Aikido Suginami Aikikai SF

The dedicated instructors at Aikido Suginami Aikikai guide students through balanced and noncompetitive martial-arts classes designed to shape each individual. Developed early in the 20th century, the martial way of Aikido differs from other martial-art forms and techniques, in that it serves as a means to perfect the self rather than to conquer others or to simply tenderize practice dummies. Dojo director Kato Hiroshi Shihan and his band of black-belted instructors instill students of all ages with confidence, valuable life skills, and practical self-defense abilities through aikido, brazilian-jujitsu, and muay thai classes.