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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For those of you enjoying the British Summer in Cardiff, we’re on our Summer schedule at the moment which means that we’re only training on Thursdays at 7-9pm, but we have some exciting events coming for the next (academic) year.
In particular, look out for Sensei Takeshi Yamashima, who is teaching at several UK clubs including [...]

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 [...]

Well Greg too has been and gone. We think that everyone would agree that he was excellent and we sincerely hope that he will visit to teach on another occasion. His ukemi and ken/iaido were particularly illuminating we thought and we’re sure that this will have a lasting influence on future training sessions.
As we’ve noted [...]