Genryukan Aikido

Robert Mustard Sensei Seminar – November

 

Robert Mustart Sensei
Robert Mustart Sensei

The Meikyokai Aikido club is holding a seminar with Sensei Robert Mustard 7th Dan Yoshinkan Aikido on November 7th and 8th at the Dartford Judo Centre in Kent. The seminar is an open event and would be of interest to all students of Aikido regardless of style.

 

Mustard Sensei is one of the leading exponents of Aikido in the world today having spent 10 years in Japan. In 1991 Mustard Sensei was appointed Itaku Shidoin by Shioda Kancho and remained the Chief Foreign Instructor at the Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo until he moved back to Canada in 1995

This is a great opportunity to train with one of the best aikidoka in the world today, so don’t miss out!

For more details, please download the PDF document available here with all the details on the course, please note that proof of insurance will be required and this can be provided at a minimal cost. (NB. This would be insurance with the BAB).

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Interesting Tomiki article from 1969

Tony Evangelou from London Aikido Dojo, very kindly uploaded an article originally published in Black Belt Magazine in 1969. Entitled “Maverick of the martial arts”, the article covers Tomiki Sensei’s approach to aikido, along with quite detailed mention of the techniques of the Randori no kata.

I enjoyed the reference to Tomiki practicing without any call to a metaphysical force, such as aikido’s “ki”.

Note the use of the aikijutsu terms ikkajo, sankajo and nage alongside the usual Tomiki nomenclature. Also the term shime-waza is used to refer to pinning.
Tomiki is also referred to as a “Judo and Karate instructor”. I don’t know if these are intentional or not, but did notice the obvious “tegata” and “akijutsu” spelling mistakes, so who knows.

Anyway the download is available at this link from London Aikido

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Charity Self Defence Class

We are holding a Self Defence Class on Friday 23rd September 6pm-8pm (the evening before the South of the River Seminar). Cost is a £5 donation to SAGA Charitable Trust. Instruction will be from Jim Dempster.
It is an open event, so all adults of any fitness level are welcome to attend.

The flyer for the event is available for download here.

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Sponsored Ukemi Challenge

As you may already know, Genryukan Aikido are holding a sponsored ukemi challenge on Monday 19th September. The challenge is for each participant to perform 100 flips (over arm breakfalls) within the single class.

We are raising money for SAGA Charitable Trust. We are looking to pay for a bore hole to provide 2000 people in Mukuni village, Zambia with a permanent clean water supply.

If you would like the sponsorship form you can download it here

We will of course film the event for everyone’s enjoyment afterwards.

Your support is very much appreciated.

Phil

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