Sensei Hiro Ishihara will be teaching Thursday February 23, 2017
Sensei Matt Knight will be teaching Thursday, March 2, 2017
Sensei Hiro Ishihara will be teaching Thursday February 23, 2017
Sensei Matt Knight will be teaching Thursday, March 2, 2017
Sensei Matsuo & Seiseikai invite black belts from Aiki Budo Centre to attend the annual Kamakuru Gashuku May 13th & 14th.
This is the 30th Anniversary of this Gashuku and a ceremony for those attending will be held on May 14, 2017. Many other training opportunities are available on May 15th, 17th and 21st.
If you are a black belt and are interested in attending, please advise Sensei Sheppard. The club will sponsor your entrance fee.
Sensei Jaimie extends an invitation to all members of Aiki Budo Centre to attend our last class of 2016 on Thursday, December 22 with Sensei Ishihara instructing .
Our Aiki Budo Centre Year End Party will be on Saturday Dec 3rd, 9:30-12noon. All club members and their families are welcome.
Sensei Therese Chow would like to remind anyone who attends Friday’s class that during the first week of the Carling Heights Optimist Community Centre closure, class on Friday June 24 class will be held at the St. Thomas Dojo (561 Talbot St, St. Thomas). Car pooling is available. Cars will depart from Carling Heights Optimist Community Centre parking lot at 6:00pm, and from the Canadian Tire by White Oaks mall at 6:15pm. Class will run from 7-8:30pm.
Sensei Gruninger has announced a change in Test Date:
The Kyu test will now be on Saturday, May 14, 2016 with an alternate date on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.
Here Sensei Jaimie Sheppard takes ukemi from Kiyoyuki Terada (Yoshinkan Aikido Saikō Komon or Yoshinkan Aikido Supreme Advisor) who along with Gozo Shioda co-founded Yoshinkan Aikido in the years following the Second World War. In this clip, from September 2002, we see Terada Sensei at the age of 80 performing Kata Mochi Yokomen Uchi Shihonage.
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Sensei Jaimie announced that he is able to get uniforms embroidered with our club kanji at a cost of $8.00. Bring in a clean uniform, labeled with your name attached, if you wish to have one.