Shobu Aikido Houston

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04/16/2024

07/20/2020

Mitsugi Saotome Shihan is one of the oldest living students of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba Sensei, commonly known as O-Sensei. Saotome Sensei studied Aikido under O-Sensei as a personal uchi-deshi (as opposed to the more general Hombu uchi-deshi), or personal live-in student, for ten year...

12/14/2019

02/11/2019

Children's Aikido Classes in February

The Shobu Aikido Houston dojo is holding monthly Aikido classes for children 6-12 years old. February classes will be held February 6, 13, 20, and 27 from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm.

Our classes will focus on self defense techniques and character growth to improve skills in working with any kind of aggression. In Aikido we say Masakatsu Agatsu Katsuhayabi which means "True victory is self victory." Each week we will focus on virtues that are important to Aikido, such as humility, respect and compassion.

The instructors are Karen Vargas, San Dan, and Brian Stephenson, Sho Dan.

Classes will cost $100 per month. The fee may be paid by cash or check.

For more information about our school, please see the Shobu Aikido Houston website.

http://www.shobuaikidohouston.com/

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07/03/2018

Here's a few class Pictures

03/26/2018

Dear Fellow black belts..Sensei would like any thoughts and suggestions on last Saturday's Black Belt class. She welcomes any and all comments on what we can learn and share on future classes thanks....

03/15/2018

As human beings, we have finite limits to the number of years we can train. This article is part 1 of insights from Shihan Mitsugi Saotome, on how to tap into an understanding of human evolution and instinctual response to overcome the limits of incremental training.

01/16/2018

Shobu Aikido will be closed today due to the weather and icy roads...stay safe and warm..Sensei is keeping an eye out on the weather for Wednesday...also if H.I.S.D schools are closed Shobu will be closed also..Thanks

01/08/2018

Forward Roll Into 2018! It's time get back on the mat!
Hope everyone had a great holiday. The dojo doors are open and it's time to train. -