Young Aikidists in nature
is a school of the martial art aikido for adults, youth and children.
Considering the amount of our classes, number of students and high level of organized seminars we belong among the most active European aikido clubs.
Meeting of aikidokas from all over the Czech Republic – one of this year’s teachers was Martin. And after the seminar several of us practiced for the dan grades. Who were they and how did it go? Read on!
A very unusual sleepover…
That Saturday in December was really busy – with training and meeting friends. How much aikido can be done in one day?
For the fourth time, we organized a large international seminar for children and young people in Prague: Aiki4Kids 2024.
One of the most interesting and oldest teachers in Aikikai Hombu Dojo is Miyamoto sensei… and we went to his seminar in Toulouse in November.
Our demonstration at the Japanese Autumn Festival was exceptional this year – it was prepared and practiced mainly by our young people…
Two weeks of exercise and twice daily training, that’s how the trip to the French island of Oleron could be described in a nutshell.
This year’s youth camp was exceptionally held neither in the Slovak Paradise nor in the Jeseníky Mountains, but in our favourite Třešt’. The main content of the whole event was morning training on tatami and afternoon outdoor training with joe, where we developed liveliness, activity and mobility…
Once again we have prepared two dates of suburban aikido camps for children aged 6 to 12 years old for the beginning of summer. Both runs were successful and the kids and teachers had a lot of fun.
Can you believe that we organized 22 events in 12 months and had almost 300 people training with us? It will take you a few minutes to flip through our annual report, which is 32 pages of pure pictorial delight. The photos will remind you of all we’ve experienced and where we’ve been. The text is short and to the point, so if you’re interested in the behind-the-scenes details of the dojo, you’ll find some. You can find the full report inside the article…
One Sunday in June, we did a little work and a little practice in the vineyard of Bogdan Trojak in Zernosky. We really worked hard all day and we knitted less than 4 rows… out of an infinite number of lines.
A great reminder of how much human work is behind every tasty mouthful of food and every good sip of wine.
This year we managed the Sport for Two festival perfectly, even though there were about a thousand children in the Vinohrady Sokol Hall and it was really hot. We did four mini-training sessions in three hours and we must have had 100–200 kids crossing the tatami, a mix from six to thirteen years old. Isn’t that possible? For Martin and Tachan, it’s no problem..
One of the best things about Aikido is that you can stop by virtually any club in the world and just work out with the locals. And also that aikido seminars are open events where people from all over the continent meet. So meeting new people and places through the practice of aikido is really easy. In this short text, we recap a few of our travels this spring.
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.
