By Jean-Marc SERIO

Introduction
 L'étiquette
 Principles
Training
 Posture
 Seizures
Strikes
Videos Taijutsu
Video Buki Wasa
 Techniques
 What to practise with?
 Technical progression
 Arms

The Arms.
The Aikidoka will have to practise with the different arms that represent the martial tradition of feodal japan.
 - The Bokken (wodden sabre) replaces the katana of Samouraïs for security reasons.
 - The Jo (a stick of about 1.40m).
 - Le Tanto (awoodden dagger) represents a knife.
    There are two ways to use arms in Aikido:
 - The "dori" : bare-handed techniques against an armed partner (disarming).
 - The "kumi": coded figures called katas, executed between two armed partners.

The Ken : the sabre, the Samouraï's arm which protects his body and reflects his soul. In our practice, we use the Bokken, which is a woodden arm representing the Samouraï's sabre.

The practise of Ken, otherwise Kumi tachi, (the two partners have a ken) teaches us how to place our body and our hands.
Tachi dori, (disarming) a long and dangerous arm, develops our sense of awareness and of distance.