There is NO TRAINING on the 28th of March 2009.
I think the dojo is in use. Sorry, you’ll all have to spend your Saturday some other way!
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Stephane Benedetti with sensei Dave
Click image to enlarge. © 2007 Ian Llewellyn
Stephane Benedetti is coming back to Cardiff!!
He will be here on the 21st of March from 2pm until 5pm. For those of you who have not trained with Stephane before, he is a 6th dan and an amazing teacher. His aikido is both soft [...]
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
Click image to enlarge. @David Colwill
As a little New Year’s treat, here’s a photo of an aikido poster I randomly came across last summer down a dingy alleyway in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana. Enjoy.
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 [...]
