Windsong Dojo will be hosting our annual clinic the weekend of September 11-13, 2026. Please join us for a fun weekend of budo, friends, food, and fun! Important Information Where: Windsong Dojo, 2201 W I 44 Service Rd.Oklahoma City OK 73112 Cost: Clinic Only (prior to 09/10/2025): $85Clinic + Dinner (prior to 09/11/2025): $110Dinner only:…
The dojo is closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but you can still practice with these aikido, judo, and jodo exercises that can be done without a partner.
In an abundance of caution regarding the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we are cancelling our 2020 spring clinic planned for June 5-7. We hope to reschedule for sometime in the fall. Our primary concern is for the health and safety of our students and guests. Thank you for your understanding. Save the date – our 2020…
Greg Ables is uke, Kellie Larsen is tori, Chris Wilson videographer.
Kyle Sloan, Uke; Derek Hall, Tori; Photography & Video by Rob Goodwill This version is particulary usefuly when your partner is taller than yourself.
by Nick Lowry I state the following based on my decades of teaching, my experiences, my training, and personal observations. These are strictly my opinions. I trained directly and indirectly under Karl Geis in the arts of Aikido, Judo and Jodo from 1982 to 2009. At the time of my departure from his organization (Fugakukai)…
From 2011 Shochigeiko by Nick Lowry The original walking developed in the late 40’s — filmed in the early to mid 50’s–17 walking waza — taught at Waseda to develop skill sets of aiki for judo players Unsoku — foot work 1- forward shuffle — square not angular step — quick cycle– back foot floats…
by Nick Lowry As an institutional device we can say that there is no such thing as rank in an absolute term– institutionally Rank is always based on a relative scale – some systems rank players/practitioners against each other – others systems grade your rank up or down with each performance- it is never absolute…
by Kyle Sloan Some folks might look at what we’re doing, and because it’s not a competition deal immediately dislike it. Well, let me try to change your mind. The method we use for the bulk of our teaching time is a non-resistive uke. This allows for the purest transmission of information between partners —…
by Nick Lowry Experiment: Read the following aloud A bird in thethe handis worth two inthe bush Almost everyone reads this as “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Almost no one catches the second “the.” But this error is not because of some lack of intellegence, it is rather caused…