Federations

AKS is the Swiss branch of the International Aikibudo Federation (FIAB) established by Alain Floquet in 1992 in France.
The main goal of FIAB is to promote the principles and teaching of Aikibudo and Kobudo internationally.
The Aikibudo in accordance with the original principles taught by master Minoru Mochizuki and adapted by master Alain Floquet, is that provided by the International Centre of Aikibudo (CERA), headquartered in Paris, France.
Kobudo from style Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto, the ancient techniques of Daito ryu Aikijujutsu and the lai from Yoseikan are an integral part of the Aikibudo.
Furthermore this federation will provide technical and educational assistance to different national authorities, as well as all members of the International Federation.
Last but not least to promote the teaching of Aikibudo by organizing meetings, demonstrations, workshops and other events.

The "Association Suisse d'Aikido Shodokan" has been established in 1995 in order to unify the clubs practicing Shodokan style Aikido in Switzerland. After the death of our Sensei Shingo Koshiyama in February 2000, the technical direction is now under the direct responsability of Tetsuro Nariyama from the Shodokan Honbu Dojo in Osaka. The Association organizes seminars, competitions (see below), as well as Kyu and Dan grade exams, and represents Swiss Shodokan Aikido at the Union d'Aikido Suisse (UAS) and the Japan Aikido Association (JAA).

Shodokan Aikido specificities

The Shodokan Aikido style has been founded by Kenji Tomiki Shihan, a student of the Founder Uyeshiba and Jigoro Kano. It differs from what we call "traditional" Aikido by the introduction of Randori Shiai (competitions) and a certain number of technical issues.

The Birankai is the school founded by T.K. Chiba Shihan. He has long desired that his students, who are scattered across the globe, should have a single organization to support their training. Birankai International, established in 2001, represents the culmination of a long-held wish of Chiba Sensei. It has regional chapters for Continental Europe, United Kingdom and the United States. Dojos and associated dojos from France, Greece, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Poland and Switzerland are part of the Continental Europe Chapter.
The role of Shihans (highest teaching certification) pupils of Chiba Sensei is:
• To establish good communication between themselves and the general members.
• To strengthen the connection between continental Europe, the UK, and the US.
• To maintain the clear, high standards that Sensei has developed for teachers.
• To stimulate the growth of the art by providing strong support for the teacher-student relationship.
Birankai is recognized by Hombu Dojo.

The CAA has grown into a worldwide community and is fortunate to have within its membership many teachers with varied backgrounds and complementary skills. Thus the CAA embraces many stylistic and technical traditions but is guided by the phsyical and philosophical ideals established by the founder, Morihei Ueshiba.
It is this very open-ness and diversity that uniquely defines the CAA not so much as an organization but as an 'Association' of teachers, dojos, and aikidoka whose primary common bond is the art we practice. This loose association also means that the CAA does not mandate, enforce, govern, oversee, direct, sanction, or otherwise control the specific operations and events within its member dojos.
Each dojo and each member is solely responsible for their own actions. CAA evolved into 3 divisions headed by Pat Hendricks (6th Dan), Frank Doran (7th Dan), Robert Nadeau (7th Dan).

The Evolutionary Aikido Community (EAC) is a global community of more than 25 dojos worlwide exploring the art of Aikido in traditional and evolutionary ways by honoring the beautiful past and origins of the art that has brought the Aikido to where it is in the world today, and by recognizing that the art itself is continuously alive and evolving.
The EAC is a community supervised by Patrick Cassidy, 6 th dan Aikikai. The EAC is an organization recognized by the Aikikai, Japan. All ranks are certified by the Aikikai under the supervision of Patrick and the senior instructors of the EAC.

Fundamental Aikido Association (FAA) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve and promote the teaching of Morihiro Saito sensei. Its headquarters are located in Sakura Dojo in Belgium, Central Dojo of the association. FAA is represented in many countries by a large number of teachers Dojocho. The association is open to all those wishing to explore and deepen this teaching in international technical direction of Daniel Toutain, direct student of Morihiro Saito sensei.

This federation has been established in 1984, because of a spin off from originating ACSA (see above). Basically following the teaching of sensei Nobuyoshi Tamura, this group has grown during the years, and is now present in all regions of Switzerland.

Aikido IG has been established in 2002 By Ursula Reimer (Yamotokan dojo, Zürich) with the idea that different aikido dojos could support each other mutually. Aikido IG is supported by the city, being a member of ZSS (Zürcher Stadtverband für Sport, a sport association of Zürich's city). It is possible to become a member of Aikido IG by sending an e-mail to ig.aikido@bluewin.ch. Members of Aikido IG are usually members of already mentioned Federations, 1 dojo remains fully unaffiliated; all others (6) are listed as members of other federations.

International School of Traditional Aikido has been etablished by Alain Peyrache, an European expert who has been practicing and passing on his teaching for more than 35 years.
ISTA aims the teaching, the development, and the promotion of traditional Aikido, proposing a structure in accord with the model in which UESHIBA's Aïkido was born and got developed.

The teaching follow the traditional model "one teacher, one dojo", nonetheless, due to completeness reasons, altough the teacher could be the same, all the present dojos in Switzerland are mentioned as affiliated, since the goal of this site is to report the "dojo" as unit.