Combative Aikido

Our Combative Aikido has its roots in traditional Aikido where the concept is to use your attacker's energy against him. How our program is different is that we use more modern realistic training methods to make the art easier to learn, and practical for today's self-defense purposes.

   In the traditional sense, Aikido is more of an energy learning experience. For example, you will learn to use your opponents energy against them by developing a sense of how to manipulate their energy.  If you were to travel to Japan and train in Iwama Aikido or at the Hombudojo, you would find two very different styles of the martial art know as aikido.  They are not necessarily different martial arts, although the approach to the techniques and the training is very different.

At Keishidojo Martial Arts & Fitness Center here in Sumter S.C. we are more into ensuring that the martial art you take the time to learn is as useful and practical as possible while not abandoning what the founder was trying to accomplish.  In order to accomplish this, we incorporated more aliveness training and realism into our Combative Aikido techniques.

Therefore, learning Combative Aikido from Keishidojo means learning a philosophy of combat.  As a beginner student, you will learn joint locks, throws, and immobilizations in rough form but in a way that will make them practical.  As you enter the next stage of your training (intermediate level/blue belt), we then begin showing you the more graceful traditional techniques of Aikido.

By combing the two concepts, our students grasp the reason of why we place "combative" in our name.
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