Shuryukan Yoshinkai Aikido

The Zamil Air Conditioners, CoolCare, and Middle East Air Conditioners have graciously sponsored Shuryukan Dojo's community activities, and with the cooperation of Industrial & Electrical Control Systems Centre (INDICO), we are looking forward for more demonstrations and seminars.   This would not have been possible without the effort of Mark Anthony Condenato, and Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Alcasabas - both SYA aspiring students.

Zamil Air Conditioners (ZAC) was founded in 1974 as one of the first air conditioning business to be established in Saudi Arabia and today is a leading international manufacturer of air conditioning systems and is Number 1 in the Middle East. 

This is a community service to realize our current project, if interested in participating or you need to know more detail, please give us a shout or email tudor_555@yahoo.com.au.  Thank you. 

Figure 1:  Kotegaeshi, Figure 2: Kokyu Nage (Mel shite, Ivan uke)

Shuryukan Dojo's journey is to master and understand the basics utilizing the Yoshinkan system; and, to serve our community through the practice of aikido principles where every member strives to be in proper alignment with their surroundings - physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Yoshinkan Aikido is occasionally called a "hard" style because the training methods are a product of the gruelling period that Sōke Shioda spent as a student of Morihei Ueshiba before the war.

As a style of aikido, yoshinkan is more akin to the prewar Aiki Budo techniques taught by O Sensei, and therefore also generally closer to aikijujutsu than those styles of aikido developed post-war. The unusual emphasis placed on correct form rather than correct flow and timing further contributes to its image as a "hard" style.

Shioda-sensei formed the Yoshinkan Aikido because he felt that there needed to be greater consistency in the training process for students, so he created a structured method in which beginning students would learn the foundation techniques. Techniques are made up of elements such as the initiating attack, the applicable control and whether it is a pin or throw. They are further divided into two groups called ichi (number 1) and ni (number 2) techniques. Ichi (Number 1) techniques have a feeling of the energy moving away from you, often with your partner, or uke, pulling. Ni (Number 2) techniques have a feeling of the energy coming towards you. The feeling for an ichi (number 1) technique is that you go with the pull and for ni (number 2) you divert or pivot away from the push.

In 1990, Sōke Shioda founded both the International Yoshinkai Aikido Federation (IYAF) to facilitate the learning of Yoshinkan aikido outside of Japan. Today, both the All Japan Yoshinkan Aikido Federation and the IYAF are now led by Yasuhisa Shioda, the founder's son. Under him, the Yoshinkan Honbu dojo, located in Shinjuku Tokyo, runs an annual 11-month intensive course called the Senshusei course derived from the course used to train the Tokyo Metropolitan Riot Police.

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