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 [...]

Dave has the personalised and ever so cool certificates from the last set of gradings.
It took a little while longer than usual this year to find someone to write the Japanese names, dates and ranks, but if you take a look at the example of a sankyu (3rd class) certificate below, we think you will [...]

As a special treat, here is a downloadable copy of this academic year’s Code of Practice. It is essentially a club charter: it outlines the responsibilities of the committee to the club, the duties of the members to each other, and other such details.
Much of the information is available on this site, but it can [...]

Hello, if you are reading this, you’ve found the new website for the aikido club at Cardiff University.
Yay us!
Please have a poke around and find out a little about our club and about the martial art of aikido. We should have more content being generated here as time goes by and we have news, so [...]