Koichi Tohei Book 7: Way to Union with Ki

This book is the last book written by Koichi Tohei. It is the largest, the most detailed, and also the most difficult one to find. It was only sold to Ki Society members in 2001 – which I was at that time. As with almost all his books, there are chapters on his philosophy and [...]

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Koichi Tohei Book 6: Kiatsu

It was now the mid 80′s and Koichi Tohei had just released a new book. This one was not on Aikido but on Kiatsu – the massage style developed by Tohei. Later there would be a Kiatsu school built on the grounds of the Ki Society HQ in Japan (Ki no Sato). This book showed [...]

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Ushirodori Techniques with Chris Koprowski

Chris Koprowski made the long trip over from Seidokan of Tokyo to teach a seminar at OCBC in June. In the first video, Chris teaches some techniques to deal with a bearhug where uke holds above the elbows. In the 2nd video the techniques are for when uke holds at the elbows.

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Ki Testing with Chris Koprowski

Chris Koprowski from Seidokan Dojo of Tokyo stopped in last week and taught a special class for us. Chris was in town for the annual Seidokan Aikido camp and I twisted his arm to get him to teach at OCBC while he was here. The first part of class he had us going over “ki [...]

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