Please come and join us to celebrate our new expanded facilities. We will have interactive sessions for brand new students, live demonstrations and films of masters from China and Japan.
We are also offering a free month of classes for those who participate. Please view our flyer for dates and times!
Please come find us and “friend” us on facebook. We have a new facebook page and would like to hear from you!. Please come interact with us, comment on our videos, say hello and tell us about yourself.
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Kuma Kai dojo in Sebastopol, CA will be hosting a seminar with Bob Nadeau Shihan on Sunday, April 30, 2011 from 10:30 to 4:30. Admission is $70.00
From the Kuma Kai Website:
Nadeau Sensei studied directly with O’Sensei. This is a great opportunity to study with a master teacher who has studied with the master himself!
For more information, please go to the Kuma Kai Website or contact Denise Barry at 707-829-9550
Normally we have weapons training on the last Saturday of each month, but to prepare for the Nadeau seminar we postponed January’s weapons training till Feb 5th. And what a beautiful day it was for our first outdoor training of the year. The sun was out and the temperature was perfect.
We practiced the first four Sho, Chiku, Bai movements and will be going over them and getting to the rest of them at the next weapons training.
John Stevens will be at a San Francisco art exhibit at Fort Mason the weekend of Feb 5th. Bob had mentioned that if you are interested in going Bob may be able to get complementary tickets.
Here is Bill Misson, our oldest Aikido student and Sensei’s second oldest student (Sensei has a t’ai chi student in his 90s). Bill is shown here doing some jiwa waza with Sasun Torikian.
One of the students at our Aikido school had a milestone birthday he celebrated with us on Saturday, January 15th. He turned 80 years old.
Sensei gave bill the mat and he taught the class as a way of honoring the day. To say that it is admirable to see someone at Bill’s age rolling around and throwing people with such ease is a gross understatement.
It is a beautiful and wondrous thing to be able to train with someone with Bill’s experience.
Happy birthday, Bill! You certainly deserve it.
1st and 5th kyu tests will be held this Saturday, 12-18-2010. A short class will begin at 11:30am and testing will begin around 12:00pm. Please come and support the testing candidates.
4th Kyu tests from Reigendo Martial Arts Academy, Klamath Falls, Oregon, October 2010.
5th Kyu tests from Reigendo Martial Arts Academy, Klamath Falls, Oregon, October 2010.