Upcoming event
WHO : Danny DaCosta - 4th Dan Aikido, 6th Dan Judo
WHEN : Saturday 28th February 2pm-5pm
WHERE : Talybont Sports Centre
COST : £5 students
Usual place, slightly earlier than usual start, and excellent training with national figures at superb rates as usual!
Also don’t forget: gradings 21st Feburary.
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Click image to enlarge. @David ColwillWe promised gradings and we don’t disappoint. They’ve been set for Saturday 21st February at the normal timeslot. Practice will be focused on preparing for them in the run up so please do your best to attend if you would like to grade.
The gradings themselves usually follow a syllabus at [...]

A little note from Cathy:
Hi everyone,
just to let you know that practice has now started back at Talybont at the normal times. Gradings will be happening in the 2nd or 3rd week of February, so if you want to grade, now is the time to get practicing!!
Don’t let exam revision stop you from coming [...]

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 [...]