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, ... Read more

37th Riai Aikido Friendship Festival

Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th September 2018 The annual Riai Aikido Friendship Festival is a well established Aikido tradition that attracts many enthusiastic Aikidoka from many ... Read more

Motueka Aikido August Gasshuku

Motueka & Nelson Aikido 30th Anniversary Gasshuku with Takase Shihan and Puffett, Roberts, Lynch, McConnell and Baumgartner senseis.

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 ... 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 ... Read more

Book Review: The Tao of Bruce Lee

Davis Miller. Vintage, 2000 Author Miller’s other work prior to this book was The Tao of Muhammad Ali. This is a very well researched and ... Read more

Book Review: Remembering O’Sensei, Living and training with Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido

Edited by Susan Perry with a foreword by Moriteru Ueshiba. Shambhala, 2002 Susan Perry is well known within the Aikido world as an experienced Aikidoist, ... Read more

Book Review: The Philosophy of Aikido

John Stevens. Kodansha International, 2001 John Stevens is a well known author of over 30 books on Aikido, Buddhism, Zen and Asian culture. He is ... Read more

Book Review: Arts of Strength, Arts of Serenity

Nicklaus Suino. Weatherhill, 1996 A compact book of 117 pages that covers a number of Japanese Martial Arts namely, Aikido, Iaido, Judo, Jujutsu, Karate, Kendo, ... 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 ... 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