![]() His decades of work in iaido and jodo developed into a thoroughly integrated approach to combined empty hand, sword and jo. In 1976 he was promoted to 8th dan Aikido. Even so, he personally maintained a good relationship with Hombu and with O Sensei. His training methods, techniques, sword and jo work grew in popularity among many schools, but they were never really accepted at Hombu. Nishio Sensei found himself teaching more and more outside of Hombu Dojo. Aikido was growing in popularity and dojo’s were springing up all over in universities and companies. Atemi based on both karate and sword movements were integrated into every technique.īy 1958 Nishio has been promoted to 5th dan Aikido. He felt that it was misguided to say that Aikido could function as a martial art without using strikes. Nishio also felt that atemi (striking) was an essential aspect of any true martial art, but it was entirely absent from post-war Aikido. He remedied this with his own innovations of Aikido koshiwaza (hip throws) based on his experience in judo. For one, the number of throwing techniques done in Aikido was being limited to mainly only iriminage, shihonage, and kotegaeshi. Nishio felt that improvements were needed in other areas as well. Sometimes he would go to train and nobody would be there so he would just spend the time practicing ukemi and then go home. Nishio recalls with amusement that he was the first person to join the Kodokan after the war. There were no application forms so Nishio just wrote his name on a plain piece of paper and left it there. When he arrived the building was a mess, windows blown out from the bombings, and no one was there but an old caretaker. The war ended Augand on September 1st he went to join the Kodokan, the world headquarters of judo. At the same time he started practicing judo in a nearby dojo. In 1942, at the age of 15, amidst the chaos of WW II, he moved to Tokyo where he began working for the Ministry of Finance in the Japanese Mint. ![]() ![]() Shoji Nishio was born in 1927 in the Aomori Prefecture of northern Japan. He received the Budo Koryusho award from the Japanese Budo Federation for his lifetime contribution to the development and advancement of Aikido throughout the world. I'm also toying with the idea of refounding Tai Sabaki Do - I still have all the basic syllabuses and kata's so who knows.Shoji Nishio’s lifetime of accomplishments included numerous rankings and honors in Japanese martial arts including 8th dan in Aikido, 7th dan in Nihon Zendoku Iaido, 6th dan in Kodokan Judo, 5th dan in Shindo jinen-ryu Karate as well as training in Shindo Muso Ryu Jodo (staff) and Hozoin Ryu Yari (spear). Very hard to go from being one of two senior instructors to a white belt again but humility is good for the soul (or so I'm finding). Tai Sabaki Do closed around 2007 due to falling rolls - I haven't really trained since then except that my 10 year daughter just started training at a local Shukokai karate club in Leeds and guess what I started at the same time and am about to take my first formal grading with her. As well as this style of karate I've also trained in Shotokan, Wado Ryu and some Judo. I attained Shodan in 1986 and my 2nd Dan in 1994. We did a full range of basic kicks, punches and blocks (guards I suppose as we never used stength to block a strike). He took the orginal Wado kata's and self defenced them up emphasizing tai sabaki avoidences. I originally studied in a Wado Ryu variant called Tai Sabaki Do (set up by our Sensei Ben Warren in the 1970's) primarily a self defence art as the name implies. Hi there, new to MAP but have been training in martial arts since 1980.
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