Brisbane Aikido Republic

 Brisbane Aikido Republic
1593 Logan Rd. 
Mt. Gravatt 
Brisbane, Qld
Australia
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Brisbane Aikido Republic


Brisbane Aikido Republic strives to learn, study and promote the martial art of aikido through 
diligent practice, 
knowledge and active links to the founder of aikido.  We welcome serious men and women to join us for aiki practice.

aikido n.  A Japanese martial way studying the principle of joining rather than fighting with an opponent.  
ai "joining" +ki "energy" + do "way"

re·pub·lic n.  
A group of people working together towards a c
ommon goal


News

  • What we're reading We recently signed up to the delicious bookmarking service to keep track of what aikido stuff we are reading on the net. Follow with this handy link http://www.delicious ...
    Posted by Daniel A. James
  • Beat Them With A Stick The trouble with Aikido is that its too nice.  From the very first day we are told it is a defensive martial art.  Its a great sales pitch and a ...
    Posted 19 Aug 2010 21:29 by Ben Hamley
  • Self Defence 101 Self defence is a popular enquiry of the dojo and while Aikido isn't self defence it could be. Heres a top 10 list things to think about for self ...
    Posted 9 Aug 2010 22:40 by Daniel A. James
  • Why can't the Aikido world get together? Well known and respected Aikido Historian Stanley Pranin published a somewhat provocative article on the Aikido Journal a week or so ago entitled "Why can't the aikido world get ...
    Posted 1 Aug 2010 03:57 by Daniel A. James
  • How to Throw? An elusive problem in Aikido and we spend years on the mat trying to work this out. However the answer is really very simple. Take the centre of mass of ...
    Posted 26 Jul 2010 18:56 by Daniel A. James
  • Aiki in Austria I've spent the last week in Vienna for a Sports Engineering conference, its been a great time though hectic with an number of presentations and reports to give, reconnecting ...
    Posted 19 Jul 2010 09:39 by Daniel A. James
  • Wednesday night Aikido Hi everyone, Well after a bit of hiatus from teaching its well and truly time to stop ronining around and get back to something more regular. I found a nice ...
    Posted 8 Jul 2010 22:19 by Daniel A. James
  • Exploring Aikido Yuishinkai Syllabus The Aikido Yuishinkai syllabus was introduced to the west by Koretoshi Maruyama Sensei in early 2002 and has seen considerable refinement since then. It includes a formal progression of aikido ...
    Posted 7 Jul 2010 03:17 by Daniel A. James
  • Meditation on Ikkyo Finally I have edited down some of the footage Aran shot of Paul and I messing around with Ikkyo.  Actually it didn't take too long since there was only ...
    Posted 30 Jun 2010 23:37 by Daniel A. James
  • Dreamworld Aikido Recently whilst hosting a visiting Sensei we took him sightseeing at Dreamworld, a local theme park near Brisbane. It was a fun filled day with lots of excitement, scary rides ...
    Posted 12 Jun 2010 04:43 by Daniel A. James
  • Shimamoto Sensei's FudoShin A few weekends ago Shimamoto Shihan visited Bayside Budokai. Sensei is a full-time priest and aikido instructor in the Osaka area at Shosenji temple and has visited Australia several ...
    Posted 7 Jun 2010 06:09 by Paul Crawley
  • Discovering Aiki Last night we explored Tenchi nage from Kotai to  Kontai levels  from Maruyama Sensei's teaching at the Japan seminar. Pretty quickly though we had to examine how to attack ...
    Posted 3 Jul 2010 21:31 by Daniel A. James
  • Aikido as an Elite Sport Aikido as an Elite SportTo help improve his golf swing Tiger Woods reputedly used to hit hundreds of  golf balls a night into the dark without seeing where they ...
    Posted 12 May 2010 03:17 by Daniel A. James
  • Bokken Nage - Aikido revisited An armed samurai restrained by a variety of hand holds might be prevented from drawing his weapon and thus be rendered immobile or worse. Given that the aikido arts are ...
    Posted 25 Jun 2010 02:42 by Daniel A. James
  • Tenchinage - More Kontai and Kutai level techniques In 2009 Maruyama sensei introduced the Kutai and Kontai levels of Aikido (66% more Aikido techniques at the National Seminar). Kontai in particular seemd somewhat elusive ( Kontai - Seeking the soul ...
    Posted 7 May 2010 05:04 by Daniel A. James
  • Japan Seminar Tonights my last sleep in Brisbane for  a while and its off to Japan tomorrow for the Friendship seminar with Maruyama, Oshima and Williams Sensei. Huge thankyou to Hashimoto Sensei ...
    Posted 27 Apr 2010 17:50 by Daniel A. James
  • Attacks in Aikido Something I hope to do with the pads in next class is work on our attacks, watching weapons practice the other night and reflecting on our sessions where we padded ...
    Posted 13 Apr 2010 21:58 by Daniel A. James
  • Patrick McCarthy Sensei at the Brisbane Martial Arts Expo hi everyone I went to the Patrick MCarthy session at the Brisbane Martial Arts expo last weekend. Sensei is well known internationally for his work on the origins of Karate ...
    Posted 22 Apr 2010 22:38 by Daniel A. James
  • Combat Aikido The term combat aikido is a bit of an oxymoron because its a combat art after all. The problem is we spend most of our time working on the basics ...
    Posted 19 Apr 2010 22:17 by Daniel A. James
  • Aikiphysics on aikidojournal.com A huge spike in site traffic caused me to hunt down the source..aikiphysics on the aikido journal...noice!!
    Posted 31 Mar 2010 16:28 by Daniel A. James
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Welcome 
Interested in Aikido? Already doing Aikido? Doing another martial art but want to try some Aikido? Brisbane Aikido Republic  invites serious men and women to join them in learning and exploring the art of Aikido together. Classes are available in the Mt. Gravatt area of Brisbane. If you are serious about trying aikido you are welcome at our dojo. Classes follow a traditional structure with the spirit of learning together.

Nearby Suburbs: Upper Mount Gravatt, Mount Gravatt, Macgregor, Sunnnybank, Nathan, Eight mile plains Coopers Plains, Mansfiled, Wishart, Rochedale, Burbank, Salisbury, Ipswich, Acacia Ridge, Rocklea, Sherwood Holland park, Camp Hill, Moorooka, Robertson, Algester, Calamvale, Archerfield, Ipswich




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"Don’t fight. Use ki. 
Don’t resist. Take ukemi.", Koretoshi Maruyama, 
Founder Aikido Yuishinkai 
advice for training

"Your aikido will only improve when your concept of aikido improves"
Kenjiro Yoshigasaki
Soke, Ki Society Internationale

"In your training do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace." 
Morehei Ueshiba, 
Founder of Aikido
from the Art of Peace, J. Stevens

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