New Year, New Starts

🥋 Looking to kickstart your activity goals this New Year? 🎉 Our Aikido club is doing things a bit differently this January! ✨ Feedback tells us that starting together with other newcomers creates a supportive environment. No one’s the lone newbie; everyone’s taking their first steps together. However, we also believe joining our regular classes gives you an authentic taste…

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Aikido Enhances Flexibility

Aikido, often hailed as the “way of harmonious spirit,” is not just a martial art but a celebration of fluidity and grace. Beyond its self-defense applications and philosophical principles, Aikido offers a multitude of physical benefits, with flexibility being one of its greatest. At the core of Aikido lies a series of dynamic and circular movements, which cultivate a sense…

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Celebrating an Aikido anniversary

Time flies when immersed in our training. It feels like just yesterday when our Aikido club embarked on a new chapter, moving venue. Now, as we celebrate one year at our new home and Barking Village Hall, we take a moment to reflect on the progress, camaraderie, and transformation that have shaped our club’s journey.  We recall it was with…

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Embrace the Serenity of Summer

As the summer sun casts its warm glow, a serene atmosphere settles in the air, making it the perfect time to embark on a journey of self-discovery and physical well-being. Our Aikido club invites you to experience this dynamic Japanese martial art while the summer season offers an ideal opportunity to join our group. The summer months bring a gentle…

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Aikido Beginners Course 2023

New people are always welcome to come along and join in at Satomi Kai Aikido Club, but once a year the club runs a special beginners course. One of these introductory courses will be starting on Sunday 8th January at Barking Village Hall (just outside Needham Market).  It’s perfect timing for anyone making New Year’s resolutions to come and try…

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New Venue – new beginnings

This week we’ll be staring at our new venue at Barking Village Hall, just outside Needham Market. It’s an exciting moment, and we’re all looking forward to a new era of training. Here’s shot of our new space. We’ll be sure to post some new photos soon of how things look with us in here.

2020 Beginners Course

New people are always welcome to come along and join in at Satomi Kai Aikido Club, but once a year the club runs a special beginners course. One of these introductory courses will be starting on Sunday 26th January at Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre in Stowmarket.  It’s perfect timing for anyone making New Year’s resolutions to come and try something…

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Broadland Aikido Club: Seminar – Philip Smith Shihan

Broadland Aikido Club are proud to present a weekend of Aikido and Iaido conducted by Philip Smith Shihan on 9th & 10th November. We hope you are able to attend and support this rare event of a weekend of Aikido with Iaido. A weekend of Aikido and Iaido With Philip Smith Shihan 7th Dan Aikido, 3rd Dan Iaido United Kingdom…

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Inori Aikikai Seminar

Seminar weekend in East Anglia with Peter Brown Shihan, 6 Dan Aikikai. Members of all organisations and styles welcome. Bring jo and bokken. Whole course: £10 Woolpit Village Hall Mill Lane, IP30 9QX Bury St. Edmunds October 5th. 11 am to 3:30pm

Cambridge Aiki Dojo Seminar – Terry Ezra Shihan

Cambridge Aiki Dojo is very much looking forward to Terry Ezra Shihan (7th Dan, Aikikai) visiting again. Times: Saturday, 21 September: 14:00 – 17:00 , Sunday, 22 September: 10:00 to 13:00 Location: University Sports Centre (Philippa Fawcett Dr, CB3 0AS) Cost: One session GBP 15.00, two sessions GBP 25.00. Concessions available, please ask Saturday evening a meal out is planned…

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A busy year…

It’s been a very focussed year for our members this past year, all training very hard to improve and develop across the board. In addition to giving it their all in class, students have been attending Aikido seminars with many world-renowned teachers, both in this country and by travelling abroad. The hard work has been paying off all year, and…

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Aikido: Instructor Training

It must have caught me when the zanshin was low. Sensei Sion emailed me with news of a British Aikido Board instructors course, BAB approved, at Woodford Green. It’s a place I know well so, ‘Yes’ I thought, might be fun, useful even. The course was a 2 day session split between the Classroom, (day 1) and the Dojo, (day…

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Aikido Legend to visit the UK

Following young Alec’s  trip to Europe to train with world-renowned Aikido teacher Christian Tissier, soon the rest of the club will have the opportunity to share the experience as he comes to the UK to teach a special seminar. On Sunday the 19th of March, Brighton Aikikai will be hosting him for a course at the Medway Park Judo Centre,…

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A Celebration of Aikido

Every year in early January, our governing body, the Kai Shin Kai gives everyone an opportunity do dust off the Christmas cobwebs and burn some of the one-too-many chocolates by starting the year with a national aikido seminar. In that regard, this January has been no different, and a number of Satomi Kai’s students headed off for a fantastic day’s…

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New Midweek Aikido Classes At MSLC

Satomi Kai Aikido has opened new midweek classes at the Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre in Stowmarket. Satomi Kai have long standing ties with the centre, as the club has run martial arts classes there for almost 30 years. Both the Sunday and Thursday classes will run in Studio 1 – a large, fully air-conditioned fitness studio, making full use of…

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New Aikido Coaching Qualifications

This month two of our instructors, Sion Oxford and Adrian Munteanu, stepped their teaching up a gear with a British Aikido Board Advance coaching course. Known as the CL2 course, it consists of several distinct and lengthy sessions. It was a marathon, cramming it all into one month, but we hope the results will be clear to see in the…

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Aikido Gradings & Seminars

Its been a busy time at Satomi Kai Aikido, as much of this month has been spent on grading exams. Almost all the club members took exams this time around, across a whole range of levels. For some members it was their first time grading, while others have been working towards some of the more senior grades for very long…

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Kai Shin Kai Seminar

This month, students from Satomi Kai Aikido in Stowmarket took a trip to Oxfordshire for a national seminar at our organisations headquarters in Aylsbury Teaching on the day was shared by Roy Chandler and Ian Morgan, both senior instructors in the Kai Shin Kai.

Thursday Aikido Classes now open

We are happy to announce that after much work, we now have a Thursday night Aikido class at the Cedars Park Community Centre in Stowmarket. The class is taught by Sensei Adrian Munteanu, of the Aikikai. Classes run from 8.00 – 9.30pm and are open to beginners and experienced students alike. The classes were officially opened on Thursday 11th of…

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Tameshigiri Seminar

On Sunday May 26th, students from Satomi Kai had another opportunity to take part in a Tameshigiri seminar. Tameshigiri is the Japanese sword art of cutting rolled mats with a single strike. Sword work is an integral part of Aikido, but most training is done with a wooden practice sword (bokken). It was a great experience for all those involved to…

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Community Centre Open day

Today Members attended the opening weekend of Cedars Park Community centre. A huge thank you to those people that turned out. Especially thank you to those who took part in the several demonstrations during the day. It had been rather a last minute decision to do a demo, rather than just having a presence. Hope everyone had a good time….

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