Description: Independent Aikido Alliance - Kyusho Aikido, Organization information, Store. Sensei Gay Boaz
aikido (1325) sensei (123) kyusho (35) kyusho jitsu (14) jason graham (5) gary boaz (2) jerry bolack (2) amber graham (2) mallory senne (2) brian gillaspie (2)
What is "Independent Aikido Alliance" and what does it mean?
The very name of our organization seems to be oxymoronic. After all, how can you be truly independent if you are allied with others? To answer that question we must look deeper into the philosophy of IAA and the principles upon which it was founded.
Gary Boaz Sensei has been part of the martial arts world since 1991 and has been involved in many organizations in that time. Time and again he came face to face with the very things these organizations stated they were against: inflated egos, politics, greed, and a lack of humility and respect for others. Moreover, it always seemed that somewhere along the line, money became a major part of everything and the desire for learning, growing and advancing stagnated. Finally in March of 2008 he reached a limit