Ashburton Aikido

I like this approach. It seems to me martial artists (in general) tend to start "self defencing" from the physical contact stage, rather than starting the discussion a little earlier than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHG4jolauak

A but of fun

AIKIDO - Taisabaki [KYU SHIN KAN] 06 Peter Brown 6th Dan KYU SHIN KAN are part of the UNITED KINGDOM AIKIKAI and are primarily based in Leicester, England. The House Leader is Peter Brown Sensei who is currently ho...

This is a good way to approach Aikido. He has some great sound bites. A dual practice where there is forms and motion that encourage softness and strong shapes, and robust, all purpose techniques that work for most situations.

合気道は武道ではない？【塩田剛三内弟子・森道治先生】／Aikido is not a martial arts? ( one of Shioda Gozo's Uchideshi） #塩田将大　 #合気道　 ●Please subscribe .https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68CsNyASsyu0S6hPBedtBw?sub_confirmation=1●online salonhttps://community.camp-fire.jp/p...

I remember reading passage so long ago the source is gone. In it, the author suggested that one should take up a religion that would help balance a person's innate personality.

So you should be a Christian if you are inherently lethargic, because Christianity encourages actively doing good works. Or you should be a Taoist if you are too controling, because they think you should interfere in the world as little as possible. I remember the idea, not the specifics - don't hang me if you are Christian, (and I know the Toaists out there won't anyway).

Aikido, I think, does something like this. Folk who defer to others tend to get let others decide what will happen in life (walked over?). Bossy people tend to muscle through a situation - mentally or physically (usually at some cost to others and themselves). Aikido provide balance to both extremes.

One cannot use another's energy if you muscling them, physically, emotionally, or mentally. And being timid mean often missing out on good things when others make inconsiderate decisions. Aikido requires you take the initiative, and that you are relaxed and not fighting the partner's motion.

Aikido requires you tone down the muscle and turn up the initiative. That is not a bad thing in today's society, I think.

Congratulations to Emma for getting her Blue belt!! Whoop whoop

There is this magnificent thing about Aikido that is hard to capture in a sentence. I will try in a couple of paragraphs.

I was watching us train this evening, and there were men and woman all interacting - working on a purpose. In the technique we were doing there is wrist grabbing and pushing to get others on the ground, but both people in the pair are helping each other. They had a common goal.

People get to interact without all the posturing and fake small talk that comes with meeting someone for the first time. You train with someone and then train with someone else a little while later.

Its like being at a party and the host rushes over, grabs two people and exclaims quick, I need a couple of dish washers. Suddenly you both have a purpose, and the process of learning about the other person happens organically. And, if you like them, you keep talking. If you don't you don't, and noone is offended if you walk away. Dishwashing is a great way to meet people.

In this world of division, training brings people together, briefly, with a common goal. You learn how to talk to people you don't know, how to help others, and accept help.

And all this when you are supposed to be learning to fight. Aikido is truly a wonder.

Adult and student classes starting in 2021.

Kids classes start on Tuesday the 2nd of February.
Start time is 3.30pm, and it goes until 4.30pm.
Classes are on Tuesday and Thursday, (same time.)

Classes are in the mini-gym at Ashburton College. (entrance on Middle Road).

Adult classes start at 5pm and go through until 7pm (also Tues and Thurs).

I liked a quote the other day.
“That’s what I admire about Aikido- it challenges the human impetuous desire to beat the bits out of another human. It restrains this desire and puts us up against ourselves. In Aikido, the only enemy is in the mirror.
Aikido just IS. I don’t know if there’s a specific reason why it is here. I can say that it’s ideal for adults. And it’s ideal for adults who want to do martial arts because: they are over and done with violent atmospheres; they don’t need the heavy physical activity of a traditional martial arts class; Aikido gives the fulfillment of participating in Martial Arts without the things that take their toll on the body— kicking, punching or getting kicked or getting punched.”
Chris Lynn , Martial Arts Instructor

Hi All, at last we can start to move forward again as a community!! Hurrah! The adult Aikido classes will start on Tuesday the 19th, and the kids classes will start a week later, just to let everyone settle into the new/old routine.

😀😀😀Kids Class schedule for the Feb/March months 2020😀😀😀

Tues 18th Feb - Class as normal - see you at 3.30 at the small gym

Tues 25th Feb - No class :-( Ashburton College parent interviews all day

Tues 3rd Mar - Class as normal - see you at 3.30 at the small gym.

Tues 10th Mar - Class as normal

Tues 17 Mar - Class as normal

Tues 22 Mar - Class as normal

Tues 29 Mar - Class as normal

Hi All. Can you repost this to any Ashburton pages you belong to that will be appropriate - say Brough or Intermediate, or even in other Ashburton focused pages. It will really help to get the message out. Thanks. B