The history goes back about a 1000 years. Back to the days of the samurai, when the feodal lords of Japan battled it out in numerous wars and battles.

Derivatives of the Daito-ryu branch, in the form of specific styles (iaido, kendo, kempo, hapkido, judo, ju-jutsu, aikido, etc...) started to evolve during the 19th and 20th century. Both original schools still teach the complete systems. Ueshiba Sensei formed a system of his own from the original Daito-ryu-Aiki-ju-jutsu techniques he acquired from Sokaku Takeda, first called Aiki-budo and eventually Aikido. Harmony and religion were central. This Aikido came to the West through students of Ueshiba Morihei, such as Saito Sensei and Tohei Sensei.

>> The history of Aiki

By combining the strong aspects of Aikido, Takeda-ryu Aiki-ju-jutsu and all things gathered from other martial arts (chin na, nei kung, muay thai, pencak silat), the Aiki-jutsu-do system has become a very complete system. Flexible, alert, dynamic, and above all realistic in nature.

>> The manual of Aiki-jutsu-do

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