Hitohira Saito Jukucho taught a successful seminar in Bratislava, the capital and the main city of the Slovak Republic, located on the banks of the Danube River.
There were 13 countries that participated in this interesting seminar: Check Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom (England and Scotland).
According to Tittarelli Sensei, whom we thank for providing us with this information, this was a very interesting seminar. For taijutsu, Sensei taught kokyu nage, irimi nage, kote gaeshi, koshi nage, shiho nage, sumi otoshi, ikkyo kara rokyo made.
For bukiwaza, Sensei taught the Aikiken suburi, happo giri ( basic and also roku and shichi no suburi no katachi"..) and the kumi tachi. For Aikijo Sensei taught Jo suburi, the 13 no kata, 31 no kata, 31no jo awase, the kumi jo (1, 2, 3, 4-1, 4-2, 5, 6, 7, 8) and some interesting variations.
During this seminar there were two special keiko: one with "ninin dori, sannin dori and yonin dori" and the second with "ken tai jo" with many variations.
Indeed we can see that this was an extremely interesting seminar. The need to go to as many seminars as possible and learn directly from the ultimate and last source of traditional Aikido is here apparent. If we do not make an effort to participate in these seminars, we will not learn what Sensei has to teach. By this seminar we can clearly see that there is a world of information on Aikido inside Sensei to which no one has yet had full access. Please find some time to participate in as many seminars as possible from now on. You will not regret it!
During this seminar Stefan Kurilla Sensei, long time student of Morihiro Soke and Hitohira Jukucho, was promoted to Rokudan. Congratulations Kurilla Sensei! All the Slovakia Aikido is to be congratulated on this occasion!



