Mitsugi Saotome – The Sword of Aikido

Mitsugi Saotome – The Sword of Aikido

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Mitsugi Saotome Sensei – a direct student of Aikido’s Founder – demonstrates and explains his system for using two-swords at once.

Beginning with basic stances, he moves to defenses against attacks with a single sword and eventually to defenses against multiple opponents. He also illustrates the direct connection of two-sword movement to Aikido’s empty-handed throwing technique.

Besides recently filmed instruction, the video contains rare footage of Saotome Sensei’s 1988 Two-Sword Seminar at the Chicago Budokan.

Enjoyable for the beauty and ingenuity of Saotome Sensei’s movement, this hour-long instructional video explores martial exercises for integrating and balancing the body’s right and left sides.