The Fudokai Aikido Dojo will be having a short break over the Christmas period.
The last class of 2009 will be on Monday 21st December and the first class of 2010 will be Monday 11th January.
Merry Christmas to one and all and a happy and prosperous New Year.
I had this link passed on to me by a fellow aikido instructor.
I already knew of the marathon monks, having read John Stevens book but it's interesting to see the video report on them.
Follow this link to see a brief documentary about the marathon monks on YouTube.
The Fudokai Aikido Dojo will close for a late summer break at the end of September.
This means that there will no classes held on Monday 28th September and Monday 5th October 2009.
The next class following this will be on Monday 12th October.
George Forbes, the founder of Shobu Aikido UK was recently awarded 6th Dan by Pierre Chassang sensei.
The Fudokai Aikido Dojo does not run classes on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Accordingly there will not be a class on Monday 31st August.
The Shobu Aikido Annual Membership fees have gone up in July. They've been static for over 5 years so it's not an unbearable increase.
| Annual fees (July 2009) | |
|---|---|
| type | fee |
| standard | £25 |
| unwaged | £15 |
| junior (<18) | £10 |
The other news is that SAUK has become part of The International Takemusu Aikido Federation (ITAF). This is a European Organisation created by a number of high ranking Aikidoka (including Pierre Chasang) who seek to create a European based organisation for the proliferation of Aikido without direct links to the Hombu, so that fees paid into ITAF as a parent organisation at least in part, come back to SAUK.
We don't hold classes on Bank Holiday Mondays as there's a long running history of poor attendance on Bank Holidays so there will not be a class on the Spring Bank Holiday Monday 25th May.
I've finally got around to implementing the new web site layout and here it is.
I spent ages trying to get Microsoft's awful IE web-browser to handle images as bullets in lists and finally gave up in disgust and left IE just showing the standard disc. This means that IE user will NOT see the site as it was meant to be - I've got better things to do with my life than to try and work around Microsoft's bugs.
If you are stuck with being Microsoft user, please, please download a real standards-compliant web browser such as Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) or Opera (http://www.opera.com) and just use IE to keep your system patched.
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30/31st May, Nirvana Fitness Centre, Lowestoft
Haydn Foster - 7th Dan, IOA
Philip Smith - 6th Dan, UKA
Barbara Moss - 5th Dan, Yama Arashi
Pat Narey - 5th Dan, UKA
Frank Burlingham - 5th Dan, IOA/UKA
Shane Riley - 6th Dan, White Rose Aikido
