The Aikibojitsu Short Forms
The heart of Aikibojitsu lies in concentrated study of Short Forms. Short Forms are formal staff patterns of precisely
defined rhythm, timing, transition, and line. They comprise a focus for technical study similar in approach to Iaido, the art
of drawing the sword.
Each Short Form is a significant, graspable piece of an immense complexity, designed to highlight a particular aspect, to
give physical expression to something that otherwise would have remained forever invisible.
At first it is difficult to see that there is one and only one perfect line for a given Short Form. But as skill develops through
repeated practice, each form begins to reveal the truth of itself. As more and more forms are learned and practiced their
teachings begin to link together, ever more in concert, revealing the existence, depth, and significance, of underlying pattern.
Every detail of movement in a Short Form is significant. The presence of even a single discordant movement will have
significant effect upon developing accelerations, transitional timing, and resultant overall pattern in space. Even the presence
of thought is capable of disrupting perfect line.
Perfection of line is an asymptotic goal, ultimately unattainable. Nevertheless, attempts toward that goal are significant, as
they require practitioners to pay attention to levels of manifestation and consciousness that are usually overlooked. Work
toward perfection of line leads to a more subtle perception, and a deepening of perspective.
The Master Short Form List contains a code, ie SF-XXX.X, and a description. The codes are cross-linked to the Kata
Forms of the Daiki Taiyu (page not yet complete), and the descriptions are presented alphabetically. The Master Short
Form list is updated frequently as new forms are accepted into the defined system.
SF - 80.0 Abandoned Move
SF-193.0 Abandoned Shomen
SF-170.0 Alternating Ring Layout Spiral
SF-167.0 Alternating Ring Spiral
SF-158.0 Archer's Turn
SF-186.0 Ascending 3-Strike Precessional (ascending to R-Yokomen, L-Yokomen, Shomen)
SF-140.0 Auger
SF-136.0 Auger Loop Yokomen
SF-194.0 Back Elbow Catch (ref. SF-954 warmup)
SF-197.0 Back Hip Diagonal Catch (ref. SF-955 warmup)
SF-955.0 Back Hip Diagonal Catch Rotations (Warmup)
SF - 59.0 Backhand Breakspiral
SF - 60.0 Backhand Breakspiral 360
SF - 65.0 Backhand Layout Breakspiral 360 (Raven)
SF-147.0 Backhand Overfold (ref. SF-7)
SF-127.0 Backhand Parry Yokomen
SF - 99.0 Backhand Reflector to Left Yokomen (Fire Octal)
SF-165.0 Backhand Twist Catch to Short Yokomen
SF - 20.0 Backhand Water
SF - 84.0 Backhand Wind
SF-100.0 Backhand Wrist Strike to Double Yokomen
SF - 67.0 Backspiral (Fire Kata)
SF-187.0 Base Shift Yokomen
SF-112.0 Bo Tsuki
SF - 11.0 Breakspiral
SF - 89.0 Breakspiral to Extended Hasso
SF - 44.0 Butterfly Yokomen (Fire Kata)
SF - 70.0 Calling Strike
SF-172.0 Carry to Ascending Diagonal Yokomen (opposite side)
SF-171.0 Carry to Ascending Diagonal Yokomen (same side)
SF-173.0 Carry to Dropback Yokomen
SF-149.0 Carve Transition
SF-139.0 Caterpillar
SF-155.0 Center Drop (abandoned to center)
SF - 95.0 Chudan Zanshin
SF-113.0 Clockwise Spiral Tsuki
SF - 57.0 Complex Double
SF - 31.0 Complex Fifth
SF-199.0 Complex opposite node catch rotation (ref. SF-957 warmup)
SF-190.0 Complex Precessional
SF-198.0 Complex same node catch rotation (ref. SF-956 warmup)
SF-103.0 Complex T-Rotator
SF-114.0 CounterClockwise Spiral Tsuki
SF - 48.0 Cross-step Yokomen
SF - 75.0 Diamond Overspiral Complex
SF - 75.1 Diamond Overspiral Complex
SF - 73.0 Diamond Precessional
SF - 74.0 Diamond Wind Drop
SF-144.0 Double Auger
SF-131.0 Double Folded Auger
SF - 63.0 Double Layout Spiral
SF-169.0 Double Layout Spiral
SF - 64.0 Double Layout Spiral to Left Yokomen
SF-150.0 Double Loop Ninth
SF - 54.0 Double Ninth
SF - 71.0 Double Parry to Tenth Short Form (Tojima)
SF - 98.0 Double Shomen Exponential
SF - 90.0 Double Underthrow
SF - 91.0 Double Underthrow to Double Yokomen 360 (Granite Kata)
SF - 82.0 Double Wind
SF - 43.0 Double Yokomen
SF-162.0 Dropback Yokomen
SF - 8.0 Eighth Short Form
SF-954.0 Elbow Catch Rotations (Warmup)
SF - 76.0 Emerald Precessional
SF-152.0 Enfolded Ninth
SF - 56.0 Enfolded Ninth (drop the staff into Right Kakushibo, then Right Precessional)
SF - 97.0 Enfolded sweep to Inori Kamae (nm. Firespiral)
SF - 46.0 Enfolded Yokomen (Mirror Kata)
SF - 94.0 Extended Hasso Zanshin
SF - 5.0 Fifth Short Form
SF-182.0 Figure-8 Overspiral (right side, rear fundamental palm up, to left, back to rt Hasso)
SF-138.0 Fire Octal
SF - 15.0 Fire Triplet
SF - 1.0 First Short Form (nm. Naked Yokomen) (ref. SF-39.0 Precessional Yokomen),[xxxxx.xx]
SF - 23.0 Five-strike Fire
SF - 72.0 Float Parry
SF-189.0 Folium Precessional
SF-950.0 Forward Rotations (Warmup)
SF - 96.0 Four-Point Inflection
SF - 4.0 Fourth Short Form (Sweep Parry)
SF - 92.0 Gedan Zanshin
SF - 30.0 Granite - Auger Complex
SF - 28.0 Granite Complex
SF - 29.0 Granite to Folded Yokomen
SF-146.0 Granite to Shifted Auger
SF-130.0 Half Auger Yokomen
SF-134.0 Handachi-4
SF - 93.0 Hasso Zanshin
SF-125.0 HTDM
SF-132.0 HTDM Layout (enfolded)
SF-126.0 HTDM Rotator
SF-156.0 Ikkyo Tsuki Sequence (tsuki-highblock-downstrike-tsuki-highblock-turnover)
SF-107.0 Inside Rotator (360)
SF-108.0 Inside Rotator (720)
SF-174.0 Inside Rotator to Great Circle Shomen
SF-952.0 Inside Spiral Rotations (Warmup)
SF-101.0 Inside-Outside Rotator
SF-953.0 Invert Spiral Rotations (Warmup)
SF-111.0 Jo Tsuki
SF-123.0 Kibadachi Shomen
SF-124.0 Kibadachi Yokomen
SF - 62.0 Layout 315 "Helical" (Fire Octal Kata)
SF - 61.0 Layout Spiral
SF-168.0 Layout Spiral
SF-160.0 Left Yokomen 360/Right Yokomen 360
SF-118.0 Leftward Parry Tsuki
SF-164.0 Leftward Rotating Double Double
SF - 53.0 Loop Ninth
SF - 51.0 Loop Yokomen
SF - 40.0 LR Yokomen
SF-119.0 Maetsuki
SF - 9.0 Ninth Short Form
SF-153.0 Ninth to Shifted Auger
SF-200.0 Ninth to Water Rotator
SF - 55.0 Ninth to Wind (at 180)
SF - 52.0 Nodal Double
SF - 32.0 nside Double Wheel
SF-137.0 Octal
SF-122.0 Octal Shomen
SF-957.0 Opposite-node Nodal Release-Catch Rotations (Warmup)
SF - 87.0 Outside pull to Extended Hasso (Emerald)
SF-106.0 Outside Rotator (nm. T-Rotator ; ref. SF-105.0)
SF - 25.0 Outside Spiral 180 (nm. Outside Spiral)
SF - 26.0 Outside Spiral 360
SF-951.0 Outside Spiral Rotations (Warmup)
SF - 27.0 Outside Spiral to Breakspiral (180)
SF-185.0 Outside Spiral to Double Yokomen
SF-102.0 Outside-Inside Rotator
SF-958.0 Palm spins (Warmup)
SF-188.0 Parabolic Precessional
SF-151.0 PassThrough Block
SF - 42.0 Planal Yokomen
SF - 12.0 Power Spiral
SF - 49.0 Power Spiral 180
SF - 50.0 Power Spiral 360
SF - 13.0 Precessional Reverse
SF - 39.0 Precessional Yokomen (ref. SF-1.0 First Short Form)
SF-121.0 Quad Shomen
SF - 47.0 Raptor Yokomen
SF - 45.0 Resonant Yokomen (Emerald Kata)
SF-142.0 Reverse Auger
SF-195.0 Reverse HTDM
SF-196.0 Reverse Layout HTDM
SF - 83.0 Reverse Windspinner
SF-154.0 Reversing Wheels
SF - 88.0 Right Rear Shoulder Hold underthrown to Left Extended Hasso
SF-117.0 Rightward Parry Tsuki
SF - 68.0 Ring Spiral
SF-166.0 Ring Spiral
SF - 41.0 RL Yokomen
SF - 58.0 Rotating Double Breakspiral (Diamond Kata)
SF - 22.0 Rotating Fire 315
SF-956.0 Same-node Nodal Release-Catch Rotations (Warmup)
SF-159.0 SCA Backstrike
SF - 2.0 Second Short Form
SF - 7.0 Seventh Short Form
SF-128.0 Shifted Auger
SF-143.0 Shifted Auger
SF - 24.0 Shomen
SF - 35.0 Shomen - Shomen 180
SF - 36.0 Shomen - Shomen 360
SF - 34.0 Shomen 180
SF - 33.0 Shomen Parry
SF-959.0 Simple Precessional (Warmup)
SF - 6.0 Sixth Short Form
SF - 37.0 Slant Drop Double
SF - 38.0 Slant Drop Triple
SF - 79.0 Slip Cut
SF-110.0 Snap Tsuki
SF-145.0 Soft Granite
SF-129.0 Soft Granite Backstrike
SF - 77.0 Stream Double to Breakspiral
SF - 78.0 Stream Double to Granite Complex 270 (Emerald)
SF-157.0 Strike down to hassokamae - Aiki-bojitsu Bo Ikkyo)
SF-175.0 Suwari; right side to Left Yokomen
SF-176.0 Suwari; right side to Right Yokomen
SF-180.0 Suwari; right side ,HTDM
SF-181.0 Suwari; right side, leftward turning 9th to Left Down Hanmi Handachi Right Yokomen
SF-178.0 Suwari; right side, rightward turning Ushiro Tsuki 180 to Right Yokomen
SF-179.0 Suwari; right side, rightward turning Ushiro Tsuki 360 to Highblock, Right Yokomen
SF-141.0 Sweep Auger
SF-109.0 Sweep Tsuki
SF-116.0 Sweep Tsuki
SF-148.0 Sweepspiral (Witt)
SF - 10.0 Tenth Short Form
SF - 3.0 Third Short Form (Shomen)
SF - 14.0 Tissol
SF-115.0 Triple Tsuki
SF-105.0 T-Rotator (540) (nm. Outside Rotator ; ref. SF-106.0)
SF - 86.0 Underthrow to Extended Hasso
SF-183.0 Underthrow to Right Extended Hasso to Precessional Right Yokomen
SF-120.0 Ushirotsuki
SF-177.0 Suwari; right side, Tsuki, Right Yokomen, Left Yokomen, Shomen
SF - 69.0 V-Parry
SF - 21.0 Water Rotator
SF - 19.0 Water Transition
SF-135.0 Waterspiral
SF - 16.0 Wheel
SF-104.0 Wheeler-Rotator
SF-192.0 Whip Yokomen 180
SF-163.0 Whip Yokomen 360
SF - 17.0 Wind 180
SF-184.0 Wind 270
SF - 18.0 Wind 360
SF - 81.0 Wind Drop 360
SF-133.0 Wind Drop 540
SF - 85.0 Wind Overspiral
SF-191.0 Wind-Water Rotator
SF - 66.0 Yinspiral
SF-161.0 Yokomen to Ushirotsuki