A tradition of 36 years of serious Aikido instruction in Tampa, Florida

The USF Aikido Club has been active as a formal student organization at the University of South Florida Tampa Campus since 1975, and we are one of the oldest of USF’s activity organizations. We provide instruction in Aikido, a traditional Japanese martial art that encourages conflict resolution and non-competitiveness.

The USF Aikido Club is currently inactive.  If you are a USF student interested in reactivating the club and serving as an officer, please contact info @ tampaaikido.com.

Aikido is a non-competitive martial way that emphasizes being unattackable rather than destroying others. While we practice our art based on serious combat principles like multiple attackers and defense against weapons, we emphasize cultivating a mindset, body, and reactions that are useful in real life: our jobs, our relationships, with our families and friends, and not just against a physical attacker or for gaining points in a sport tournament. In training, we help each other, we practice to avoid injury, and we cultivate lifelong friends. Located on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, we are one of the oldest Aikido schools in Florida. We’re affiliated with the World Aikido Headquarters in Japan and the Aikido Schools of Ueshiba, and have been providing quality Aikido instruction since 1975!

Our school’s Japanese name is the “kasshin kai” dojo, which means “the people of growth/evolution.” This name was selected by our members to embrace a spirit of personal development and a commitment to lifelong improvement.

It is never too late to begin the Path to discovering amazing abilities within yourself. There’s a place waiting for you among us, but every day that you don’t train is a lost opportunity to become a little stronger, a little better, a little more amazing than you were before. Don’t let yourself regret the time you didn’t invest in yourself!