Shodokan Aikido @ University of Sheffield

Well done everybody for making this such a good year for the club, particularly to Joe for being such a great captain, and to everyone who competed in the Student Nationals for bringing every single gold to back to Sheffield. Thank you to everyone who’s been on the committee this year, and helped to make this such a successful year, and I’m pleased to announce the committee for 2013/2014:

Captain: Jonathon Higgott

Secretary: Alistair John

Treasurer: Clement Moreau

Equipment/Safety Officer: Patrick Stowell

Website Officer: Ed Duesbury

Social Secretary: Joe Price

Inclusions and Promotions Officer: Resha Ng Tsing Yu

In the mean time, keep training, and lets try to make next year as successful as this one

As Sheffield University are now on Easter break the student sessions at 5-6.30 on Tuesdays and Fridays will not be running for the next 3 weeks. All other sessions will be running as normal, but as it is not term time you will need to pay the dojo to train. You can either pay £5 or a session, or if you’re planning on being around most of Easter you can pay £15 to come to any session over the next 3 weeks.

Also congratulations to everybody who competed at the Student Nationals in York this weekend, and proving that Sheffield are the best Aikido club around. Well done everyone, you all should be really proud of yourselves.

Happy Easter

Starting from this Monday (4th February) the student timetable will resume, however anyone interested in attending Monday or Thursday sessions should note that these will now run from 6.00 – 7.30, NOT 5.00 – 6.30 as they did last semester. All other sessions will run at their normal times.

If any non-students are interesting in joining Aikido then have a look at this website. http://sheffieldaikido.org.uk/. Your first session is free! After this, you can pay £20 for a beginner’s package, which includes four sessions and a free training outfit/dogi!

Welcome to all new members of the club, and welcome back to all existing members. Just to let you all know that this year to join the club, you now have to fill in membership online. To do so, follow this link http://www.goodwinonline.co.uk/, then login or create an account, then click the link for “join a sports club”, then select the £15 aikido joining free (ignore the £70 training fee option).

At The Harvey Hadden sports complex, Nottingham

For further information and updates, please check your e-mails on a frequent basis!

Competitors:

Timetable of Events:

Saturday 10th March

10:00-10:30         Registration

10.30                     Introduction and Taiso (warmup)

10:45                     Embu Competition

• Nage no kata Omote (7)               beginner to 4th Kyu        to final pairs
• Randori no kata (17)                       3rd Kyu & 2nd Kyu           to final pairs
• Tanto Randori no kata                    1st kyu/1st Dan to final pairs
• Kaeshi waza                                       1st kyu/1st Dan to final pairs
• Goshin no kata                                  1st kyu/1st Dan to final pairs

12:30                     Shodan grading

13.00                     Men’s Individual Tanto Shiai preliminary rounds up to quarter finals

Women’s Individual Tanto Shiai preliminary rounds up to quarter finals

15.00                     Break

15.30                                Men’s and women’s individual Tanto Shiai quarter finals to semi finals

16.30                     Close

Sunday 11th March

10:00                     Taiso

10:15                     Embu Competition Finals:

• Nage no Kata
• Randori no kata
• Tanto Randori no kata
• Goshin no kata
• Kaeshi waza

10:45                     Break

11.00                     Men’s Individual Tanto Shiai Finals = 4 bouts

Women’s Individual Tanto Shiai Finals = 4 bouts

12:00                     Break

12.30                     Women’s Team Tanto Shiai to finish

Men’s Team Tanto Shiai to finish

14:30                     Shower and change

15.30                     Medal Ceremony and Farewell

It has been re-decided that the term-time timetable will now re-commence on the 6th February (as it is probably easier for everyone that the term-time timetable coincides with the actual start of term). Apologies for any confusions our constant changings might have caused.

2 important points:

• Tuesday sessions run from 6.30-8.30 and NOT from 7.00-9.00 as was previously stated in the post below. If you are a member, you will have got e-mailed the wrong information by Joe back in December
• Normal term-time timetable will run again from Tuesday 31st January.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused by these updates, and good luck to those with exams and assignments!

As usual there are sessions running throughout the holiday and exam period, but with certain conditions:

• From today, there are no sessions until Tuesday 3rd January, at which point they will run like normal again
• All session times remain the same during this period except Tuesdays which are 7-9, and Friday which does not have a 5-6.30 session.
• For payment you will need to speak to Scott and agree prices with him and pay him directly, although if you are a student then prices are generally £5 a session or £20 for the period
• Normal timetable will recommence at the start of the spring semester

Happy Holidays!

A big congratulations to Sam, Caspar (former University of Sheffield member) and Ian (a non-student who trains at the club)  who just passed the nidan grading (2nd Dan black-belt) at the recent Edinburgh grading on the 26th November.

Passing 2nd Dan (and indeed, any Dan-grade) takes years of sustained effort and hard training and there is no such thing as an easy pass. Special mention must be given to Sam for passing with a starred performance and Caspar who put in possibly the performance of the day to pass with 2 stars. Well done guys!