Shohei Juku Aikido Canada - Surrey Dojo

10/17/2025

Our head teacher in Japan for Shoheijuku at 34 years old.

11/02/2024

“…the old way the masters taught was to demonstrate the techniques rather than to explain them. It was the duty of the student to ‘learn’ from the master. Hiroshi Kato Sensei has told us in the past, “I was not taught by the Founder (of Aikido), I learned from him”. Kato Sensei always understood that it was his job to study carefully what the Founder was doing and to imitate it and incorporate his own understanding of what he saw into his aikido. Speaking in general terms, in our western mindset, we believe that good students come from good teachers.
The eastern mindset is that good students come from dedication and the careful observation of the teacher. The worthy student shows himself to be so by virtue of his dedication to learning the art. The responsibility is on the learner. That being the case then, in the old culture of budo, it was the dedication, intensity, focus and hunger that allowed some of the learners to become the best students…”

Excerpt fr “The Traditional Learning Method of Aikido” posted by JGarcia, 2011
Shudokan School of Aikido

09/25/2022

2022 Shoheijuku Canada Godo Geiko at Surrey dojo. Thank you Russ Sensei to join us from Gibsons dojo and members from Trout Lake dojo. As usual Tama Sensei made us sweat and laugh.

06/10/2022

Suganuma sensei demonstration 2022

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09/30/2021