I’ve just deleted 63 spam comments waiting in the moderation queue. This is why the club email address appears in the somewhat manual format it does–we don’t want to have to put up with sorting through hundreds of similar messages from teh spambots!

Monday was the first time that I wore a hakama: I have to say that I quite liked it. My first was impression was something like “ooh swishy”, but I think that there is a deeper effect going on than just external style.
But anyway, there are a few of us new to the hakama experience–in [...]

It’s not uncommon for techniques very similar to, or derived from, aikido to appear in movies. See if you can put names to some of what a certain James Bond executes in the video above.
Incidentally, this isn’t the first time this particular sequence has been commented on; have a look at this AikiWeb thread for [...]

Some of you may be aware of the Fudoshin club that trains at Chapter Arts on Mondays: Dan Procida, who is kindly also hosting this site, hosts and maintains the Fudoshin club website, and has posted a few interesting articles.
So we thought that it would be worthwhile providing links and summaries here to some of [...]

I just thought that I would post up a little introduction to the grades/belt system that we use in aikido. This is an issue that often causes some confusion and is the source for questions when new people start training.
Typically aikido clubs use the kyu system. This means grade, rank or class in Japanese. However, [...]