About Aikido Kokikai of Hyattsville

Aikido Kokikai of Hyattsville is just outside Washington DC near the University of Maryland's main campus in College Park. Where we hold classes in a spacious gym at the PG Plaza Community Center on Adelphi road.
    Our style of instruction is a hybrid of Japanese and American methodologies. Traditional Japanese instruction is relatively silent with very little verbal explaination. The instructor demonstrates a technique and the students then try to replicate it. While this has some advantages, like building keen observational skills, we have found that most americans respond better when there is some verbal explaination of technique. In most other respects we retain the traditional approaches to instruction and martial art ettiquete.
   There are several qualified instructors teaching at Aikido Kokikai of Hyattsville. The head instructor is a fourth degree black belt, with experience in other martial arts. All of the instructors have between fourteen and twenty four years of martial arts experience. Some instructors have also spent time training in Japan with the founder of our style. These men and women strive to bring out the best in all of us with energetic, quality teaching.
    Our instructors and students come from a variety of backgrounds which makes training with this not-for-profit group both valuable and fun.