Takagashira Dojo

15/03/2019

Hello all, we’re having some website issues that we’re working on. Sorry if the site isn’t available just now.

18/09/2018

03/09/2018

Today is the tenth birthday of the Takagashira dojo!

18/07/2018

Now here's an amusing thing. I opened this dojo on 3rd September 2008 in the Lake District, on the 10th birthday of this dojo I will - by total coincidence - open the Renshinkan dojo in London.
I'd like to say I planned it that way but I didn't.

15/06/2018

Well, the seminar week is over, everyone has left to head back home. Thanks to everyone who came and made it so memorable.
Thanks to Maruyama sensei for once again sharing the things he learned from O Sensei, and thanks to Peter Kelly from Australia, and Martijn van Hemmen from Holland for helping to explain things to us all.
Can't wait to see you all again at the next seminar!

14/06/2018

For those hoping to train with Peter Kelly sensei tonight unfortunately he'll not be available. I will be taking the session instead.

02/03/2018

Some good news. You can now book and pay for accommodation in the dojo for the seminar in June, just go to this link http://events.kendaljudoclub.co.uk/events/maruyama-2018/

Please note that the early registration period for the seminar has now ended.

To Book your Accommodation at the Dojo Its very simple just pick your first night you want to stay and tell us how many nights then pay on our PayPal system All accommodation is Bed and Breakfast in single s*x dormitory style rooms onsite We will supply food during the seminar at a very reasonable ....

20/02/2018

Only a week to go to get he early registration discount for Maruyama Sensei’s seminar in June. Book now to save some money!

https://www.takagashiradojo.co.uk/maruyama-2018-seminar/

For those wanting to book accommodation in the dojo, booking will be available for that very soon. Watch this space.

An aikido dojo in the Cumbrian town of Kendal

12/02/2018

How will you be celebrating pancake day tomorrow?

21/01/2018

Some good news. In order to help people get their places sorted for Mauryama Sensei's seminar, we're extending the early registration deadline until the end of February. Book now to get your place.
Also a small note, some people have seen the order numbers and thought places must be running out, please pay no attention to that as it's just the automated number assigned by the online shop that didn't get reset after last year's seminar.

An aikido dojo in the Cumbrian town of Kendal

08/12/2017

Tonight in the dojo I described how it felt the first time I took ukemi for Maruyama Sensei, as it happens it's on a seminar video on YouTube, so we watched it. Watching it after all these years I suddenly realised that not only did I now somehow know what Sensei had done but that I knew I could do it too, so we practised it and sure enough the student taking ukemi from me described how it felt and his description matched mine of how it felt to receive the technique from Maruyama Sensei.

It just goes to show the value of good regular practise, I don't remember ever having been precisely taught what Sensei was doing but somehow that knowledge had found its way to me through training and taking ukemi from Sensei, and other senior Aikido Yuishinkai instructors over the course of the last decade.