the push ... Read more

Peace

Aikido is many things to many people! It evolves with every new teacher and every new person that participates in training but I believe there is one core value that ... Read more

Irimi and Atemi, Intention and Presence

Irimi and Atemi, Intention and Presence: what place do these concepts have in my journey through Aikido? I was once told that O-Sensei said Aikido was Irimi and Atemi. The ... Read more

Aikido: Harmony, Unity, Peace

The term Aikido has been interpreted in many different ways. According to the Collins Dictionary, Aikido means “the way to join or receive spirits or forces”. The Oxford defines it ... Read more

Connections

Sometime in 1979, Papakura Auckland: “That’s the martial art I think would be good to start” said my Ju Jitsu teacher after class one evening. Dave Butler sensei invited the ... Read more

The Power of One

Just what is “The Power of One” and how can we use our personal influence to grow Aikido in our regions. If our art was dying, what could you do ... Read more

A very simple thought – A very simple Roban

Recently I asked myself why I practice Aikido. Why is it that I am still doing it. Over the years other sports and passions have come and gone…. but why ... Read more

NZ Martial Arts Institute signs agreement with Transparency International

Sensei Henry Lynch (right) at the signing of an agreement between  NZMAI (NZ Martial Arts Institute) and Transparency International with (from letf) Suzanne Snively, Chair TINZ,  Kyoshi Angelina Carden, President ... Read more

Becoming a Yellow Belt (6 Kyu)

By Hannah Lynch, Riai Aikido Wellington When I was little (about 5 years old) I would always pester my dad (Henry Lynch, Riai Aikido) and say I really wanted to ... Read more

Aikido – Great For All Ages

If you are around 50 and want to keep fit, balanced, boost your self-confidence and learn to blend with others in a martial art that is based on peace and ... Read more

Riai Aikido: A gentle art for kids – Jason Oxenham

Tucked away in Eden Terrace is a peaceful room complete with muted tones and potted lilies – it’s the Riai Aikido Learning Centre. The facility, known as a dojo, echoes ... Read more

Irimi and Atemi, Intention and Presence

Irimi and Atemi, Intention and Presence: what place do these concepts have in my journey through Aikido? I was once told that O-Sensei said Aikido was Irimi and Atemi. The ... Read more