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Los Angeles Aiki Kai

Los Angeles Aiki Kai
8929 Ellis Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034

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  • Students are responsible to practice a traditional code of etiquette to foster discipline, humility and correct action.

  • Students are responsible to adhere to the standard dress code.

  • Students are responsible to take care of personal hygiene.

KAKKHR is a school in which Aikido is practiced according to the ethical, technical, and philosophical principles passed down by Kobayashi Hirokazu Soshu. The founding members, and particularly the Saiko Shihan, are the witnesses who guarantee this transmission.

The master-student lineage is a codified relational mode. Its purpose is initiation in the spiritual sense, and in this regard, the transmission of ethics, technique, and philosophy in a way that respects, illustrates, and allows the student to experience the values defined in the preamble and make them their own.

The main criteria specifying this relational mode are:
- At the foundation of the practice is the Human Being, understood as a free individual and therefore capable of choice.
- The destiny of man is to elevate himself culturally, ethically, and spiritually. This cannot occur without freedom. It is stated in KAKKHR that there can be no identity without freedom and that every person must be seen as perfect. The master should never desire to change the student but rather offer means for the student to change themselves. No teacher should have any presumption about the student's future.


Rules should not represent a system of constraints that limit the individual's development. On the contrary, they define a direction considered favorable for the practitioner, and their purpose is to create ever higher levels of awareness through practice, through the application of discipline, etiquette, and ritual.
Within this framework, the practitioner can progress while respecting others in practice: the concepts of sempai, kohai, and Sensei are essential and require everyone to respect the traditional rules regarding their positions in martial arts.
Practice should aim toward integration with the reality of everyday life, a principle that is both its means and its goal: the expression of the natural freedom of the mind.

KAKKHR should not be conceived as a federation of associations but as a school that brings together independent associations that have freely chosen to observe and transmit the values of the KAKKHR school. It is the commitment to these values that forms the identity foundation of the school. They can be expressed in KAKKHR through this maxim, which summarizes the attitude of the teacher that every practitioner should strive toward: neither domination, nor submission, nor compromise. KAKKHR honors the memory of Ueshiba Morihei, known as O Sensei, whose disciple (jikideshi) was Kobayashi Soshu, and expresses its respect toward all other students of O Sensei and toward other aikido schools that originate from them. KAKKHR considers the existence of multiple aikido schools a value, and sees this plurality as a sign of each person's freedom to express and transmit what they have learned. Furthermore, KAKKHR respects and helps promote other martial arts schools whose goals are compatible with its own.

KAKKHR has no claim of superiority over other aikido schools. KAKKHR, while acting without discrimination toward others and in accordance with the law, asserts the authenticity and originality of the message it has received, which is defined by the criteria outlined above. KAKKHR forbids any form of racist activity and any form of religious proselytism. KAKKHR states one of its goals, which is to work for peace in the world. KAKKHR emphasizes its own autonomy on ethical, moral, technical, and decision-making levels through the actions of the structures that drive it: the Founders' Council, the Board of Directors (Executive Committee), the Shihankai, and the General Assembly. It is considered appropriate that within KAKKHR, relationships among members, whether individuals or legal entities, honorary members, or benefactors, remain harmonious. Relationships between members must also be based on mutual respect, sincerity, and kindness, while strictly observing the principles that govern interactions between martial arts practitioners, particularly regarding the recognition of rank, grade, and seniority.

Los Angeles Aiki Kai . 8929 Ellis Avenue . Los Angeles, CA . 90034 . laaikikai@gmail.com