Videos of four basic techniques for our beginners.
Together with our beginners we filmed the preparation for grades 6 and 5 kyu. If you are going to either of these grades, this help might be useful for your preparation.
This interview with Franck Noel is a very special and information-rich event! Franck talks about his beginnings, his stay in Japan and especially what he thinks about Aikido and its teaching. Fluent narration, a lifetime of experience and also gentle jokes.
Green hills, cold streams, narrow rock passes and in the middle of it all young people from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine practicing aikido for a week.
We were in the Slovenský ráj again and it was wonderful!
“Aikido is not what you think” is a very nice video from our friends at Dojo de la Roseraie. In it you will see among others Franck Noel and Gaston Nicolessi, with whom we train regularly in Prague and France.
s the years go by, our Shihan Franck Noel gradually reduces the number of his seminars in Europe. And yet this year he found time to visit Prague.
Hanami is a Japanese spring festival associated with sakura blossoms – traditionally associated with the search for peace and tranquility. It has been celebrated in Prague’s Dejvice for twenty-three years under the auspices of the The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. This year we participated in this festival for the first time with an aikido demonstration.
Zdenko Reguli’s seminar in Prague in December was well attended after three long years. Besides us from Vinohrady, aikidists from more than 10 other clubs (even from abroad) came to practice.
This year’s Japanese Autumn Festival was spectacular! After a two-year hiatus, over three thousand admirers of Japanese culture gathered at Prague’s Markéta. The festival was organized by the Association of Japanese in the Czech Republic (Čeko Nihonjin Kai) and we again had the great honour of demonstrating Aikido at the festival. It was really a pleasure to practice there.
Our suburban camps are full of exercises, games and Japanese culture. Children first learn to be strong fighters, and then aikidists – people who help others and protect life. This year we again held two dates and had a great time with the kids.
In the shade of the lush green trees at the centuries-old Vyšehrad Castle, looking down on the metropolis, the fifteenth annual Japanese celebration of spring, symbolically called “Bodaiju matsuri” or “Festival of Lime Trees”, took place. And we were there with our martial arts demonstrations and workshop.
Gaston Nicolessi (6th dan) attracts many young aikidists with his dynamic practice and very open approach, making his seminars very lively and friendly.
Swedish teacher Jan Nevelius (7th dan) has been visiting us regularly for many years and brings us inspiration in the form of stable and dynamic aikido.
7 days and 6 hours of training a day. Training with and without weapons, indoors and outdoors, during day and during night, in keiko-gi and tracksuit. And with food, games, massages, sleep, additional training and exams in between. See the video!
Atlantic Ocean, oysters, cheese, wine and aikido – this is a two-week summer school of aikido on the French island of Oleron. Usually we go there in a larger group, this year we traveled only Martin, Vanda and Barborka.
We really enjoyed it all – you can join us next time!