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Upcoming Events

April 10(Sat), 11(Sun):         

Seminar of Bill Plank sensei at Capital Aikikai of Syracuse.

Check in at the dojo for car pooling and travel times.

Apr 17(Sat), 18(Sun):           

Rev Zenko Okimura sensei 7th dan, Cornell Aikido Spring SEMINAR at Cornell University.
Rev Zenko Okimura sensei is chief instructor of Aikido Delaware Aikikai

April 25(Sun): (TBA)   

Apr 18(Sun):   Date changed

Bob Poresky sensei's class at Rochester Phoenix Aikido Club

start 11 am

Jul 17(Sat), 18(Sun):      

First annual Capital Aikikai Federation Summer Camp.

Venue is Loudoun County, Virginia. Check http://www.potomacaikikai.org/cafseminar2010.htm for details.

Circular movement again

  In adult class, we improved circular movement with Kote-gaeshi and Irimi-nage techniques on Sunday. About 15 people attended, one newcomer joined training. Since we trained basic principles these days, hope everyone get their techniques and mind be refined. We will move on next step in next class.

  In youth class, we trained Ukemi drill. Step-by-step Ukemi exercise has been done in almost half of the class. Hope all kids enjoyed.

Aikido Demonstration at Martial Arts Spring Festival in Rochester

  We had Aikido Demonstration at 25th Martial Arts Spring Festival today. Vic and Taka demonstrated as 17th demonstrator of 20 groups. Vic demonstrated Yokomen-uchi and Kosa-dori techniques in Randori style, Taka did Tanto (against knife) and Suwari-waza (sitting) techniques.  Many of audience concentrated on our demonstration, I believe. Thanks to Mike for supporting and taking video. Pictures are uploaded to Gallery. Check it out!

Shoulder to shoulder

 We trained techniques against "Tsuki"(Punch) in Tom's class tonight. To get nice off centered position, we focused on shoulder to shoulder positioning. At the end of class, we enjoyed randori style training as usual.
  Ten people attended today's class. From last week, we have a new member joined our school. Size of our dojo is getting bigger. That's nice.

Circular movement

  We improved circular movement in technique using sword. Centering and circular movements were topic of in Sunday training. Hope everybody got it. See you next time.

Small changes to Tuesday and Friday night schedules

Here is small changes to Tuesday and Friday night schedules

Tuesday:
       6:00pm - 6:30pm  Weapons training
       6:30pm - 7pm       Internal Strength training
       7pm - 8pm           Aikido

Friday:
       5pm - 6pm           Aikido - randori
       6pm - 6:30pm      Internal Strength training

Class schedule is updated

Sunday training, Morote techniques

 We trained Morote grabbing techniques today. Spacing was key point of today's training. How much space you have relative to your partner is something what we need to think. At the end, we practiced 13 JO kata training all together. Jump-in Mae ukemi (forward roll) practice in warm up was also fun.

Monday Training

  Today's training was Tom's class. We did some techniques in Katate/Kosa grabbing based on concepts from Bob sensei's class yesterday. I enjoyed Randori training with 3-5 people. It was fun. In Randori training, Paula did great continuous Ukemis! See you next time.

Bob Poresky Sensei's class was fun

  We had Bob Poresky Sensei's class this morning. 20 people attended and everybody had fun time. Some people drove from Syracuse or Buffalo. Hope to see you all next time again.

See also Gallery!

Bob Poresky Sensei's class this coming Sunday, March 7th

Bob Poresky Sensei will be in Rochester Sunday March 7th. Class 11am to 1pm...ish

Join class on Sunday! You and your friends are welcome to come and train.

Open Practice on Friday (5:00 - 6:00)

Friday 5:00 - 6:00 pm is Open Practice of Aikido.We train Randori (Kakari geiko or Mawashi geiko) as group practice.

Enjoy!

Coffee after training

Sometimes we enjoy coffee at Starry Nites Cafe near from Dojo after training. I miss such a beautiful sunny days. Rochester is still cold! This pic was taken last spring.

Training at Syracuse

  Last Saturday was training with Bob Poresky sensei at Capital Aikikai of Syracuse. Everybody had fun time with Bob.

Welcome to our Blog!

   
Welcome!

Blog of Rochester Phoenix Fitness and Aikido Club is open. 

  Welcome to our blog. We will post day-by-day training in our Aikido Dojo. If you are interested in, just join us! Anybody is welcome to come to see. Dojo location is 3rd Floor, 34 Elton st., Rochester, NY.

• Dojo Website: Rochester Phoenix Aikido Club
• Introduction of our dojo is here
• Check our Training Schedule.