We've changed the class times effective January 16th… The new times are below.

			Monday    18:30 - 20:30
			Tuesday   19:30 - 21:00
			Thursday  19:30 - 21:00

The last class for 2011 will be Thursday December 15th - we're back on Tuesday January 3rd, 2012.

John

Online payments for Ikeda Sensei's seminar are now on the seminar page - please click the link at the top of the page or the tag on the left.

Please note that the payments will be in the name of John Burn as we're still waiting on PayPal to verify our dojo account.

We have finally secured the mats and the venue for Ikeda sensei's first UK seminar (April 20-22, 2012).

The seminar will be held at Grace Academy, Wigston Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 2RH. Must give out a huge thanks to Phil Smith and Guy Needler from the UK Aikikai for allowing us to use their mats.

Chishin Dojo will be supporting the International Aiki Peace Week initiative this year by having open classes all week focusing on Internal Strength - no Dogi's, no Hakama's and no belts. Just 7.5 hours of Jin work.

We're asking every member to donate £1 extra per class in order to raise some funds for Aiki Extensions. Aiki Extensions is an international nonprofit organisation dedicated to the application of Aiki principles in situations outside the dojo.

Just wanted to say a huge thanks to War Lewis and his family for inviting me to teach my first seminar over the weekend. I was invited down to teach the basics of Internal Strength in Aikido based upon the groundpath and suit work from Mike Sigman.

We had a pretty good turn out and covered Mike's baseline parameters for IS. Everyone seemed to enjoy the workshop and hopefully came away with enough information to get their toe in the door so to speak.

The dojo I have to say is one of the most beautiful dojos I have ever had the pleasure to visit. I cant wait come back again. Any student who studies at Shinsei Dojo should be very proud indeed.

We've updated Ikeda sensei's seminar page with the latest updates regarding how long sensei will be teaching along with some details of the pre-seminar invite only class.

Grading update: We had a kyu grading tonight... well done Tim!

	6th kyu
	Tim

Grade Board updated...

We will be adding a page with Mike Sigman's baseline parameters for internal strength soon, the side tag has been added.

JQuery version updated for the image slider.

Grading update: All seven who graded yesterday passed - the standard was very good with Diogo being graded to 4th kyu from 6th kyu

	2nd kyu		4th kyu		6th kyu
	Seb		Diogo		Ty
	Pete				John
	Lee
	Mateusz	

Grade Board updated...

We've added a new section to the home page - a traditional grade board containing names and grades etc. We haven't added all names yet as we have a grading this weekend.

In case you've not noticed the new section on the website or noticed the new tag on the left then we have something rather important to announce… We are very proud to be able to announce that Hiroshi Ikeda sensei will be our guest in the UK for a seminar in April 2012. The venue is almost decided, we're waiting on confirmation which should be any week now. Please visit the seminar page above where the latest information will be posted as well as the pre-booking information.

John.

On Saturday June 18th, 7 members of the dojo travelled down to Andover for the Annual ADL course where Toni and Alwynn were due to grade. Suffice to say, they both successfully passed 2nd dan, huge congratulations to both, our dojo just got a little stronger and grew that little bit more and Tom, wherever you are, thanks for stopping by.

John.

Changed the navigation system and also uncluttered the images, removing the floating Kanji etc. Hopefully it's all 'cleaner' now.

After spending some time with Mike Sigman looking at the basics of internal strength skills all of the classes have been refocussed. There will be an element of Jin development on EVERY class with an extra focus on Tuesdays whilst also including Suit development. Wednesdays main focus will be grading work with Thursdays looking at Randori. As usual, Saturday classes are decided by the dojo members with regard to what they would specifically like to work on.

Tidied up some of the coding for the site, added a new background image and updated the jquery scripts for the slider and galleries. Replaced the image for the kanji translation so it's less heavy & also updated the calendar page with some new events.

Annual Course gallery from last years course has been added. Details for this years course have been added to the calendar page.

It's with a great deal of sadness that I've just heard Haydn Foster sensei from the Institute of Aikido passed away yesterday. My thoughts are with his family, friends and students. It was always a pleasure being taught by Mr. Foster, as well as being one of the original 5 UK dan grades, he was one of the good ones and will be greatly missed.

All of the Galleries are now online - more to follow.

Please Note: Classes resume in 2011 on Tuesday, January 4th.

Please Note: There will be no classes Thursday 19th August as John will be training with Ikeda sensei and our other teachers are on Holiday. The club will also be closed on Monday 30th August due to the Bank Holiday.

Added a new banner rotation system and tweaked some of the site images a little.

New Courses added the calendar page - please check regularly for updates.

There are no lessons over the Easter holiday period, next lesson is Tuesday, April 6th.

It's with a great deal of sadness that I've just heard Pat Narey sensei from the UK Aikikai passed away in the early hours this morning. My thoughts are with her family, friends and students. It was always a pleasure being taught by and training with Pat, she was one of the good ones and will be greatly missed.

New website layout finished, still a few more nips and tucks to make - mainly with the gallery pages which haven't been re-added yet.

Well done to the four students who passed the gradings on Thursday night. All did well.

		6th kyu			5th kyu
		Tom			Przemek
		Gabi
		John

Well done to the all who graded tonight. All did well.

		5th kyu			4th kyu
		Mateusz			Tom
		Seb

Certificates!

The photo above was taken in our club upon the presentation of dan grade certificates from Japan. The certificates are signed by Maruyama sensei who was a direct student of O Sensei, the founder of Aikido. Toni was given her shodan certificate and John his sandan after both of them tested for and successfully passed their grading.

Congratulations to Az and family on their new addition... We now have a mini smiling assassin in the club ;).

There's no easy way to say this but yesterday, Michael Wielobob who's been a member of our club since moving to the boys club very sadly took his own life. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and loved ones. Take care Mike, wherever you are.