Grass Valley's Family Martial Arts School -- Focus, Fitness & Fun
Here’s a brief video of weapons practice. The technique is yokomenuchi with a bokken. Yokomenuchi is a strike which lands anywhere from the temple to the side of the neck.
Aikido is largely based upon sword movement. Our weapons practice helps us understand open-hand aikido much better than just practicing without weapons. Oh, and weapons practice is a ton of fun!
Click here for the instructional video for the bokken practice.
Mark Zwagerman is teaching weapons at Aikido’Ka until Jane returns in April.
Here Mark demonstrates the strike yokomenuchi with a bokken. Note the concentration on keeping connection with our partner’s center line.
Aikido is largely based upon sword movements. If you really want to improve your aikido, practice weapons! And, as an added benefit, weapons practice is tremendous fun.