Hi All,
Here’s a few photos from the recent Grimsby Course. It was a great weekend, great practice, great company, great food and drink – what more can you ask !
Thanks to our friends in Grimsby for hosting once again and thanks everyone that came along.
Here’s to more practice and courses in the new year.
Hi Everyone,
Here is the first of two updates on the Aikido course in Grimsby a few weeks ago.
For all those that couldn’t make it, it really was a great course and even though we from Aikido Northampton did not stop for the Sunday session, we thoroughly enjoyed it, both on and off the mat !
It started off on Friday evening with our old friend (in both senses of the phrase) Mike Jennings being awarded a long overdue grade of 4th Dan, made even more special by the completely full mat and also an appearance by his first ever Aikido Instructor John Gorry
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John Gorry explaining how he knocked some Aikdo basics into Mike on his first class
Well Done Mike !
Hi all,
There is a course in Grimsby on the above dates which will, I’m sure, be very worthwhile attending if possible.
The Friday night session (not shown on the poster) will be at the Sports and Leisure centre Cleethorpes and will be ran by Mike Jennings.
The Saturday and Sunday are are a different venue with many different instructors – please see the poster for more details. Any questions – just speak to Steve, Cathy or Joe.
You obviously don’t have to attend all sessions, hope to see you there.
Les Fisher (ex boxer) and me (not my normal pose !)
SK – “The Leg Man !”
Me & Les – after a night’s sparring
Mick Bird, Mark Sessions, Me & Les
Les – Tameshiwari demo
“Old” John Wiley, SK, me, Mark, Straus, Les
Just a quick note to say I’ve re-written by biography from scratch – as it was the only one that I didn’t keep prior to the hack !
The Perfect Warm Down Exercise !
Back in 2000, I took my 3rd Dan in Aikido. The grading consisted of me instructing a 1/2 day course to a range of grades of Aikido, then peforming techniques as requested by the examiner (Vince Thompson)
However, the most daunting aspect was being asked to to produce a paper on “The Effect Of Aikido On The Individual”. I had not done anything like this in years and to be honest, dreaded the thought.
However, as soon as I had done it, I felt I had actually learned a lot about myself in the process.
Steve Moyles
A few years ago, I was interviewed by Radio Northampton. On the basis I know you missed it, here it is !
If you listen to it to the end, the picture will make sense.
Here are the answers to the questions most commonly asked by someone who is new to Aikido.
Obviously, you will have others, so please contact us to discuss anything directly.
How should we Uke ? What is expected of Uke ? Should everyone Uke the same ?
Steve Copson answers these and many more such questions on this key aspect of Aikido.
