Dover Kokikai Aikido
Choose a New Path
Aikido is a modern, Japanese self-defense martial art created by
Morihei Ueshiba, O-Sensei, to reflect his spirit of peace and reconciliation. It uses techniques that blend with an attack and redirect it, rather than meeting it head on. The name roughly translates to:
"The Way of Harmonizing with Energy."
Kokikai Aikido is a path to coordinating Mind and Body to achieve effective self-defense techniques that minimize aggressive encounters, instead of responding to violence with more violence. The foundations that are learned on the mat aren't merely useful in a physical attack, they also help develop a frame of mind that can respond in a calm, relaxed way to any stressful or difficult situation.
Kokikai Aikido is a path of discovery, awareness, confidence, and joy.
And very often a link to friendship and community.
Dover Kokikai Aikido is proud to continue this path in the Seacoast area.
A Warrior Kinship
Kokikai Aikido is a welcoming and inclusive community for all who strive to learn the art of aikido. As a non-competitive, self-defense martial art, we only learn strikes and kicks as a means to train how to receive and diffuse attacks.
Kokikai Aikido uses one's own innate power, not speed or strength, to be effective. Often you will see people of all ages and abilities training, learning, and teaching side-by-side as peers.
Because of this, the only things more common than the familiar thud of someone falling to the floor, are smiles and laughter.
Kokikai Aikido- Four Basic Principles
Keep One Point (to develop calmness)
Relax Progressively
Find Correct Posture (in everything)
Develop your Positive Mind
Shuji Maruyama Sensei
Founder/ President
Aikido Kokikai International
"MINIMUM EFFORT,
MAXIMUM EFFECT"
Over the decades he taught in the United States, Sensei Shuji Maruyama developed the four basic principles that are the foundation of how we train today. Kokikai Aikido is an evolution of classic aikido, emphasizing Minimum Effort for Maximum Effect. The traditional techniques become a more accessible and effective version of self-defense.
The four principles, coupled with techniques that utilize distance, timing, momentum, and gravity, make Kokikai Aikido effective regardless of the size or strength differences in a violent encounter.
