We are committed to excellence in the mental and physical development of our students. Our goal is two-fold. First, we want to provide students with a fun, safe, and positive place to learn self-defense. And secondly, we want to foster effective self-defense training in a non-competitive environment. Our nationally certified instructors complete intensive and professional student teaching requirements. Once certified, instructors continue their progress, personal development, and education as instructors. We ensure students have a safe, fun and challenging time at our schools.

Students will find a complete Japanese system of self-defense consisting of throws, joint locks, nerve pressure points, grappling and strikes. By using the attacker’s weight and momentum, along with mind and body coordination, a smaller person can defend themselves against larger adversaries.

Because Nihon Goshin Aikido was founded from Aiki-Jujitsu, Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Karate, and Kobudo, our instructors are able to teach students many aspects of personal self-defense. The well-rounded martial artist must be able to defend themselves in many situations. Further, one must be able to defend against multiple attackers and weapons as knives, clubs or guns.

We use strikes and precision nerve pressure points and we utilize balance breaking techniques or throws to bring a person to the ground to apply joint-locks and submission holds.

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