Yoshinkan Aikido of British Columbia Association · 養神館合気道B.C. 協会
Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art based upon the principle of harmony through connection, balance, and timing. It is an extremely powerful form of self-defense that is also gentle and non-aggressive: carefully controlling an attacker using the attacker’s own energy. Strength is not emphasized because the use of physical strength is unnecessary. Shioda Aikido is the Aikido of Gozo Shioda; Morihei Ueshiba’s most outstanding student, and preserves the hard style, pre-war teachings of O’Sensei.