Kageyama Dojo Toronto

description of the school

Tomiki Style Aikido is one of the major branches of modern Aikido, first developed by Kenji Tomiki, a direct student of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido, and Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo. This style of competitive Aikido (posthumously named Tomiki Aikido) with innovative practice techniques improves Aikido skills and spiritual strength through competition. Competition in Tomiki Aikido takes place in two ways. One is kata presentation and another is randori. Randori allows participants to practice safely their martial art skills against opponents wielding (fake) weapons.
Tomiki Aikido is growing in popularity around the globe. More that 20 countries have associations with thousand practitioners. Every two years, an International Tournament is organised for the purpose of identifying the best sportsmen in randori and kata competition.