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Aikido: The Complete Basic Techniques

3 reviews
Gozo Shioda, Yasuhisa Shioda

Kodansha International, 2006

Both specialty martial arts and general-interest libraries will find it a fine basic reference.
Aikido: The Complete Basic Techniques comes from a master and teacher and the top student of modern Akikido's founder, so it's backed with much experience and authority as it explains all the most important basic techniques of the martial arts and surveys their underlying teaching. The Basic Throws which are key to early Aikido practice are based on a revised edition of an earlier Japanese-only ...

Dynamic aikido

16 reviews
Gozo Shioda

Kodansha International, 1968

Breaking down the art
I own several Aikido instructional and philosophical books and this book, I found, is the most helpful. It breaks down the fundamentals of the art with descriptive pictures and commentary. I thoroughly recommend this book to beginners and advanced Aikidoka.

Aikido Total - El Curso Maestro
Gozo Shioda; Yasuhisa Shioda

Paidotribo Editorial, 2004

Uno de los fundamentos del Aikido es el principio del mantenimiento de una línea central recta del cuerpo. Para la mayoría de la gente, incluso si intentan mantenerse erguidos, su línea central no es realmente recta. Si esto ocurre, el propósito del aikido, el desarrollo de la potencia de la respiración, resulta imposible. El aikido es el ejercicio-deporte para hombres y mujeres de todas las edades que se basa en el movimiento ...

Total Aikido: The Master Course (Bushido--The Way of the Warrior)

28 reviews
Gozo Shioda

Kodansha International, 1997

A brief comment
This is a very fine book on aikido. Clear text, crisp and easy to understand photos, and detailed and well written text. I had a specific reason for reading this text--I needed help with all the Japanese terminology for the moves, which I'm weak on--and this book presents that quite well. Both the attacks and defenses are given the full names. I note one reviewer here who says that the spelling ...