Gyodokan Dojo

We had our last training sessions last night before we head out to Badalona (Spain), for the spring camp.

We are looking forward to 5 days of intense practice without the stresses and distractions of London life.

Both adults and kids classes resume at Gyodokan on the 11th of May.

Keep an eye out on our stories for snippets of our training days in Spain.

It’s been a while since our last update, as we have been busy with our training.

We have started a Kofi page for our aikido community with videos in Portuguese and English. You can become a “digital deshi” to have access to our videos on aikido/weapons/iaido, articles and bring up questions directly for us to answer. The link in in the bio.

We are also expanding the technical curriculum of the students including newaza, takedowns and more. It’s been a creative and fulfilling period.

A little more from the bokken vs jo waza during the IWD weapons class taught by Cathy Okada ( ) with Fran Torres taking ukemi.

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A short video of last weekend's weapons classes. The classes included Ai Uchi, kirigaeshi, kiriotoshi, San no Tachi and some bokken vs jyo waza.

A short clip from the weapons classes taught by Cathy Okada during the International Women's Day seminar at Aikido of London this weekend. We worked on Kirigaeshi, kiriotoshi, San no tachi, and some bokken vs Jo. A video from the class will be available this evening on Maai Perspective 's YouTube page.

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A short film of the first class from the International Women's Day seminar at Aikido of London on Saturday, taught by Cathy Okada sensei.