Introducing Yoseikan Aikijutsu
For practitioners whose mind is willing and body has become reserved.
Two Saturday afternoons with Darren Edwards Shihan.
Who this is for
You've trained for years. You still can. The techniques still work in your body.
What's changed is what you want to receive.
A shoulder that clicks. A knee that swells the day after a heavy fall. A lower back that pays for the hard breakfalls the next morning.
Not injuries. Niggles. Things you're managing quietly.
You've done the syllabus for years. You can teach it, you can walk students through it. But the practice intensity and volume was calibrated for younger bodies. Being uke for a throw 10, 15 20 times in a class is fine at 25. But this intensity, with the niggles you're managing, not so great, it's why you're sore after class, once you've cooled down.
Your mind is still fully willing. You want to keep training. Not to keep receiving what you'd quietly rather not.
What the training asks of your body
Here's what you need to know about how we train.
No joint locks applied through pain. The wrist and shoulder shapes still appear — kote gaeshi, shihonage, the familiar patterns. But no lever is applied through the joint. The shape is the destination the falling body arrives at, not the mechanism that puts uke down.
No lifting and dumping. No phase where Tori raises uke's centre off the ground and drops them. What looks like a projection is uke's own balance loss carried through by connection.
Two forms of ukemi. Yoko ukemi — sideways, from standing balance loss. Forward roll — from projection throws. Nothing hard-style, nothing dropped from height.
What your body has learned to be reserved about is largely not present. Not because we've removed it for you. Because it isn't structurally part of the art.
The constraint that decides when your training ends isn't the training. It's you
Why we start here
Every serious art has a word for the basics — kihon, fundamentals. And every serious practitioner knows what happens when they're skipped: the technique works until it doesn't.
Aikijutsu is built on principles that don't exist in the same form in other arts. The Foundations Course is where that starting point gets established — properly, from the beginning, so everything after it builds on something real.
That's why everyone here starts with it. Not because it's the easy version — because it's where the art actually begins.
How the four weeks work
The course is structured as a sequence — each session builds on the last. What Week 1 establishes gets tested in Week 2.
By Week 4 the principles from the earlier sessions come together in practice.
What each week specifically covers, and the terms we use for it, is the sort of thing worth sharing once we know a bit about you.
How the Foundation group works
The Foundations group trains separately from the main class. Same night, Same space, Different focus.
Your group has its own instructor, its own pace, and its own progression — running alongside the regular class rather than inside it. The structure is deliberate. Foundations principles need space to be established properly before the complexity of the main class makes sense.
Same room.
Different work.
Both serious.
One condition
Come to the first session, and if it's not right for you — for any reason — you get a full refund. No questions, no conversation required.
We'd rather you leave after one session than stay for the wrong reasons.
The details
Duration: 4 weeks, one session per week
When: Wednesday evenings, 7:30–9:00pm.
Foundations intakes are scheduled around demand — if Wednesdays don't work for you but you're interested, that's worth a message.
Total mat time: 6 hours
Cost: $39. Kobukai is a not-for-profit — $39 covers venue costs. No one here is paid, including the instructor.
Where: Scarborough Community Hub — free parking directly outside
What to wear: Trackpants and a t-shirt. No uniform
What to bring: A water bottle
Experience / fitness / contracts: None
Can't make every Wednesday, or unsure which intake suits you? Just say so when you message — we'll work around it.
What happens after the course
Most people who finish choose to continue — but there's no pressure to.
After the four weeks you can move into the regular class, repeat the Foundations Course if you want more time, or simply finish and leave it there.
No obligation. You'll know what feels right once you've done it.
The next step
If any of this sounds like something you've been looking for, the honest next step isn't reading more — it's a short conversation.
Not a form. Not a payment. A conversation.
Tell us where you're coming from — what you've trained before if anything, what made you look, what you're curious about. We'll tell you honestly whether this is likely to be right for you.
Message on whatever's easiest.
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Sat 1:15pm-3pm
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173 Gildercliffe Street, Scarborough, Perth, WA 6019
Minor hall next to Gym.
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