The dojo will put on an aikido and iaido showcase at CFCC’s Harvest Health, Wellness & Safety Fair on Wed, Oct 19, from 10am-1pm. Admission to the fair is free, and there will be several vendors there so it should be fun! See you there!
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Date: Oct 19, 2011
Time: Demo time 10am-1pm, Fair will be open from 9am- 1pm
Location: Cape Fear Community College Schwartz Center, 610 N. Front St., Wilmington, NC, 28401
Senseis Keith and Deborah McDuffie has announced that they will donate 100% of any new student’s monthly fee to the Japan Red Cross in aid of the tsunami victims for the month of April. If you were thinking of trying out aikido or iaido, now’s a good time as any!
The dojo will host an Open House showcasing iaido and aikido displays on Saturday April 2, 1-3.30pm. Displays include (but not limited to) live blade cutting of bamboo mats, randori with drumming accompaniment, iaido kata and aikido demos. We welcome audience participation at the end of the program. Please see the ‘About’ page for dojo address and directions. This event is FREE and open to all.
It was interesting indeed to conduct a demonstration in front of a bunch of costumed superheroes and characters, and then to have them try out some of the aikido techniques. It was fun though.
We’ll be at Aniwave this Saturday from 10.30am-12.30pm conducting a demo at the downtown Convention Center. We’ll have audience participation in the last half hour to 45min, so do swing by. Entrance to Aniwave is $7 at the door, and there are lots of cool stuff happening too, including cosplay contests, tea ceremony demos, and anime screenings. See you there!
The dojo will have a booth at the Cape Fear Community College Harvest Health, Wellness & Safety Fair, Oct 20th, at the Schwartz Center downtown. The fair will take place from 10am-2pm, and lots of vendors will be there! We will have periodic demonstrations of aikido and iaido, and will be happy to talk to anyone and answer your questions. The event is free and open to all.
Just put together this video of cutting practice. Enjoy!
Sensei Keith found some big bamboo stems and we had some fun practicing our cutting on them. Videos coming soon.
Once again, members of the Garden Spring Wind Dojo will be at the Student Recreation Center at UNCW on Friday, April 16th to demonstrate aikido techniques for participants in wheelchairs. If you’ve never been, it’s a very hands-on, engaging and interesting time, so come on down! Lots of accessible activities on hand for individuals with various disabilities, including hand-cycling, rockwall climbing, African dance, basketball and lots more. Aikido will run from 1.45-2.30pm.
Well, maybe not so defenseless. A retiree in UK has developed self-defense classes for the elderly, and in one case, using the walking stick as a defense tool. Kevin Garwood, 61, runs 3 2-hr classes each week for the princely sum of £3 per class. Some nice moves in the video linked below.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7408503/Walking-stick-self-defence-a-demonstration.html
