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This year this event was held on Monday April 29th. It was a beautiful day with few clouds in the sky.
The event began at around 10pm when people from all over Japan began to arrive at the shin dojo in Iwama. This year there were representatives from Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo. As well as branch dojos from around the Ibaraki area. As well as friends of the dojo from other martial arts disciplines.
Last year there were not many uchi deshi. This year however there were over 30 from America, The UK, France, Venezuela and Russia.
By twelve O'clock we were ready to begin the shinto ceremony that is held on the 3rd floor of the Shin Dojo. The ceremony was performed as always by Takahashi San and concluded with offerings of Sagaki being placed on the kama-dana by several guests.
After the ceremony was concluded the party began. First were a couple of speeches one by the Major of kasama and another given by the Iwama area's assemblyman.
After the speeches were over the party began. As usual a good time was enjoyed by all although for the uchideshi sitting cross-legged on the floor for hours can prove to be an ordeal.
The party finished at around 5:30 and with so many uchi deshi it was not long before the shin dojo was clean and tidy.
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HOW WAS IT& HOW MANY PEOPLE?
According to our record, a staggering number of 110 active participants during the two-day open Koushukai have been achieved. It was an unforgettable moment where aikidoka(s) from various region all-around Indonesia and other neighboring countries gather on the training mat to learn directly from Hitohira Saito Soke.
TECHNIQUES THAT SENSEI TAUGHT (1st Seminar Day)
Saito Sensei spent the 1st day of seminar teaching us the basics of Aikido, such as attitude towards trainings, how to put our heart toward training, kamae, Tai no henko, Morotetori kokyunage, and morotetori kokyu nage henka, katatori kokyunage, katate tori shihonage, katate tori shihonage henka.
Saito Sensei explaining different stances and their respective space utilization during the 1st Seminar Day
The 1st seminar day consisted of 2 sessions with the first session spent on teaching the basics (as mentioned above) and the first-half of 2nd session to review it. During the 2nd session, Saito sensei also added other waza(s), such as kotegaeshi and shihonage into the routine.
TECHNIQUES THAT SENSEI TAUGHT (2ndSeminar Day)
The 2nd seminar day initially started again with a review of the basic lessons taught from the 1st seminar day. However, the overall 2nd seminar day was spent mostly in teaching the basics of BukiWaza, such as Ken & Jo Suburi.
The key message as communicated by Saito Sensei during the 2 days seminar was to always be aware of the relationship between TachiWaza and BukiWaza.
Everyone is impressed how Saito sensei sincerely tought us with details, like a diamond, perfections is in details.
Arigatou Sensei, Honto ni Arigatou!
Ferial Lukman, Erick S. Lauw, David Chrissandy
Administrator of Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shurenkai Indonesia FB Page.
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The celebration party after the enbukai started at 11:00h and lasted until 17:00h. At the beginning of the party, Sensei also made a speech.
After the party, as it is tradition at the Iwama dojo, there was a second party at the Shin dojo and then a third party at Waka Sensei's restaurant, the Yamabiko.
The Kagami Biraki is one of the most important events of the year in Iwama and as such it was very nice to see some many people from so many and distant parts of Japan and of the world.
Congratulations to Sensei on this important event and congratulations to everybody who worked very hard such as Mrs. Saito and family, Okoshi sensei and of course all Iwama students and uchideshi.
We hope that next year the event will be even bigger with more participants.
Meanwhile, do not forget the Iwama Shin Shin Aikishurenkai annual demonstration this coming June. Please keep attention and reserve some time to participate in this important future event both attending the demonstration and participating in it.
Let us all go there!
Pictures from:
Facebook Busenkai
We would like to thank very much to the above gentlemen for permission to post some photographs about this event.
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Happy New Year to you!
We hope you all have a happy new year.
Thank you very much for supporting us last year.
We hope, from bottom of our heart,s that you are happy and well.
January 1st 2013
Secretary of Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai
From the 2nd to the 4th of November, Hitohira Saito Kaicho was teaching a seminar in southeastern France, in Chartres de Bretagne. The place was quite with nice accommodations and good infrastructures that satisfied everyone.
There were many north European countries represented in this seminar : France, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom... The southern part of Europe was less represented since Sensei had taught a bukiwaza seminar in Sicilia few weeks before that. But still, the tatami was filled with people and good will to train under Sensei's directions.
Also, we were lucky enough to have Charles Durand as a translator for the seminar, a French long time friend of Olivier, from of Yoyogi Uehara dojo in Tokyo. With his experience of the Japanese culture he could grasp all the subtle things sensei meant and made them clear for all the French speaker.
During this seminar sensei was eager to teach and explain many technics, from basic to more advanced ones like during a hanmi handachiwaza special keiko.
During the Bukiwaza keiko Sensei taught Aikiken suburi, happo giri (basic and also roku and shichi no suburi no katachi), go no awase and kumitachi with some interesting variations that ended up with sensei smiling and demonstrating a few henka we couldn't reproduce. For the Aikijo, sensei taught the suburis, 31 no jo alone and with a partner (complete) and some kumijos.
All along those bukiwaza keiko, sensei underlined the relation between the Iwama shin shin aiki shuren-kai logo, the square or the triangle to the forms of our aikido, showing us the importance of a good body structure that implies balance and stability.
The taijutsu keikos were oriented by the type of attack (ushiro waza, morotedori ) or the type of technique (kokyunage). Sensei showed us a wide variety of techniques and took time to explain each one several times if we needed him to as he went among us, correcting everyone.
During those classes, he made clear the importance of the kiai, saying that real training starts with the kiai. He also underlined the importance of the spiral in aikido, relating it to the movement of our blood inside of us or the stars around the earth.
The mood on the tatami was to exchange, many sempai were training with white belts from any level in a mutual will to improve. This is the spirit that we have to keep in these seminars where we have the opportunity to receive the teachings of Sensei in our own countries.
The seminar ended as usual with questions that sensei took time to answer as well as he could. We had the chance to hear about Morihiro Saito sensei's life after the war, both working in the railway company where he spent several way working in a row to be able to spend more time in the field and training with O sensei.
Sensei also told us about the power of kotodama in the kiai and the way it affects the partner, as an invitation to train or as something to stop him, making us able to act first.
Once again this seminar was a great opportunity to recieve sensei's teaching in our home country around several subjects, from the basis to more advance forms, with all the indications we need to keep in mind every time we train. As sensei said during the seminar, we can only train a few times on each techniques during those short seminars, and he invited all of us to come to Iwama to train under his teaching for more.
Account by Victor Detrez
Organization by Olivier Eberhardt
Saito Sensei teaching at France seminar in 2012
Below, please study Sensei's main schedule for 2013.
For any questions regarding this schedule, please contact the honbudojo at Iwama.
Thank you very much.
General activities:
January
20th - Kagami biraki (Tanrenkan)
April
29th - Tai Sai
June
8th - Iwama Enbukai
SEMINARS 2013
February
1-4 Indonesia
5-11 Phillipines
March
25 March-2 April Tucuman, Argentine
April
13-14 Osaka
June
29 of May to 4th of June - Germany
July
20 to 28 - SPECIAL UCHIDESHI SEMINAR IN THE PHILIPPINES., Cebu City, Manila
October
24-29 St. Petersburg, Russia
November
Spain
20-26 Viña del Mar, Chile
December
7-8 Nagoya
