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Week-long Summer School in Třešť 2024

Week-long Summer School in Třešť 2024

Letošní soustředění mládeže výjimečně neprobíhalo ani ve Slovenském ráji ani v Jeseníkách, ale v námi oblíbené Třešti. Hlavní náplní celé akce byly dopolední tréninky na tatami a odpolední cvičení v přírodě s džo, na kterých jsme rozvíjeli především živost, aktivitu a pohyblivost…

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Photos, stories, emotions… our 2023 Annual Report

Photos, stories, emotions… our 2023 Annual Report

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…

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One hundred or two hundred kids? With ease!

One hundred or two hundred kids? With ease!

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..

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Barcelona, Lisbon, London and Toulouse: an international exchange of inspiration in spring 2024

Barcelona, Lisbon, London and Toulouse: an international exchange of inspiration in spring 2024

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.

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“O-sensei” button in Berlin

“O-sensei” button in Berlin

We’ve arrived to Berlin on Friday evening and slept the first day in Kranich dojo. Martin and Vanda were already training in the other dojo and before sleeping we all went to a Chinese restaurant to have some nice dumplings (and accidentally practiced a bit of Chinese)
In the dojo, right before sleeping, we’ve tried to click a button with “Ó-Sensei” written on it.

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Karaoke and the Friday night fever

Karaoke and the Friday night fever

This evening was unpredictable, it was the first time most of us had been to a karaoke bar. Is anyone gonna show up? And who? The possible group changed all Friday, people checking in and out as their schedule continually changed. In the end, eighteen of us showed up. First singing attempts, first drinks, uncertainty gradually dispelled by laughter. Fortunately, there are those among us who can skillfully balance between awkwardness and wit and managed to pull the others down. But we had no idea what awaited us later…

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