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Aikido Beginners Course 2025

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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 19th January at Barking Village Hall (just outside Needham Market). It’s perfect timing for anyone making New Year’s resolutions to come and try…

What Is Aikido and How Can It Benefit You?

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Aikido is a Japanese martial art that emphasizes harmony, self-defense, and personal growth. Unlike many other martial arts, Aikido doesn’t focus on striking or overpowering an opponent. Instead, it uses an attacker’s own energy against them through techniques like joint locks, throws, and pins. This makes Aikido accessible to people of all ages and fitness levels, as it relies more…

Why Aikido is Perfect for Older Individuals

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Aikido, with its gentle yet powerful movements, offers a journey of self-discovery and well-being for individuals of all ages. Among its many virtues, Aikido is a martial art unusually well suited for older practitioners. Aikido’s techniques emphasize fluidity and circular movements, making it a low-impact form of exercise, reducing the risk of injuries or strain. This makes it an excellent…

A Tale of Two Road Trips

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Last month, some of our members embarked on two memorable road trips to visit fellow Aikido clubs, each offering a unique take on this dynamic martial art. Our first stop was at a Yoshinkan-style dojo in Whepstead, where we were warmly welcomed by their instructor and students. Known for its emphasis on precise, powerful movements and structured training, Yoshinkan Aikido…

New Year, New Starts

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🥋 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…

Aikido Enhances Flexibility

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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…

Celebrating an Aikido anniversary

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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…

Embrace the Serenity of Summer

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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

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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

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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

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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…

Broadland Aikido Club: Seminar – Philip Smith Shihan

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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…

Inori Aikikai Seminar

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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

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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…

A busy year…

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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…

Seki Shoji Seminar

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Seminar with Seki Shoji Shihan. All students welcome. Please take bokken, Jo and proof of insurance. Contact Neil Mould: ndmould@yahoo.co.uk

New Aikido Classes in Norton, Bury St Edmunds

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Satomi Kai Aikido are excited to announce the opening of a new midweek classes on Thursdays at the Norton Village Hall. Currently, as well as local members, we have many people travelling from as far East of Stowmarket as Felixstowe. It’s hoped that having another venue West of Stowmarket will encourage many new people from that area to come and…

Aikido: Instructor Training

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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…

Aikido Legend to visit the UK

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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,…

Aikido beginners course

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Satomi Kai Aikido would like to extend a warm welcome to all the new students who joined our beginners course this month. We’ve had a good response to the course again, and our new starters seem a great bunch – enthusiastic, and quick learners. We look forward to seeing some of them branching out into our general classes in the…

A Celebration of Aikido

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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…

Aikido Beginners Course

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New people are always welcome to come along and join in at Satomi Kai, but once a year the club runs a special beginners course. One of these introductory courses will be starting on Sunday 24th January at the Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre in Stowmarket. It’s perfect timing for anyone making New Year’s resolutions to come and try something new….

Onami Dojo Visit

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Following the success of our This Girl Can session where we were the hosts, we started this month with an outing to be guests at someone else’s class. We’ve always encouraged cross-training at Satomi Kai, as an important part of every student’s development. Whether visiting other Aikido classes to experience another style or another teacher, or even visiting clubs who…

This Girl Can – Do Aikido

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You have likely already seen the TV adverts for ‘This Girl Can’ – a national campaign developed by Sport England and a wide range of partnership organisations. It’s a celebration of active women up and down the country who are doing their thing no matter how well they do it, how they look or even how red their face gets….

New Midweek Aikido Classes At MSLC

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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…

Aikido Seminar with Bill Harris (7th Dan)

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On Sunday March 3rd, Satomi Kai Aikido had the great pleasure of hosting a one-day seminar in Stowmarket with Sensei Bill Harris, and two of his assistant instructors.
Sensei Harris has been training in Aikido for over fourty years, attaining the rank of 7th dan, and is the Chief Instructor / Examiner of the Kai Shin Kai.

Aiki Peace Week

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This month, Satomi Kai Aikido held a special class as part of International Aiki Peace Week. Aiki is the core of Aikido, and means not going against the flow/movement the attack, but instead sidestepping the power of the attack, joining into its flow, then adding to it so as to unbalance them, and control their ability to attack. Aikido practitioners…

Movember 2013

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This month is special for a charity that has come to mean a lot to Satomi Kai Aikido. It is of course Movember… Last year, our facially-hirsute team raised over £800 for the cancer charity, and this time we are hoping to do even better. If anyone can spare some upper lip real-estate to grow a moustache with us, please…

New Aikido Coaching Qualifications

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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…

Aikido Gradings & Seminars

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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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