Piotr Stępniak

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I am really happy to promote such websites. I found it Today in an e-mail about next R users meeting – WZUR 4, which I plan to attend, link: http://smarterpoland.pl/

Poland through the eyes of data analysis expert, in a form easy for anyone. Kudos for the idea, I’ll be cheering further development of the website. Highly recommened!

Here’s I hope a nice way to find Chi Ryu affiliated club in Europe. In most cases I got the exact street address but if you see otherwise or spot an error please let me know.

View Chi Ryu Aiki-jitsu & Okinawa Kobudo Affiliated Clubs in a larger map

You’ll find the above map also at Chi-ryu.pl and the official Federation Geido-Tao-Chi-Kihon website.

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Barcelona, 16/06/2009

This weekend’s aikido seminar with sensei Pascal Guillemin has been a really satisfactory and fruitful practise. Though I was only able to attend Saturday’s trainings I enjoyed the event and teachings very much. Probably everybody took many different things out of both sensei Guillemin presentations and uke while trying the techniques on our own.

The main theme of Saturday was to shorten the move and thus be faster. Once we had established the technique construction and points we must go to in order for it to work we tried not to wait for uke in that points, but go for “finale” whether it was morote-dori tenchi-nage or ai-hanmi katate-dori nikkyo before uke reaches maximum of his movement. Very nice experience (at least for Tori ). For me it brought a different feeling in those techniques which I consider a step forward.

Second way to “save time” in technique we tried out was to go into the movement. “Accept” shomen uchi, (as an exercise of course), “go under it” with block, and finally go under and pass the attack to quickly go behind uke for irimi-nage ura. It was quite difficult and challenging for many reasons and it is certainly going to be address on trainings in dojo for more insight.

Aside those main themes of the training sensei paid attention to basic rules for aikido (and all budo!) practise. He pointed out correct distance in the attack. “Impact-relax” exercises although painful should open many eyes to where the efficiency of the attack comes from. We also trained “not to show our back to uke” no matter how far the tenkan goes – 180, 90, 45 degrees. A matter of controlling the uke.

Among all the teachings of the day my favourite was this: “We should not do things in aikido, that we wouldn’t do in other martial arts”. Do not attack in void or in absurd distance. Do not forget you have an opponent who wants to harm you all the way during technique. Do not accept whatever Tori does especially when it has flaws. Give him something to work with. And so on…

Of course there was more. Everything wrapped around in skillful methodical lessons with examples that let you instantly see and feel the idea behind the techniques. World class teacher at your door. Too bad sensei Pascal Guillemin comes to Poznań only once a year…

Just a note that the seminar as always brought to Poznań many high level practitioners not only from around Poland but also France, Czech and Germany. Being able to try your skills with and get advices from sensei Milleville and his students from Berlin or with sensei Guillemin students is absolutely priceless

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