Hi everyone

 

Daniel James Sensei of Griffith Aikido in Brisbane will be in Sydney this weekend and will teach regular class on Monday evening, 9 July at Camperdown.

 

Sensei has also graciously agreed to teach a class on Sunday evening, followed by some social activities. Please register your interest in this class.

 

In addition, there will be informal training with sensei on Sunday and Monday mornings: please let me know if you would like to join in.

 

Dr Daniel James BSc(Hons), MPhil, PhD, SMIEEE is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications at Griffith University. He works on a number of industry-based wireless applications. He is also working with the Queensland Academy of Sport and the Australian Institute of Sport on Sports Technology applications for elite Athletes.

 

Sensei gathered data from a range of aikidoists of varying levels of proficiency in cutting with a bokken (including Master Maruyama, Mike Williams Sensei and John Ward Sensei). The experiment demonstrated a correlation between the measured data and the relative expertise of the practitioner. Sensei presented his findings to an international physics conference in Tokyo in 2005 and then went on to have amazing adventures in japan with a junior yudansha from Sydney. http://griffithaikido.com/aikidojapan.html

 

In 2006 James Sensei was the keynote speaker at an international conference in Kanazawa. This year in November he will take up a 7-week japan society for the promotion of science international fellowship sponsored by Keio University.

 

James Sensei has published extensively in Academe and in the martials arts. He is famous for disproving the existence of ki: unliftable body is a simple matter of vectors of force, apparently.

 

James Sensei is a fabulous teacher who presents a wealth of understanding in very few words. I strongly recommend his classes to you.

 

best regards

 

Andrew