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We've moved!
Milton Keynes Keihatsu
Aikido Club has now moved from its premises in Stony Stratford to Stantonbury
Leisure Centre! After five years in a warehouse building in Stony
Stratford, the Club is now offering adult mixed-grade classes on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights
at Stantonbury Leisure Centre.
Chief Instructor Marianne Crisp, 2nd Dan, said that
the facilities at Stantonbury Leisure Centre provide a great learning
environment, are simple to find and have plenty of parking.
All the Instructors at Keihatsu Aikido Club - five 2nd Dan Black Belts,
two 1st Dans, and one 1st Kyu Brown Belt - are registered with the
British Aikido Board through the respected Yama Arashi UK Association,
all are First-Aid qualified, and in addition, all the Instructors who
take the Children's Classes are CRB-checked.
Mixed ability grading success!
On Sunday 12 March 2006,
six Black Belt Instructors from Milton Keynes Keihatsu Aikido Club,
accompanied several of their students to the Quarterly Gradings held at
the Yama Arashi (UK) Association's headquarters at the Phoenix Aikido &
Fitness Club in Coventry, where they were to join students from the
Stratford (Warwickshire) Club and those from the Phoenix Club itself.
Some 15 students were entered, for all levels except for the first belt
(Red to White, which were held on Thursday 9th March) and Black Belt
(held only once annually, in September).
The Milton Keynes Club had candidates attempting White belt to Yellow,
and Green belt to Blue, and each grading increases in both difficulty
and duration. Candidates are required to demonstrate all the techniques
appropriate to the grade being attempted, plus a random selection of
techniques from previous gradings, one or more Kata (pre-set sequences
of attack and response), defences against wooden weapons, the Jo
(stave), the Tanto (knife), and at higher grades, the Bokken (sword).
They also demonstrate several techniques of their own choosing, and
there is a "free-fight" section called "Keiko," where an attacker (or
two, at higher grades) attack at full-speed with any type of attack they
like.
Coloured belts - Kyu grades - advance numerically downwards from Red
(7th Kyu) through Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, and Brown (1st Kyu).
Black Belt grades, called Dan grades, go upwards, starting at 1st Dan,
at which point the candidate is also entitled to wear the Hakama, the
baggy black overtrousers.
The standard of candidates from all three clubs was, as usual, extremely
high, and although not all the candidates achieved their grades this
time, and will be eligible to try again in July, the Milton Keynes Club
is happy to report success for Eddie, who achieved his Yellow belt, and
Matt, who was awarded his Blue belt.
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