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Neil Saunders Session

Phil — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:25:25 +0000

This Saturday Neil Saunders Sensei took the class for the afternoon at Genryukan dojo.

Training covered;
Kamae
Nikkajo
Sankajo
Shomen uchi ikkajo osae ichi
kotegaeshi
shihonage
iriminage

We had a good turnout, and a thoroughly enjoyable session was had by all. I think Jon especially enjoyed himself

Photos from the session can be seen in the gallery.

Our thanks go to Neil Saunders, Dave Clarke, Mark Atkinson, Rob Cole and Jimmy Tan for coming down for the day. We’ll see you all soon at the Mustard Sensei seminar.

Grading July 2010

Christophe — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:37:18 +0000

An interclub ZETAR grading was held at the Genryukan dojo on 26th July 2010.

The panel was composed of Jim Dempster and Lis Jepsen from Gowaryu Aikido, Paul Smith from Mushin no Shin aikido, Phil Eyers and Christophe Courtin from Genryukan Aikido. The grading was supervised by Tom Davey and Eoin Kerrigan.

A big well done to all of those who passed, and thank you to Jim, Lis and Paul for joining us on this occasion.

The results are as below:

3rd Kyu (blue belt):

Martin Morris

6th Kyu (orange and stripe)

Simon Russel

7th Kyu (orange belt)

James Spencer
Ian Crumbie
Gabriel Kobol

8th Kyu (yellow belt)

Mark Ball
Lee Whitehall
Antonio Lambranca

Here are some pictures taken during the event:

28th June session – anniversary session

Christophe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:10:27 +0000

Quick warmup followed by
Ukemi practice
Tandoku Undo; Unsoku & Tegatana Dosa

Gohon-no-kuzushi for white and yellow belts

Randori-no-kata & kaeshi-kata for green belts

It was also our first anniversary session, so cake was on the menu.
Again, a big thank you to all the people (students and instructors) who have been supporting us so far.

Happy Birthday Genryukan!

Genryukan Aikido Dojo

Genryukan Instructors

New yellow belt

Christophe — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:09:38 +0000

Congratulations to Nikcsi Kobol who earned her yellow belt last night.

Well done Nikcsi!

First training session at our new venue

Christophe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:25:12 +0000

Genryukan Aikido has started training at the new venue at the Clarendon & Westbury Community Centre.

It has been very successful with an excellent turnout, about 20 people, thanks to the support of Gowaryu, Mushin-no-shin and Katsujinken dojos. Their presence was very appreciated.

The session was mainly geared toward freeplay so we could test-drive those mats properly, and simply to have a bit of fun!

We would like to thanks the Dover Bushido Judo club for letting us use their mats.

Here are some pictures taken during the session: