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About Aikido (Aikijutsu)
Most sources about Aikido are inaccurate. Wikipedia is a good example – almost everything there is false. You’ve probably heard the usual myths: that Aikido is a set of self-defense techniques, that it’s safe for the attacker, purely defensive, or has some “spiritual” dimension. None of that is true.
Most Aikido schools do not teach Aikido. Their methods are flawed from the start. You’re led in circles by instructors who spent decades going nowhere. Real progress is almost impossible. Without knowledge, nothing can be seen. A fraud and a master look identical to the untrained eye.
The confusion comes from how hard Aikido is to grasp. At its core is a vicious cycle. Without the right techniques, you can’t build the skills. Without the skills, you can’t grasp the principles. And without the principles, you can’t tell if the techniques you’re practicing are right.
In most martial arts, you can go far on talent, grit, or time. In Aikido, none of that matters without knowledge.
Now it’s time to show you why Aikido is brilliant. But first, a few basics.
Two factors decide the outcome of a fight: strength and skill. Strength means power, speed, endurance. Skill is your ability to coordinate movement, timing, and control.
There are three levels of a fighter: beginner, strong, and pro. Strength separates the beginner from the strong. Three to five years of training can get you there.
The pro level is named for its presence among professional fighters, though many never reach it. What separates the pro from the strong? The strong may be faster, stronger, even more technically polished, but when it comes to actual fighting, they lose. Skill is what makes the difference. If the path from beginner to strong is clear, going from strong to pro is something else entirely. It’s not about more strength or better technique, and there’s no timeline for it. It’s a shift into another tier of skill – one that most never reach. It’s widely believed that progress at this stage comes through sparring and depends on individual ability.
But there is an additional way and that’s where the genius of Aikido comes in. The same Aikido techniques that are useless in a real fight, that can only be done in class on cooperative partners, that are so excessively complicated that many struggle to perform them for years, their actual purpose is to build your skills. They are not meant to be used directly in combat, but they are a method for developing fighting ability.
The more practical techniques of other martial arts don’t do this as well as Aikido’s “impractical” ones. If strength is a gun, skill is the ability to shoot. Most martial arts hand you a weapon. Aikido, however, teaches you how to shoot.
Aikido techniques are designed to change how your body moves and how your mind controls it. That’s what we train. If you want to understand martial arts rather than imitate it, you’re welcome to join. In Aikido, nothing works without knowledge.

🎥Here is a small selection of Aikido techniques by French master Michel Erb. If you enjoy the beauty, precision, and flow of these techniques and want to learn this beautiful martial art yourself, come join us at the RPS Club! rpsclub.ca

Introducing Aikijutsu Club in Ottawa, https://rpsclub.ca/
Location: 1373 Ogilvie Rd Unit 1, K1J 7P5 (inside TRYumph Gymnastics Academy)
Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays 7:45-8:45 PM
Aikijutsu originated from the Yamaguchi-Tissier Line of Aikido. Here is a demonstration of this lineage by Christian Tissier.

Introducing Aikijutsu Club in Ottawa, https://rpsclub.ca/
Aikijutsu originated from the Yamaguchi-Tissier Line, an advanced version of Aikido. Here is Christian Tissier, one of its prominent representatives.