On Tuesday 2nd March, Gowaryu Aikido will be receiving Neil Saunders Sensei from Meikyokai Aikido, and some of his students.
The session will be at the Swan Centre, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Free training session!
For our first training session at the Clarendon & Westbury Community Community Centre, Genryukan Aikido is holding a free training session for everybody!
We’ll be able to practice in a calm environment free of distractions.
The new venue is:
Clarendon & Westbury Community Centre
Belgrave Road, Dover
CT17 9RA
(click here to find a map of the location)
Beginners are always welcome, at any time!
Aikimail January/February 2010
The official newsletter of the Zen Eikoku Tomiki Aikido Renmei for January/February 2010 is available for download:
- Aikimail January/February 2010
New venue!
I am really pleased to announce that we are soon moving to a new venue, the Clarendon & Westbury Community Centre. It is located in Belgrave Road, off Folkestone Road in Dover.
We are planning to train there from the 22nd February, every Monday from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
We must thank Richard Scopes Sensei from Dover Bushido Judo Club who very kindly agreed to lend us their mats. This allows us to move sooner than we hoped for.
Also thanks to the Vista Leisure Centre that allowed us to get started at the first place.
5 Lessons from aikido
Saw this on Mokuren Dojo. Thought you might like it…..
I suspect there are a lot of people out there who have some interest in or respect for aikido, but don’t have a teacher or perhaps your teacher is teaching you some other art and you wish you could explore some of the ideas from aikido. Following are five lessons that I consider to be the heart of aikido. I think that if you get nothing else from aikido, you ought to think about exploring these five ideas.
ma-ai – if they can’t touch you, they can’t hurt you. If they have to come to you to touch you, you have the advantage of knowing what they are going to do, and you get a chance to act while they’re doing it. So, try to keep them outside touching distance.
tai-sabaki – anytime the enemy positions themselves where they can easily touch you, reposition yourself where they can’t easily touch you.
airen – compassion – pity – mercy – love – you can (often) defend yourself effectively without attacking the “enemy”.
shomenate – whenever anything goes wrong, hit them in the face. This one technique will solve 80% of your problems, and it will set up all the other techniques in the system.
kito (yin-yang, in-yo) in any situation, energy waxes and wanes. Riding the direction and rise and fall of energy is often wiser than opposing it.
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