Congratulations to Zibi and Khalil for passing their shodan and shoden examinations respectively today.

Sensei Burgess will be conducting examinations up to and including 2nd Dan at a seminar on 24th November at the Burton Ki Society Dojo. Applications for the examination should be submitted to Sensei Burgess at least two weeks before the date.

Sensei will also be teaching the updates to Bokken Dori  (23rd Tszukiwaza Waza)

The address of the dojo is:

Burton Judokwai
140 Broadway St
Burton upon Trent, 
Staffordshire DE14 3NB

13:00 – 17:00 General Class

The class will cost £20.00

any other queries could you contact Mike Hayes at burton@knk.org.uk

Last weekend, Doshu Yoshigasaki was in Burton, giving his last seminar of the year in the UK. Several members of the club attended and we all had a good weekend.

Congratulations to Marion Jost on her successful Joden examination.

We have the dates for next years seminar.

• 21st-23rd June 2019 Burton
• 13th-15ht September 2019 Scotland
• 1st-3rd November 2019 Burton

Doshu Yoshigasaki will be in Burton-on-Trent early November.

More details can be found on the British Ki Society website.

This is the schedule, until Christmas, for our practise at the Deli Studios. Note that we practise on a Monday on the 22nd October and start at 5:30pm on other nights.

Next year, we’ll be back to our usual 6pm-8pm slot.

The children’s class will be restarting this Sunday, 16th September at 5:30pm-7:00pm.

There will be no children’s class on the 1st July as I’ll be away at the summer seminar with Doshi Yoshigasaki in Burton.

The adult classes on Tuesday and Thursday will carry on as normal.

Doshu Yoshigasaki will be teaching again in Scotland this year between the 7th and 9th September. This will be the 30th year that Doshu has been teaching in Scotland. Instructors from the London Ki Aikido club will be attending the course this year.

Details of that seminar can be found on the British Ki Society website.

The Alness dojo was opening of the dojo in 1987 by Mr Ken Williams.  Here is a video of the seminar that accompanied that event.

The Children’s class, which usually runs on Sunday evening between 5:30-7:00 will be having a break for the next two weeks.

There will be no class on

• Sunday 27th May 2018
• Sunday 3rd June 2018

We will resume practise again on Sunday 10th June.

Here is an excerpt from Tohei Sensei’s Book of Ki where he relays his first encounter with Ueshiba Morihei

‘The students attacked him and were easily thrown. It looked fake. Then Master Ueshiba turned to me and said, “Take off your jacket and attack me.” I tried to grab him, but the next thing I knew, I was lying on the mats. I could not figure out how I had been thrown. I had not felt force applied to any part of my body. Had he done so, I would have able to think of a defence, but I had felt no force at all.’