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Hobart, Tasmania/Conningham

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Vance Karena, who trained in Riai Aikido in New Zealand under Henry Lynch sensei (the chief instructor for Riai Aikido), held an official opening of Riai’s new Nelson Bay dojo on March 8. He invited three members of AKI (Ayano Seymour, Steve Seymour and Jason Nyilas) to join him in christening his new mats. Henry and Fiona Lynch flew over from Auckland to celebrate the occasion.After an initial

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Our annual international gasshuku was held on 29th & 30th January 2007, one day before New Year's eve.Unlike last year's 43 degrees, weather was perfect for training but it didn't help our one year older bodies. Yass sensei must have sensed it as he lead us with a slower pace without smashing us too much but he still kept the sharpness throughout.The highlight of this gasshuku was seeing six

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An invitation to AKI Aust to join this seminar saw 3 AKI members from Balmain attend the seminar hosted by Auckland Aikikai, at a scout camp facility on the shores of Manukau Harbour on October 27/28th. We were also fortunate to attend Mt Eden (AKL Aikikai) dojo on the Thursday prior to camp for Fujita Sensei’s class.Fujita Sensei’s instruction was precise and focused on taisabaki and maai- (body

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Impressions at Neutral Bay dojo At the beginning of 2007, our dojo moved locations. We had been in North Sydney for 18 months in a wonderful, newly refurbished dance studio. Now, we train in a church hall at St. John’s Uniting Church in Neutral Bay. The church is quiet and very spacious. The surroundings provide a calming, peaceful and relaxing atmosphere. We have even turned off all the lights

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Stephen Seymour was awarded his 5th Dan by the Doshu at a ceremony at Hombu in Tokyo Japan this 14th January. With usual humility, he kept this momentous event very very secret, but the Aikido world is very small and eventually all such secrets get out. So while he would not be so keen to see the achievement celebrated on a personal level - it is an achievement which celebrates and acknowledges

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We all wish you Merry Christmas and very delightful 2007.

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On Saturday 18th November Terrey Hills dojo hosted Rosso Fernandez sensei for a one day seminar. Rosso sensei, 6th dan, is head instructor of Auckland Aikikai in New Zealand. 50 aikidoka from east coast Austalia participated and 4 from NZ came across with Sensei. AKI Aust were invited and 19 aikidoka attended in support of Paul Sinkinson who is the head instructor at Terrey Hills dojo.

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We had 6 people (3 women & 3 men) attend to the last beginners class and they all joined the group afterwards. So we are having another beginners class on 2 Mondays, 30th October and 6th November.The purpose of this 2 session course is to introduce our style of Aikido to people who have no experience but are interested in starting Aikido.You can join and start Aikido with us any time throughout

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The day was started by Colin Hackett's speech "Make new friends and go home". If it was the theme of this godo-geiko (cross training), we can say it was very successful.This cross training between 3 different groups just happened after our instructor Steve Seymour spoke with Paul Sinkinson from Terrey Hills dojo at the cafe after training one time. This year we have been trying to expand our

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Numata sensei’s training session at Balmain was a little different from your standard Aikido training (if there is such a thing). He introduced us to some “body awareness” type movements that at one point made the Dojo look more like a drama class than a martial art training.It was quite funny to experience the change in atmosphere as everyone watched in enjoyment as he proceeded to demonstrate

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In January 2006, there was a gathering of Aikidoka from around the world in Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Aikikai Australia. Guest instructors included Doshu and his deshi Kodani Sensei; Sugano Sensei, founder and chief instructor of Australia; Yamada Sensei from New York Aikikai; Takase Sensei from New Zealand Aikikai; Ken Cottier Sensei from Hong Kong Aikikai and a

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The close cooperation between Australian and Japan continued at SummerCamp at Therry Hills in December 2005. It felt like a continuation ofthe relationships and training we had started to develop during ourvisit to Japan in May 2005 and I hope it only serves to deepen therelationship between us. It was great to see Yass-San, Hiroshi-San, Genichi-San and Sato-Sanagain and to learn from them on

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Overall, it turned out to be such a nice day and left same after taste as when we have big successful aikido camps. The jo instructor John Bear's approach "jo with movement" was practical and fun. It suddenly all made sense when techniques have a hip movement. We learnt about 8 different techniques all together in 3 hours though time flew by. After lunch, I knew we were going to have aikido

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8th & 9th of October, A.K.I. aikidoka got together in Canberra for training & grading weekend. The events of the 2 days were as follows;Sat 0900-1130 Training@Turner PCYCSat 1400-1500 Training-Demo@FloriadeSun 0900-1230 Training and Gradings@Tengoku DojoPhotos of Floriade demo click hereSunday, after 2 hour training 4 x5th kyus, 2 x4th kyus, 3 x1st kyus took grading and Di Wright 2nd dan .

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The 2nd annual enbukai was held at Bondi Beach dojo.30 people from Sydney, Orange, Canberra, Blue Mountains, and Central Coast attended.The day started with 3 training classes lead by Berin Mackenzie, Mike McGregor and Stephen Seymour.After 3 hours of training we all participated aikido demonstration which strictly followed Enbukai in Japan.Thank you Berin for organising all this.Click for more

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