Aikimail May-June 2012
The official newsletter of the Zen Eikoku Tomiki Aikido Renmei for the May-June 2012 is available for download:
Saturday sessions
Please note that there will be no Saturday sessions for a while.
Monday sessions remain the same starting at 7:30pm
We would like to remind everybody that they are many others quality classes throughout the week in other clubs in the area from Thanet up to Ashford.
Takeno Takafumi: Sharp, Fast, Powerful and Very Scary
Article on Aikiweb.com by Robert Mustard Shihan:
“Takeno sensei was the head instructor when I arrived in Japan. He was sharp, fast, powerful, and very scary. He was also the greatest teacher I have ever had the good fortune to learn from. He started using me for uke from almost the first day I lived in the dojo, and this is what it was like. One day in an afternoon practice, only David Rubens and I were the only ones practicing, and Takeno sensei came over to us and said, ” What do you want to do? ” We both just looked at him. He said, “Let’s do dai ichi kihon, which is the first group of basic techniques in the Yoshinkan syllabus. I have never forgotten that class all these years later. Takeno sensei destroyed us. I have never felt such uncompromising power in any technique EVER! He creamed me in every possible way, almost knocking me out with Ikkyo!!! Read more here >>“
BAA Spring School
BAA Spring School 2012 at the Winchester Lido Sports Centre
Church Lane (Off Worthy Lane) Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7DZ
Date: Saturday 2 to Monday 4 June 2012
Times: Daily: 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Coaches from within the British Aikido Association will include; Mike Smith, Bob Jones, Paul Wildish, Lesley Hepden, Tony Davis and Lee Mazacs
ETAN Competitions 2012
Junior European Championship 2012
October 27th and 28th Junior European Tournament
Sport- und Feriencenter, Fiesch, 3984 Fiesch, Switzerland
Pierre-Alain Zeiter competition host: zeiterpa@bluewin.ch
Lee Mazacs events co-ordinator leemazacs@hotmail.co.uk
Senior European Championships
August 17th-19th – Senior European Tournament
Moscow
Ilya Solonitsyn competition organiser and email is orgcom@raa.org.ru
Lee Mazacs BAA Contact point leemazacs@hotmail.co.uk
