The national Aikido Shinruykan gasshuku (weekend seminar) is scheduled for 4-6 March 2011. As with previous years, we have exceptional guest instructors visiting New Zealand: Seijuro Masuda-Shihan (8th Dan) and Takeshi Yamashima-Shihan (7th Dan).
When booking your flights/accommodation, make sure you note the change of city. To commemorate Aikido Shinryukan Christchurch’s 20th Anniversary, this year’s gasshuku will be held in Christchurch.
Please visit their website for more informaiton.
Wow, what an amazing experience!
I was happy to see so many of our club members face the stress and challenge of a grading seminar, and turn those nerves into good demonstrations of aikido. Some brave souls even dared to smile their way through the whole thing! 
Despite my own nerves, and with generous support from Connie, we have a large set of images now available via Picasa. Should be open for everyone to see, so let me know if there are any issues.
Takase-Shihan (7th Dan) will be visiting Wellington for the weekend of 6-7 November 2010. Registration and training will start at 9am Saturday. Sensei will arrive at 10am.
Saturday | 9am to 4pm
Sunday | 9:30am to 4pm
Fees | Seminar – $70 for weekend or $40 per day
(Student Discounts available). Additional grading fees vary according to rank.
We are happy to announce our first women’s introductory Aikido class. Women of all ages, backgrounds and levels are welcome, current female students included!
When: every Saturday. You can join at any time!
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm (if there is interest we can extend the session to 12:30)
For more information or bookings contact Brenda (brendacheyne@gmail.com) or Claudia (claudia@cchill.net) or phone Brenda on 04 387 7468.
Note:
We do offer a generic introduction to Aikido for everyone on Wednesdays, 6:30pm – 8:00pm.
Aikido Tenshindo has been invited to participate in the Japanese Festival of Wellington. The festival is tomorrow (5th September from 1pm to 7pm). More event info…
There will be a number of demonstrations from karate to taiko (drum group) to tea ceremony. And, our friends from Wellington Judo and Jujitsu have kindly offered us some of their demonstration time. If you’d like to join us on stage, or just come and watch, we’re scheduled for five minutes between 5:15pm and 5:35pm.
The festival is a combination of free cultural events, and a great way to mark the beginning of Spring.
Yesterday morning, Richard, Shane and I laid the high-density underlay onto the new dojo floor. There is still a bit of trimming to do to fit the pieces into the tight spaces, but most of it is down.
Richard will be arranging a van for Monday to transport the Massey mats to their new home. That’s right, we’re very close to having our very own space, and implementing our new training schedule!
This is a very exciting time for Wellington Aikido Club.
