Our august examination panel ponder.
Courtesy Cathy Murphy.
A little late coming, here is the list of all who were successful in their gradings.
ROKKYU
Desmond Brennan
Jon Hartley
Sarah Modde
Kate  Neale
Uzman Rasheed
Robert Sword
Jiaxian Wang (sophia)
Michael Brunner
YONKYU
Ben  Beech
Rafal Jennek
Martins Pilegis
SANKYU
Nicola Zonta
Joel  Burton
Catherine  Murphy
Greg Maio
William Tindle
NIKYU
Jonathan Meldrum
IKKYU
James Harrison
Yousef Bendaoui

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 [...]

Rejoice! Your favourite aikido club is back in session from this evening. Usual time, usual place.

Those of you in the Facebook group will have already received this, but for those who haven’t, following is a message from our Treasurer, Joel:
Dear All
Due to Easter break there will be no training sessions at Talybont Dojo after tomorrow’s session (20th March 20:00 to 22:00) till the 3rd of April.
On the 3rd we will [...]

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, [...]