Victoria Aikido Centre

10/06/2024

🌟 Exciting News, Aikido Family! 🌟

We’re thrilled to announce that the Victoria Aikido Centre has a brand-new home on Facebook: Victoria Aikikai! 🎉

To keep receiving all the latest updates, events, and community news, we’d love for you to LIKE and FOLLOW our new page. Your support means the world to us, and we can’t wait to continue our journey together!

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Thank you for being a part of our community, and we’ll see you on the new page! 🥋❤️

We are a registered non-profit Society dedicated to offering high quality Aikido training

08/04/2024

BCAF’s Shochugeiko aka Summer Intensive seminar is hosted by Shawnigan Lake Aikikai. With the theme of Diversity, the senseis (guest instructors) are the Up-&-comers ranging from almost shodan (1D) to rokkkudan (6D). Students attending represent almost every rank ( no 2K). It is a fresh joyful practice in a classy venue, Shawnigan Lake School, English style private school: air conditioned dojo, sumptuous dining hall! Having a great time.

07/19/2024

Congratulations!👏 to Ed Wass who received his SanDan recognition from Hombu.
Ed has been with Victoria Aikikai for decades and was a devout and personal student of Kawahara-Sensei in aikido but also in ChiGong. Humble and steady but ‘tough as nails’, Ed is a true role model of the Aikido gentle warrior. The pictures show the creakiness of aging does not seem to diminish his joy.
Well done, Ed Wass.

Class by Scott Macphail-Shihan covered a range of techniques, attacks and entries, including Morote-tori Ikkyo, Ryote-tori kotegaeshi [variation] — most my mages, & ryote-tori Shihonage.

06/12/2024

Scott Macphail Sensei enters…

05/30/2024

victoria aikido centre is back at Selkirk waterfront Festival

04/19/2024

C’mon by!

Hello Aikidoists!

Please mark the Selkirk Festival on your calendars: Saturday May 25. Even if you would rather not do some aikido, please drop by, lend your support, maybe share with other festival-goers the benefits of our martial art.

01/18/2024

Our dojo is proud of the consistent and earnest training of Victoria Aikikai members promoted this year! 🎉👏
Scott Macphail-Shihan, our chief instructor
John Peterson, Shawnigan Lake Aikikai
Tony Leong
Perry Plewes, UVic Aikido
Ed Wass

And congrats to those former VAC members, Liz, Bruce & Ben
and the others on this list, friends and fellow aikidoka

Bravo to all ❗️

11/19/2023

Chio Woon-Sensei Memorial Class at Victoria Aikikai on Saturday November 18, 2023. Chio-Sensei, 4D, passed away ~2 weeks ago on Nov. 5. The dojo sends condolences to the family. See more at:
https://www.bcaikidofederation.ca/news/post/chio-woon-victoria-aikikai-eulogy
At the dojo today our Sensei, Scott Macphail-Shihan invited those students to share essential techniques, or simply treasured memories of Chio-Sensei: Scott Macphail-S, Bob Moline-S, Hilary Dawson-S, John Peterson-S, Tony Leong-S, Penny Ross, Barb Wolfe, Adrian Taylor-S, Ed Wass, Michael Richardson.
It was delightful to have a full dojo with 20 people practicing, and 6 of them, 1/4 of the dojo, women!