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What rank in Aikido can one start BO-staff, Sword training, or taijutsu?

Im looking into doing Martial Arts again, and there’s an aikido studio about 10 minutes from my house. I researched the art and saw that part of aikido training is BO-staff (aiki-jo), Sword (Aiki-ken), and Taijutsu. Does someone have to be a certain kyu (i believe thats the word for rank) in order to do any of those techniques?

It depends on the instructor/dojo/organization. Some dojos use suburi (solo cutting exercises) with either bokken or jo (no, you won’t use a bo in aikido) as part of regular warm-ups, others have special weapon classes. Some instructors feel that weapon training, especially aiki-ken, should be introduced as early as possible, since most basic movement and techniques in aikido is derived from sword-techniques; while other may limit weapon training to those above, say, 2nd kyu.

Taijutsu literally means body-arts/techniques, and is nowadays usually used to refer to empty-handed techniques; so yes, taijutsu is a big part of aikido.

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