This year we’re holding our end of term meal at Ichiban on Albany Road. Come along for some delicious Japanese cuisine!
Then we can either walk or share taxis into town for a night on the raz! (Cathy’s words not mine :P)
Join us for fun and games! Just make sure you meet us at the Albany [...]

Just a little reminder, don’t go to aikido training at Talybont on Saturday 25th October, unless you fancy sitting and watching a jujitsu grading.
We will, however, be back the next week with some extra special seminars, with extended hours and a whole extra day, as we play host to Philippe Voarino. We have a post [...]

Thanks to all the newbies that went out on a limb to try aikido this week. The new term has started out well, and we were glad to see many new faces at our first two sessions. If you haven’t yet tried our club but were thinking of doing so, please do come to a [...]

Thanks to everyone that came talk to us, we met a lot of very lovely people. We hope to see many of you at training on Thursday, or any session after that, we welcome beginners at all times of the year. And of course the first training is FREE. So come along to Talybont and [...]

I’m pleased to say that from the 2nd onwards we should be back to our usual timetable of Thursdays 20:00-22:00 and Saturdays 15:00-17:00. Rejoice.
If you are thinking of joining our club feel free to join any session from this point. You are also welcome to join us on 25th September, but be aware that we [...]

We are very pleased to see that new members are already joining the club before the academic year has even kicked off.
We’ll soon be changing our training times to our term-time schedule, which is Thurs 8—10pm (20:00—22:00) and Sat 3-5pm (15:00—17:00). We’ll put up a post about that and change the times on the website [...]

As some of you may have been aware Stef (Dave Sensei’s partner) has been expectant. Thus I am happy to say that as of Thursday, 14th Auguest 2008 she gave birth to James, a bouncing baby boy (7lb 12oz, 3.52kg). So I would like just to welcome James to the world and offer the whole [...]

Dear All,
On the 25th of September from 18.45 to 20.45 Talybont Dojo will have the pleasure of hosting a session lead by Takeshi Yamashima Sensei. Yamashime Sensei is a 7th Dan from Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Japan, and trained under Seigo Yamaguchi Sensei (8th Dan). The cost of the course will be £5, considering the [...]

Hello all….well Dave and Me….though other people may read this….if so welcome :-)
This is just a quick note to say that training times will be changing for the summer break, basiclly the Saturday sessions will be dropped and the Thursday sessions will move to 7 to 9 pm. Sessions will still be in the Talybont [...]

This is quite possibly the most important post of the year: the official anncouncement of–drum roll please–the ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL GARDEN PARTY.
For those who don’t know, the annual international garden party is an end of year fairwell to people leaving and moving on to bigger and better things, as well as a general excuse the throw [...]