AIKIDO

The USF Aikido Club has been active as a formal student organization at the University of South Florida Tampa Campus since 1975, and we are one of the oldest of USF's activity organizations. We provide instruction in Aikido, a traditional Japanese martial art that encourages conflict resolution and non-competitiveness... Aikido is a non-competitive martial way that emphasizes being unattackable rather than destroying others. While we practice our art based on serious combat principles like multiple attackers and defense against weapons, we emphasize cultivating a mindset, body, and reactions that are useful in real life: our jobs, our relationships, with our families and friends, and not just against a physical attacker or for gaining points in a sport tournament. In training, we help each other, we practice to avoid injury, and we cultivate lifelong friends. Located on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, we are one of the oldest Aikido schools in Florida. We're..

Primary location: Tampa United States