Aikido Club

NLA is designed to promote and explore the opportunities to blend and redirect aggressive or violent energy. We embrace all elements of martial styles, but would like to discover the most effective and least destructive strategies for dealing with attacks, both physical and non-physical.

Students will begin to learn, on the physical plane, a number of defenses to attacks from an aggressor. Over time, conscientious students will be able to become proficient enough to feel confident that they could defend themselves successfully from physical attack. Just as importantly, students will learn about aggression and harmony on the mental and emotional planes.

Aikido is Japanese for "the way of harmony with universal energy." Our goal is to help students discover how to apply the philosophy of aikido in their everyday lives; not only to benefit themselves, but also to help others find more peaceful and productive paths.