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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.

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 [...]

Next weekend we are playing host to the ever excellent Stephane Benedetti. Those of you who have trained with Mr Benedetti on other occasions when he’s visited us will be able to vouch for the quality of his teaching, which is soft and subtle. A favoured saying of his is that “laziness is an exact [...]

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!

Hey guys, for all you already coming to the Philippe Voarino seminars we’re hosting, we have another special treat: a meal at the Vegetarian Food Studio. The place is meant to be really awesome, and well worth trying out for even the most diehard carnivore!
If anyone would like to join us for this buffet-style feast [...]

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 [...]

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©Ian LlewelynWe are very pleased to be hosting a visit by a renowned 6th dan, Philippe Voarino.
Voarino began studying aikido under Nobuyoshi Tamura in 1977. He is one of several French aikido teachers of international reputation, having worked within and beyond France to promote and develop aikido. Philippe is a superb teacher, and [...]

Cathy has arranged the first social of the year, which should be fun:
Righto, time for the first Aikido Social, basic plan is to get knacked at practice on the Sat, have a little rest then do a civilised pub crawl around Cathays (starting at the Woody and moving on from there). Vague we know but [...]

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 [...]