AIKIBUJUTSU

Hontai Hakkei Ryu Aikibujutsu is a contemporary, neo-classical martial art that is descended from some of Japan’s oldest established martial arts systems. 

Our art is a weapons-based system with many empty-hand techniques and applications. Besides jujutsu and newaza (groundfighting), the curriculum contains classical Japanese weapons, including sword, tanto (dagger), staff, tessen (iron fan), jutte (truncheon), and more. 

What sets Aikibujutsu apart from other martial arts is its internal-power methodology, which is quite different from the traditional way in which most martial artists and athletes train to move and to create body stability and strength. “Aiki myoden” (Hontai Hakkei Ryu’s unique term) has long been considered the “secret ingredient” that makes the body more efficient and effective in both receiving and neutralizing an attacker’s force, and in powering one’s own techniques. Because of the focus on whole-body movement and utilization, Aikibujutsu can be effective as self-defense and a fitness regimen for men and women of all sizes and ages. 

The current head of Hontai Hakkei Ryu is Salahuddin Muh’min Muhammad, who received his training and inheritance of the system from his teacher, the late Okazaki Shuji Sensei. Muhammad Sensei’s dojo — the Takeshin Dojo — and his martial arts organization, the Nihonden Aikibujutsu Senyokai, are based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Peabody, Massachusetts.