Aikido Yoshinkai

Bryan Green, 3rd Kyu, has been sharing his passion for Aikido with Yukoners since January of 2009.

Bryan has been training in the St. Elias Community School Gym, using mats acquired by Richard Clark, who taught Judo in Haines Junction and who now attends Bryan’s classes. Callum’s mom is working to find a dojo space in town, and classes will resume in the Fall.

Kids classes are very well attended, with 4-8 students per class, ages 5-10 years.

Adult classes are held once or twice a week, with 2 students in regular attendance.

Bryan’s most avid student is Callum Cowie-Weir, age 5, whose effort and discipline is worth recognition.

Bryan hopes to begin fundraising for a trip to Japan for the summer of 2010 where he will pursue intensive training and testing.

Emperor Akihito visits VJLS

The members of the Sokushinkan Dojo, which is located in the Vancouver Japanese Language School, were honoured to be invited to take part in the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Japan on Sunday July 12, 2009, to the VJLS. Outside the School, Chris and Jamie (from Sowakan Dojo of Maple Ridge), dressed in dogi and hakama, were part of the crowd lining the sidewalks. Inside, in the Japanese Hall, also dressed in dogi and hakama, Greg had the privilege of being part of a group of instructors representing the VJLS Cultural Activities partners, and more specifically representing Yoshinkan Aikido and Keith Taylor, Sixth Dan dojocho of Sokushinkan Dojo. Greg had a brief moment, as did everyone on the welcoming committee (over 50 people) to speak briefly with both the Emperor and Empress.

Our thanks to the visit organizers, especially Laura, of the VJLS.

Found a nice video of Ando Sensei teaching katate mochi shihonage osae ichi
(wrist grasp all direction pin number one)

Shihonage – By Ando Sensei

It is in japanese, but pay close attention to how he pushes forward with his whole body, and how much care he puts into the arm position.

Notice any differences or similiarities to how we teach/train in the technique?

Be grateful for hardship, setbacks and bad people. Dealing with obstacles is an essential part of training.

-Ueshiba

I have arrived safe in the lion city. It is quite warm (~30C + humidity) but I the place is treating me very well. Missed  Aikido class on Sunday, as I had just arrived. I will try to make it for next week.

miss you all

OSU!

as you may have noticed, the blog site is now live!

you can still access the old site here:

http://www.aikidobc.com/archive/

some of the links, especially to images, on both sites may not be working all that great. feel free to send an email, or comment if you find any bad links.

osu!

As i am heading off for my big Asia adventure, Wednesday classes will be cancelled until further notice.

There may be someone taking over, but will update here when more news comes available

Junior Techniques:
- Katate Mochi Sokumen Uchi Irimi Nage Ichi/Ni

Advanced:
- Ushiro Eri Mochi Ikkajo Osae Ichi/Ni
- Ushiro Katate Eri Mochi Ikkajo Osae Ichi/Ni
- Katate Mochi Nikajo Osae Ichi/Ni

Last week we worked on the Ushiro techniques & in light of the questions regarding the techniques I thought it would be prudent to repeat the class so everyone has firm grasp on the techniques. Comments??

**Junior Techniques** 8th Kyu – Sowakan adults book for Test prep

Junior Techniques:
Shumatsu Dosa Osae Ichi/Ni
Katate Mochi Shihonage Ni
Advanced Techniques:
Ushiro Ryote Mochi Ikkajo Osae Ichi/Ni
Ushiro Ryohiji Mochi Ikkajo Osae Ichi/Ni
Ushiro Ryokata Mochi Ikkajo Osae Ichi/Ni

Bilfinger Berger will be doing paving on monday, february 23rd, possibly extending into tuesday.

will be nice to see what it looks like after its done. this should give us more parking, and a much nicer entrance to our lot.

Just about forgot, didn’t I…
Junior Technique:
Shumatsu Dosa Ichi/Ni
Katate Mochi Shihonage Ichi/Ni
Advanced Techniques:
Ryote Mochi Ikkajo osae Ichi/Ni
Hiji Mochi Ikkajo osae Ichi/Ni
Kata Mochi Ikkajo osae Ichi/Ni

On Sunday Keith and Christopher headed to Island Aikido for an impromptu class. We had a good sized turnout of ten students. We practiced the following techniques:

Kihon Dosa
Hiriki no yosei ichi
Hiriki no yosei Ni
Hiriki no yosei ichi w. Partner

Hiriki no yosei to nikkajo ni. Ikkajo pin

Katate moochi kokyonage
Ryote moochi kokyunage
Katate moochi hijiate kokyunage

Thanks a bunch to island Aikido for hosting us, we had a great time!

Osu!

Junior Techniques
- Shumatsu Dosa Osae Ichi/Ni

- Shomen Uchi Ikkajo Osae (1)

Advanced Techniques

- Shomen Uchi Ikkajo Osae (2)
- Yokomen Uchi Ikkajo Osae (1/2)
- Katate Mochi Ikkajo Osae (1)

After class on Saturday Chris, Jamie, Taylor Sensei and I had an impromptu club meeting over lunch at the new Shinobi Sushi restaurant on 224th, very good btw, during which an idea was floated about posting the weeks techniques on the blog to give everyone an idea of what we would be doing ahead of schedule and also as a method of keeping track of techniques performed for future reference. During Parker Shihans ‘06 Seminar he put myself and Greg in contact with Ashley Hennessey Sensei from London, Ontario. Hennessey Sensei has drafted a 6 month outline that we think would be a would be  a very good starting point for the Advanced portion of Tuesdays class with Taylor Sensei’s input at the Thursday class.

For the week of Feb 2/09 the following techniques will be performed in class.

Advanced Techniques

Hanmi handachi katate mochi shihonage 1/2
Shomen uchi shihonage
Yokomen uchi shihonage 1/2

Please note this is an excerpt with acknowledgement to Ashley Hennessey Sensei.

Junior Techniques done Tues Feb 3rd:

Mune Mochi Irimizuki

Mune Mochi Kotegaeshi