Workshop programme - 5pm Monday October 1st
We are pleased to announce a series of half hour workshops run by Aikido Yuishinkai instructors from around the country. These workshops are intended to provide supplemental areas of intrest to instructors and any others interested in expanding the their knowledge on and off the mat. If well supported its is hoped that this will lead to workshops in coming years and develop a collegiate 'aikido without boundaries' approach to our training.
Systema Rolling
Andrew Sunter Sensei, Aikido Yuishinkai Sydney
Andrew Sensei will teach his interpretation of the rolling method used by the Systema Russian Martial School to instruct people in a fear free way to learn to roll. A bad rolling experience is the number one reason why people that try aikido don't come back. The Systema method using a breathing and stretching method to develop body awareness and a sense of connectedness with the mat, this developes into basic forward ukemi and has been praised by many an aikido neophyte as finally conquering their fear of the mat.
Soft breakfalls ukemi
Peter Kelly Sensei, Aikido Yuishinkai Hobart
Peter sensei introduces a soft breakfall ukemi method.
Breakfalls form an important of any aikido syllabus. Kotai style break-falling as taught in our school teaches students to synchronise body hands and legs striking the mat and is an important tool to reduce the risk of injury in our everyday practice. Peter introduces juntai level breakfall ukemi where the hand leads the body segments thus distributing the force over time so as to create a softer fall, reducing the impact force on the body
Aikikids
Jim Nicholls Sensei, Byron Bay Aikido Yuishinkai
Byron Bay has run an established and very successful childrens aikido program for many years, pioneered by Williams sensei. Jim Sensei will introduce their programme and how it runs. he will cover basic elements such as class content, helpers, child safety and working with parents
Growing your dojo
Daniel James Sensei, Griffith Aikido Yuishinkai
It is popularly estimated that only 1 in 100, or a 1000 students will get a black belt. Danny deconstructs typical dojo statistics and draws upon a number of how to run a martial arts schools type books such as these and outlines remedial actions for creating sustainable growing dojos, without selling out. Basic concepts such as 'the funnel', developing 'critical mass' and the 'dojo pyramid' will be introduced to aid in reflection. It is hoped that mundane activities such as advertising, recruitment and retention techniques will be shared by participants.
If your interested in contributing a workshop to the programme then please contact us...