The Copenhagen Aikido Club was founded in the spring of 1975 in Idrætshuset in Østerbro. In cooperation with Takeji Tomita Sensei (8th dan) in Stockholm, Ulf Evenås (7th dan) in Gothenburg, Lars-Göran Andersson (5th dan) in Torsby as well as a number of Swedish clubs, the foundation of the club was laid.

From the beginning of the 1980s, contact with Tomita Sensei’s teacher, Morihiro Saito sensei (9th dan) in Iwama, Japan, was intensified. When Tomita Sensei in 1992 chose to found a school of Aikido independent of Saito Sensei, the Copenhagen Aikido Club chose to become affiliated directly with Saito Sensei and thus became an establishing part of that which until Saito Sensei’s death in 2002 was known as Iwama Ryu Scandinavia.

The Copenhagen Aikido Club is part of an ever increasing number of Aikido clubs in Scandinavia which have all been directly affiliated with Saito Sensei. This group now goes by the name of Takemusu Aikido Scandinavia which at present consists of approximately 30 clubs counting more than 1.000 practitioners in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Ulf Evenås is the Shihan (top representative) of this group and is responsible for all kyu and dan tests, which are most often conducted by the highest ranking instructors in Scandinavia.

Takemusu Aikido Scandinavia is characterized by the traditional tai-jutsu techniques and their relation to the weapons techniques that the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, developed in Iwama and passed on to Saito Sensei. Apart from the cooperation with the Scandinavian clubs, we also have a close relationship and exchange with a number of clubs worldwide, who are also affiliated with Morihiro Saito Sensei.

It has been possible for our club to hold some of the largest seminars in Europe such as our nine International Summer Camps in the period from 1986 to 2004 with up to 300 participants from all over the world.

The Copenhagen Aikido Club is the largest and oldest club within Takemusu Aikido Scandinavia in Denmark. We are proud to enjoy a central position in Danish, Scandinavian and international Aikido, and we strive to be able to pass on Aikido in the same spirit as that in which we received it from Morihiro Saito Sensei.