Zainuddin Abd Khalic sensei's seminar 12th-14th December 2008

Aikidamashii dojo is proud to host a seminar by Zainuddin Abd Khalic sensei, 3rd dan and President of Aikikai Malaysia Association. The seminar will be held from 12th-14th December 2008.

For more information please contact Hj Sabtu Hj Awg Besar at hjsabtu@yahoo.com.sg or +6738841155. Please take note that the deadline for registration will close on 7th December 2008.

Yoshinobu Takeda shihan's seminar, Jakarta, Indonesia

Aiki Kenkyukai in Jakarta, Indonesia will be hosting a seminar by Yoshinobu Takeda shihan from 15-17th November 2008. It was orignially scheduled to be held in 2 venues but now all session will be held at Indosat building. The seminar fee is USD125 for those who register and pay before 30th September 2008 and USD for those who register and pay after the said date.

Apparently Yoshinobu shihan has a unique "No Touch" phenomenon in his practice of aikido as can be seen in this Youtube video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj6HRxcJmNo. Hopefully this aspect of training will be imparted during the seminar.

The dojo-cho of Aiki Kenkyukai is Imanul Hakim sensei, 4th dan. For more information on Aiki Kekyukai and the seminar please visit this website http://www.aiki-kenkyukai.com/

One of the members of Aikidamashii will be attending the seminar so please come back and visit us again after the seminar for more information on the seminar.

The page below was copied and pasted from the Aiki Kenkyukai website.

AIKI KENKYUKAI DOJO PRESENT

Yoshinobu Takeda Shihan's Seminar

15 ~ 16 November 2008

Welcome...

We would like to invite you to participate in our seminar with Yoshinobu Takeda Shihan (8th Dan) of Shonan Aikikai / Aikido Kenkyukai International.

Date	Venue
15 ~ 16 November 2008	Indosat Auditorium 4th floor Indosat Building Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat - Jakarta Pusat - Indonesia
17 November 2008 (Special Class)	Auditorium Graha Surveyor Indonesia 4th floor Graha Surveyor Indonesia Building Jl. Gatot Subroto - Jakarta - Indonesia

Seminar Fee :

For more information please contact: info [at] aiki-kenkyukai.com

The registration will be closed on 30th September 2008.

Book Now!! Seats are limited....

Download the Registration Form here.

Looking forward to meet you at the seminar in Jakarta Indonesia, this November.

Practice on 6th November 2008

It has been a while since anyone of us got to work our knees so guess what techniques we had to practice on that night? Yes you guessed it, hanmi handachi waza.

We have to execute iriminage, kotegaeshi and shihonage techniques in hanmi handachi position from shomenuchi, yokomenuchi, katatedori and kosa dori attacks. It is basically the same as executing the waza in tachi position but we were reminded that only for hanmi handachi shomenuchi shihonage that we finish the technique in tachi position.

Somehow this session seemed to be less taxing than the last. lost Sensei showed us a few pointers on executing shihonage and being the uke for that technique. As kosa dori techniques were rarely tested on sensei thought that it would be prudent to let practice on the same. we were told not to rush in execution of techniques and reminded us of kuzushi of uke as well as making sure that flow is not lost during execution.

The jiyuwaza session was against katatedori attacks. Sensei noted that during jiyuwaza we tend to ignore awase and atemi and we need to pay attention to our tai sabaki. As usual the class ended with suwariwaza kokyuho.

After practice we treated ourselves to some home made cookies!

10th IAF Congress & Seminar - 6th October 2008 Founder's Day

On the second day of arrival in Tanabe the 10th IAF Congress & Seminar programme officially started. In the morning the delegates and participants were to visit the gravesite of O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba and prayers were held for him on Founder's day. As they were many people that day we were told to follow the blue coloured banner. Some time were given to us to look around but the crowd quickly gathered around the temple area where paryer's were being held for O sensei. Among the attendees were Doshu and his family, Dr Peter Goldsbury who is the president of the IAF, Mayor of Tanabe, Governor of Wakayama prefecture, shihans and delegates.

After the prayers the we were invited to pay our respects by offering incense and thereafter we proceeded to line up to pay our respects to at O Sensei's gravesite. Due to time constraint after respects were paid we were quickly ushered back to the bus to have lunch and prepare for the first 2 seminars in the afternoon to be conducted by Shoji Seki shihan from Hombu Dojo, 7th dan and Tony Smibert shihan from Australia, 6th dan.

Sensei busy taking video

Lining up to offer incense to O sensei

We were given tea, oranges and plum wine

O sensei's gravesite

Sensei ready for the seminar in the afternoon!

Practice on 3rd November 2008

It was another day in the schedule of the intensive training programme that sensei has come up for us and tonight we concentrated on ushiro waza. We practised ushiro ryote dori dai nikyyo to gokyo. It proved to be a problem for all of us in certain parts of the execution anf sensei placed emphasis on the flow and posture during execution.

The last part of training was practising jiyuwaza against morotedori attacks. It was a attacked not often used during kiyuwaza practice and sensei wanted to see how the students would cope with it. After the session sensei would point out the mistakes that were made and demonstrate certain techniques used in jiyuwaza. Sensei reminded that kuzushi should be done on the uke and that musubi must be maintain during the execution of the technique. That would involve both the nage and uke. It is not easy to understand the concept of musubi and all can be said is that it takes practice.

Sensei showed some drills and requested the students to do the same and to achieve kuzushi of uke.

Sensei became the uke so that he knows whether the student is moving correctly

Sensei carefully explaining to students

Making it work