Beach Cities Aikido  Chief Instructor: Sensei Steven Wasserman Est.: 2011 Affiliation: Aikido Association of America Classes focus on the art and philosophy of “Aikido” self defense.   In this Japanese martial art, students will learn the basic principles of falling, rolling and defense techniques against punches, strikes, kicks, knife attacks, control and blending with your opponent, mat safety and self-defense awareness. Instruction is focused towards both the basic principles of Aikido and th …

Harmony Aikido is to instill every one of its students with discipline, manners, confidence and strength through the practice of an effective form of martial art that is based on self-defense. The techniques practiced in Harmony Aikido trains its student to control the situation by displacing and using the attacker’s momentum to their advantage. Due to these defensive techniques, Aikido is versatile so students of all ages can benefit and participate.

… Instructor JT Tam has a 6th degree black belt in Harmony Aikido (a Japanese self-defense martial art), and has been instructing for over 10 years. During this time, he has developed several different effective methods of learning simple self-defense techniques that anyone can learn and use. He is passionate about giving all his knowledge to others so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. We-Defend Mission and Vision We Defend was setup to offer free self-defense cla …