About us
Aikido Takemusu Kai
Aikido Takemusu Kai is the Australia Branch of a Japanese school, operating locally as a not for profit incorporated association. The school also has branches in the UK and Brazil.
We are a group of people dedicated to developing ourselves through a traditional martial art.
Aikido is a dynamic style. A way of restoring balance and harmony to people’s lives through physical practice. With shared power not dominant strength and care of oneself and others in place of counter attack, our student members experience an atmosphere of enthusiasm, mutual respect and joy of training.
George Eaton
Australia Branch Head
George Eaton is a licensed master teacher (shihan) of Takemusu Aikido, with thirty years training experience and over twenty years instructing.
His first experience of Aikido was attending a self defense program in south London in 1978, going along with two fellow graduates, keen to maintain fitness and learn some new skills. He was captivated by the dynamic moves and decided to learn the art, joining the dojo which was led by Sensei Andrew Moxon.
In 1981 he had gained membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and took a break with a working holiday in Australia. George stayed in the country, continued to practice Aikido locally and eventually formed a group to study Takemusu Aikido in Brisbane in 1986, with the support of Andrew Moxon who had moved to Japan to learn from Headmaster Suzuki Toshinobu Sensei, in Chiba prefecture. See our History page for more about the background of Takemusu Aikido.
George moved up through the ranks until he was directly appointed to establish an Australia Branch by the headmaster himself in 1992. In 2001 he became the school’s first non Japanese shihan to receive the level of 7th Dan.
Eaton Sensei is a leading exponent and pioneer of Takemusu Aikido in Australia. His close ties to Japan have enabled exchanges between local and Japanese students and for Australian practitioners to be ranked and accepted for instructor licenses in Japan.
He also developed a passion for the use of the win-win approach of Aikido in the workplace, which led him to achieve a post graduate diploma in Conflict Management from Maquarie University in 1999. Combining this academic qualification with his unique presentation of Aikido, he has delivered interpersonal skills workshops to a host of organizations including the Australian Taxation Office, the Justice Department and Australia Post.
He teaches Takemusu Aikido in a traditionally structured and enjoyable way, inspiring the practice of techniques as a foundation for the expression of Aiki.
