Millennium Martial Arts School
of Aikido, Jujitsu, Karate, Kickboxing & Tai-chi
for Adults & Kids in Vaughan
yoshinkan aikido
Yoshinkan Aikido is a unique martial art in that it can trace its lineage directly back to that prewar period of the Jigoku Dojo (Hell Dojo), and at the same time be recognized as an Aikido style in its own right.
The secret of training is simple - more training!
In order to feel the energy of these aikido techniques, is not enough that the aikido moves are copied and repeated. Joy, energy, sheer power and never ending enthusiasm is needed to make Aikido special. Training in Aikido gives the student a chance to develop and extend their personal and professional skills.
Yoshinkan Aikido has become well-known throughout the world, and people of many nationalities are training. "Every year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police sends ten of its members (each one at least third dan in kendo or judo) to spend one year as "Special Students" in the Yoshinkan Headquarters Dojo in Tokyo".
Gozo Shioda (1915-1994),
spent eight years (1932-1941) as a direct student of Morihei Ueshiba,
the founder of Aikido At the first postwar Japanese Martial Arts
Exposition he took the prize for "Outstanding Demonstration" and
encouraged by the support of people from financial and political world,
founded Yoshinkan Dojo. Having mastered the essence of aikido from
Ueshiba Sensei, Gozo Shioda, demonstrated his aikido in front of the Crown Prince of Japan, Senator
Robert Kennedy, and Princes Alexandra among others, and was highly praised by them and by many others who visited his Dojo. July 17, 1994 the day that Yoshinkan Aikido founder, Gozo Shioda Sensei died, was the end of an era.
As well as being a recognized master, Gozo Shioda was also one of the last living links between the present generation of aikido and the prewar aikijutsu training of Morihei Ueshiba Sensei.
