TO: All Filipinos
You are invited to join SHURYUKAI YOSHINKAN AIKIDO, an upcoming Martial Arts Club based in Jeddah concentrating only on the Arts of Yoshinkan Aikido. It will be my great pleasure to include you in this club and you could be one of the pioneers for this upcoming Club.

The Training:
Yoshinkan Aikido emphasizes in Basic Movement and posture (KIHON DOSA) so we Start and End each Technique with a strong kamae (Basic Stance). Students are initially trained in KATA based format (Step by Step), an innovation by the Yoshinkan Headquarters, and then gradually move on to more flowing techniques. At the end it goes without saying that our training begins and returns always to basics.

What is Yoshinkan Aikido?

The Yoshinkan 'House for Cultivating the Spirit' was founded after World War II. This style of Aikido is occasionally called the hard style because the training methods are a product of the grueling period of Soke Shioda spent as a student of Morihei Ueshiba (Founder of AIKIDO). Currently it is the only accepted Style of Aikido that is taught to Japanese Riot Police. Yoshinkan Aikido has some 150 basic techniques which are practiced repeatedly; these enable the student to master the remaining ones, which total some 3000 overall. The Yoshinkan style of Aikido emphasizes the self-defenses aspect of the art. It is more practical and grueling than the other styles of Aikido and to an outsider may appear part of a violent Japanese tradition. Yoshinkan Aikido is not a sport. Aikido is the development and strengthening of the body and mind, and the practical side of Aikido must never be forgotten. However, Aikido is for all, irrespective of age, sex, race or culture.