School holiday Schedule

Dear parents,

Please note that over the two weeks of school holidays, there will be no class on Tuesdays. Thursday and Saturday classes will run as normal through the holidays. Tuesday classes recommence first week back to school.

osu!

Melbourne Yoshinkan Aikido

Saturday's Belt Presentation

Geordie

Dylan

Jay

Mickey

Neeve

Otis

Tully

Zae

Grading 6th of September 2008 Results

The following students have been promoted to:

8th Kyu – Red Belt

Evie Durbridge - Distinction
Neeve McEwen - Distinction
Amelia Newman - Distinction
Mickael Robinson - Distinction
Otis Kerley
Jay Harrison-Curtis

7th Kyu – Half Step

Dylan Smith

7th Kyu – Yellow Belt

Geordie Kidd - Distinction
Tully McEwen - Distinction

5th Kyu – Blue Belt

Christs Neocli - Distinction

4th Kyu – Green Belt

Zae Gwynne - Distinction

ukemi shots - Tumbles

ukemi shots - sidefalls

ukemi shots - Backfall

If Bunny hopping was an Olympic sport..Meet the next gold medalist!

Well done Jas!

Super Zanshin Time!

Kamae!

Kamae Hamster :-p

More video - Grading clip

video time!

Some fantastic video from Christos' and Zae's test.....very nice!

September Grading shots!

Omedeto gozaimasu (congratulations) to all who tested!

Test shots: Christos and Zae

Super effort Christos and Zae. Omedeto gozaimasu! (congratulations!)

More training fun!

Still need to do a lot of work on learning how to pack the parachute
away.

Little Ethan shows the benefits of being small

Christos makes a great dive for safety.

Sensei's new parachute gets an airing.

Jasmine gets ready to nail a fearsome power-punch from Zae!

Intense practice for the test next week!

Neeve pins Jaye onto the mats in training

Otis and Mikey have been quick to pick up their first technique.

New student Pippa overpowers Sensei in her second class!

Dylan practicing his grappling holds with Christos

Getting ready for training in seiza

Otis and Jay try out new head gear for Aikido

Look at that fantastic seiza!

Test practice is a time to dig our heels into the mat and focus and concentrate on improving our Aikido techniques. Gambate (Good luck!) to all students training for their next test :-)