Huge Aikido Training Conducting in ANTC (Ranger Aikido Dojo) through Nepal Army. Only here (82 Different Unit and Sub-Unit of NA Total 123 Soldiers (Students) practicing together Nippon-kan Aikido
There is no Bokken or Jo; no Keiko-gi to practice in, and of course no Dojo… But they have shovels, hoes and sickles and worn-out T-shirts as well as the vast & generous mother nature. 38 children from different backgrounds are living at Bilay House for different reasons, and 12 high schoolers welcomed me with their bright smiles that day. …
When Nippon Kan was founded, it was just me and a few others. It’s been 43 years since then, and it’s been quite some time since Nippon Kan was no longer a small Aikido group in a town. Unlike a business entity, a Dojo does not pay wages but collects monthly dues from its students. However, a …
A Spring Seminar in 2018 at Ren Sei Kan Dojo in Italy in support of Alzheimer Piacenza. Parma, Italy in Spring is like a rural area in northern Japan where I grew up. You cannot help noticing the pleasant smell of the grass in the air and also the aroma of compost from the fields afar carried by the wind. …
On April 25, 2015, Nepal earthquake of 2015, also called Gorkha earthquake, which registered a moment magnitude of 7.8, struck near the city of Kathmandu in central Nepal. The death toll from the catastrophe reached over 8,500 with over 20,000 people injured. Many World Heritage sites in the region sustained various degrees of damages as well. Since Aikido Nippon Kan …
A jubilant and energetic anniversary celebration event was held to commemorate the 30th year milestone since the founding of International Enshin Karate by Joko Ninomiya Kancho. A celebratory reception was held at DOMO Japanese Country Foods Restaurant with over 100 people from all over the world in attendance to respect and celebrate the Enshin Karate founder, Joko Ninomiya Kancho’s …
A team of 15 Enshin Karate members from Japan stayed at Nippon Kan again this year to participate in this year’s WORLD SABAKI CHALLENGE which will take place on April 21. Tetsuji Hayashi Sensei, a team leader and the Head Master of Enshin Karate Japan, was an uchideshi at Enshin Karate Headquarters in Denver from 1992 for 3 years, …
“Irimi Nage”, “Shiho Nage”, “Kote Gaeshi”, “Ushiro Tekubi Tori”, and probably many, many more… Aikido Nippon Kan is only less than a mile to the southwest from where the sculpturein the photo stands. A well-known Japanese Country Food Restaurant DOMO is also located on the same property. Please come check us out whenever you are in the greater Denver …
Nepalese Army Aikido members (led by ANTC Aikido Nippon Kan Training Center (ANTC) Dan Gurung Head Instructor of Nepalese Army Rangers) are getting involved with various AHAN activities on top of and in-between regularly scheduled hard practices. The photo(s) are from when they held “Girls Mentorship and Awareness Workshop” to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day. Nepalese Army Rangers ANTC …
Nowadays, all kinds of information are accessible from our hand-held mobile devices. Information related to Aikido is no exception. A wide spectrum of information, from texts, still images and video clips is available. And even in a category of videos alone, there are hard-core & flamboyant styles of Aikido on one side and ‘no-touch’ styles of Aikido on …
AHAN Nippon Kan has been serving free Homeless Meals once a month since 1990. Following the monthly, members of Aikido Nippon Kan and DOMO restaurant volunteer staffs helped serve this month’s free meals to the homeless, and 220 meals were served. The total number of meals served to date is now 85,244. While we serve hundreds of meals every month, …
Aikido Nippon Kan’s Homma Kancho visits 4 regiments. Nepali Army Rangers’ ANTC (Aikido Nippon Kan Training Center), de-facto standard Nepali Army’s Aikido Headquarter, led by Dan Gurung, Nepali Army’s Chief Aikido Instructor & an Aikido instructor acknowledged by Aikido Nippon Kan U.S. Headquarters, train 100+ Aikido instructor-candidates annually through a training regimen of 6 hours of training per day for …
We just finished an Aikido Seminar with much success the day before, and late MorihiroSaito Shihan (“Morihiro Shihan”, hereafter) and we were going to leave for a hot spring in the Rocky Mountains in the morning. Morihiro Shihan woke up at 7:00AM as usual, showed up in the living room and came into the kitchen… He grabbed …
Let me state the conclusion first: Practicing “suwari waza座り技” is hard on the knees, and it can be abusive to the structure and normal functions of knees. Therefore, Nippon Kan stopped the practice of “suwari waza” about 25 years ago. Aikido Nippon Kan does not promote or encourage practicing “break-fall ukemi離れ飛び受け身”, either. Wearing joint support sleeves in the locker room …
Photos from a field trip. Aikido Nippon Kan had visited almost all the elementary and middle schools in the Greater Denver area about 40 years ago to do Aikido demonstrations and to offer school children an educational opportunity about Japanese cultures and a Budo of Aikido from Japan, when even the word “Aikido” was not commonly recognized. On a busy …
