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Notes from the 2019 Annual Spring Seminar at Minnesota Aiki Shuren Dojo.

How is Iwama Style Aikido different from other styles?

Aikido of San Leandro Celebrates it’s 35th Anniversary. Yvonne Thelwell Sensei also demonstrates for her Rokudan! […]

Our first Kagami Biraki celebration!

Our Inaugural Outdoor Bukiwaza Class!

Introduction This is the first of multiple posts that are intended to help both me, and my students, develop a […]

This is a wonderful podcast by Aikido Journal featuring Patricia Hendricks Shihan (CAA Division 1 Director).  I […]

For the last few weeks, we’ve been working on applying a given technique to a range of attacks.  We’ll […]

We opened this weekend!  Liz and I held class on Saturday at 10 AM…  Our taijutsu focus this week is on […]

Our visit to the annual 2018 Tai Sai seminar at Aikido of Arlington

We’ve got the dojo largely set up, and we’ve set our opening day as May 5th (Cinco de Mayo!).  […]

Our mats arrived on Tuesday 3 April 2018…  We’ve spent the last few days laying them out and we expect […]

The mat surface is prepped…  We’ve got one corner of the frame completed so we can square the mats […]

We’ve got 30 tatami arriving late next week.  Renovations are finishing up today/tomorrow, and we get keys […]

After a few weeks of comparing “faux-Tatami” mats, we’ve settled on buying 30 2″ Zebra […]

We dropped by to visit the new dojo space yesterday and demolition had already started!  All of the walls have […]

After several weeks of looking for a practice space, we’ve signed the lease on a space @ 1863 N. Circle […]

Over the weekend we submitted a Letter of Intent to the landlord of a 1404 sq ft space in SW Colorado Springs. […]