Aikido Weapons
Training
The weapons taught at
White
Oak Aikido in Reading and Whitton
are mainly based on those taught by Saito
Sensei (Iwama). Weapons training
forms an important part of our Aikido
training and is included in the
gradings from 5th kyu upwards.
We
use three kinds of weapons in our
training:
Bokken
(wooden sword) - Aiki-ken
Jo (short stick) - Aiki-jo
Tanto (usually a wooden or rubber
knife)
A
list of the main training techniques
is given below.
Bokken
- 7 suburi
- 7 awase
- 3
'alternative' awase
- 5 Kumi Tachi
- Happo Giri
- Tachi dori
- Ki mu subi no
tachi
- Kata
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O
Sensei - meditating before a
bokken demonstration.
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Jo
- 20 suburi
- 8 awase
- 10 kumi jo
- 31 kata
- 31 kata
partner practice
- 13 kata
- 13 kata
partner practice
- Jo dori
- Jo randori
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Jo
training outdoors.
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Tanto
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Tanto dori -
disarming an attacker armed
with a knife.
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