I will be out of the office starting 26 Oct 2009 and will not return until
27 Oct 2009.
Any matter requires urgent attention pls contact Belinda Wong 02 97150141
or Billy Li 02 9715 0147 , otherwise I will attend to your matter on my
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I'm good to do any of these dates at the moment. I think it is important that we all get used to being attacked by a large, angry, Kiwi salesman as it adds an extra dimension to our training...
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On 23/10/2009, at 1:57 PM, andrew sunter wrote:
Please see Craig's email below. Anyone interested in Saturday training?
best regards
A
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:Craig Leith<craig@....au> Date: Oct 23, 2009 1:28 PM Subject: Saturday Training To: Andrew Sunter <atsunter@yahoo.com.au>
Hi Andrew,
As discussed depending whether anyone else is interested I like to put these dates forward for extra training -
October -
Saturday 31/10/09
November -
Saturday 07/11/09
December -
Saturday 05/12/09 or Saturday 12/12/09 or Saturday 19/12/09
Let me know if any of the seniors are keen, have a good weekend
Please see Craig's email below. Anyone interested in Saturday training?
best regards
A
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig Leith <craig@...> Date: Oct 23, 2009 1:28 PM
Subject: Saturday Training To: Andrew Sunter <atsunter@...>
Hi Andrew,
As discussed depending whether anyone else is interested I like to put these dates forward for extra training -
October -
Saturday 31/10/09
November -
Saturday 07/11/09
December -
Saturday 05/12/09 or Saturday 12/12/09 or Saturday 19/12/09
Let me know if any of the seniors are keen, have a good weekend
Pls see two fwdd messages below from Jim Nicholls Sensei and Elisabeth Andel Sensei from Byron Bay
A
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elisabeth Andel <aikidoyuishin@...> Date: Sep 25, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: RE: One week to go:
By the way, may I tack something on to this: I was just asked to pass on this information: during the festival there will be free massages given by students of Naturopathy (in the yurt), the only requirement is that you bring 2 towels ... could you please inform your students of this as well?
Thank you,
[Elisabeth Andel]
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Nicholls [mailto:hypercinema@...] Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 2:47 PM
Just a reminder that we now have one week to go before the Byron Aikido Festival starts with Maruyama Sensei, Okajima Sensei and Williams Sensei. This is the seminar not to miss. If you or your students are still going to enrol please contact us as soon as you can because we want to able to tell the senseis in advance about what numbers to expect. We currently have over 80 aikidoka registered including some from overseas.
Remember there is free sleep-over accommodation or camping available at the dojo and flights to Ballina or Coolangatta are cheap if you can pick your day.
Sorry for the late notice, tonight's class at Camperdown will be taught by Yoshitake Hashimoto Sensei (Yoshi Sensei) who is visiting from Japan. He will be ably assisted by his wife, Hitomi-san. We will go for beer and pizza after class. Please make a special effort to attend.
Yoshi Sensei is hosting the friendship seminar in japan next May, so this is a great opportunity to meet him and hear all the wonderful things he has planned for us
Apologies but I need to cancel tomorrow’s
intensive as my condition has deteriorated. I thought I was getting over the
flu yesterday but I’ve developed a secondary chest infection which has
affected my breathing. I saw the doctor this morning and he suspects swine flu
although this will not be confirmed until lab results come back.
To prevent further spread of the flu the doctor would
like me to try and quarantine myself up until next Tuesday; hopefully by then I
should be fully recovered from it.
I would like therefore to reschedule the intensive for
a week tomorrow - Saturday 25th July, please let me know if you are
still interested in an intensive on this date.
Apologies again for having to cancel tomorrow’s
classes.
Unfortunately I need to cancel tonight’s class
at Camperdown as I am ill with the flu. We have no other instructor as Mike is
over in Perth and Kate is in Europe.
Bob and Craig however will be at the dojo tonight doing
some training so you are more than welcome if you wish to go along and do some of
your own personal training.
I think I am over the worse of the flu so by tomorrow
I’m hoping to feel a lot better. I’m still planning therefore to
run the intensive this Saturday. I will however send another e-mail out
tomorrow if this is not possible. Unless you hear otherwise assume at this
stage that the intensive is still on.
As you maybe aware Sensei will be going on holiday to
Europe for six weeks in June. Whilst Sensei is
away the fortnightly Saturday classes at the Camperdown dojo will not be
running. Sensei however has given be the OK to run intensives during this
period.
For those of you who have not attended intensives
before they basically consist of two classes with a short break in between. It
is entirely up to you if you want to do both or just one of the classes. The
intensives will be run at the Camperdown dojo.
Unless unforeseen circumstances arise the dates of the
intensives will be:
Saturday June 20th: 9.30am
– 11.30am (Aikido Weapons - kenjutsu)
Break
12.00
– 2.00pm (Aikido Body Arts – taijutsu)
Saturday July 18th: 9.30am
– 11.30am (Aikido Weapons - kenjutsu)
Break
12.00
– 2.00pm (Aikido Body Arts – taijutsu)
For the first class as per the fortnightly class please
arrive at least 30 minutes before the formal start of class at 9.30am to help
set up the dojo.
If you require any further information about the intensives
please speak to me over the next few weeks.
As most of you know, Tony Neal Sensei opens his new Sydney dojo at Liverpool next Tuesday evening 26 May. Web: http://www.aikidoliverpool.com/
Tony Sensei will run regular classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6.30 to 8.30 pm and he is running a special program for the first three weeks.
Question 1: who is available to come and celebrate the opening night? please let me know whether you can make it and whether you need help with transport
Question 2: who is available (coloured belts and above) to attend other classes in the first three weeks to get thrown around by Tony Sensei? please nominate what day(s) you can make it.
Tony Sensei has made arrangements with the PCYC for reduced costs for visitors.
"The Tool of Violence: Leveling the playing field"
On Saturday 7 March, our friends from TFT will be running a one-day
introductory seminar concentrating on using "violence" as a survival
tool.
This seminar is open to women and men ages 18 to 85 and is suitable
for both newcomers and those of you who have trained in TFT
previously. It's for anyone who needs to know that they can
effectively use violence as a tool for surviving violence.
Follow this link
(http://www.targetfocustraining.com/what_is_tft.html) to read up on
TFT. Don't worry about the hype on the website, it's targetting the
US market.
Alternatively, ask me or another of the seniors about their
experience of this training. We have hosted our TFT friends at the
dojo three times previously and the majority of our students have
found it a fascinating and extremely worthwhile experience.
(Personally, I find it pretty confronting and mind-bogglingly helpful
in my personal training.)
DATE: Saturday 7th March 2009
TIME: 8.45am - 4.30pm
LOCATION: Camperdown dojo
ATTIRE: Comfortable training clothes and "dedicated mat shoes" (that
means never been worn outside) if you have them -- bare feet if you
don't. There is the potential for some outdoor training also, so be
prepared.
TRAINERS: Mick Valentine, Mike Allen and Kristian Miller-Karlsen
COST: $100
Hi everyone
We are excitedly anticipating having Michael Williams Sensei (9-dan)
teach a seminar on the weekend of 4-5 April. We are yet to confirm
details, but please book the time in now.
Williams Sensei is the International Chief Instructor for Aikido
Yuishinkai as well as the Chief Instructor for Australia and New
Zealand.
best regards
Andrew
Hi everyone
We will recommence Saturday classes this weekend and run them every
fortnight until Easter:
14, 28 February
14, 28 March
best regards
Andrew
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel JAMES <dan@...> Date: Nov 19, 2008 5:40 PM
Subject: Aikido Friendship Seminar Japan May, 2010 advance notice invitation To:
Dear Aikido Yuishinkai friends,
Yoshitake Hashimoto sensei extends an invitation to join him in Japan for a fabulous aikido friendship seminar in May 2010 featuring instructors from Aikido Yuishinkai and other groups.
Find out more and register your intrest to secure your place at the camp at http://griffithaikido.com
"..we're continually bombarded with promises of immediate gratification, instant success, and fast, temporary relief, all of which lead in exactly the wrong direction", G.Leonard
Japan Aikido Friendship Seminar
May 2-4 2010
Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture,
Hosted by Yoshitake Hashimoto sensei, Founder Junshinkai Aikido
Join a fabulous line up of senior instructors from Japan and around the world for three days of exploring aikido without boundaries and building a bridge between Japan and Australia.
Located in Matsusaka its only a short ferry ride (45min) across the bay from Nagoya airport and takes you back in time as you enter rural old stye Japan. A 3 day intensive aikido seminar will have you relaxing each night in the sento (traditional bath house) before enjoying traditional local foods. Enjoy top class training facilities on a umm.. 250 mat dojo on a sprung wooden floor.
After the seminar we visit the Ise shrine (perhaps Japans most important shrine) that is well off the tourist track and rarely visited by westerners. Enjoy the atmosphere, traditional foods and crafts. Only a day later find yourself in Takayama lodging for two nights traditional style in traditional Japanese lodgings. For those time poor already a week (9 days)has gone by and its time to go home and back to work.
Those with a little more time and cashed up can stay on for fabulous Kyoto (the old capital), maybe koyasan and then hit the new capital Tokyo (which has the same number of people as Australia living in it) maybe staying at Andrew Sunters favourite hotel the Andon Ryokan and then head home the following Friday or stay longer and hump a backpack (for the independant travellers amongst you)
"..we're continually bombarded with promises of immediate gratification, instant success, and fast, temporary relief, all of which lead in exactly the wrong direction", G.Leonard
I will be out of the office starting 7 Nov 2008 and will not return until 1
Dec 2008.
Any matter requires urgent attention pls contact Belinda Wong 02 9715 0141
or Billy Li 02 9715 0147 , otherwise I will attend to your matter on my
return
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See below the warm invitation from Jonathan Temporal Sensei.
Unfortunately I have another commitment on the weekend he suggests, 22-23 November, but who would be interested in the following weekend, 29-30 November?
If you have a strong preference for 22-23 November, please let me know as i might be able to rearrange my schedule.
We may as well make this our December intensive.
let me know soon please
best regards
Andrew
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jojo Temporal <jojo_temporal@...>
Date: Oct 31, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Wagga Wagga visit To: andrew sunter <andrew.sunter@...> Cc: david@...
Good afternoon Andrew,
We all certainly had a big October for the Wagga Wagga dojo. After that awesome seminar with Maruyama Sensei at your dojo (thanks again for making that possible), we then hosted Talag Sensei here for a couple of classes where he taught our students.
Although tomorrow is already November, our whole dojo is still feeling the positive effects from last October's great Aikido events. Everybody seems to be showing much more commitment to their training now.
I'm emailing to invite you and your dojo to come and visit us in Wagga Wagga. As we've done previously with Murray Loader and the Canberra dojo, we would be keen to host you and your students here. As you are the most senior instructor, it would br great if you can conduct classes here for us. All of us at the Wagga dojo would be keen to learn from you.
If this is feasible for you and your students, we're looking at possibly the 3rd weekend of November (22 and 23) to host you guys. This will also coincide with the date of our dojo Christmas party - and we can all celebrate this on Saturday night.
If the above dates don't suit, there's still the last weekend of November.
It will be ideal if we can hold the seminar from Saturday to Sunday to maximise the time. As for accommodation, we will endeavour to billet as many of the Sydney students as possible in our own students' homes. The rest need not worry as we will look around for the best and cheapest accommodation deals here in Wagga.
Every since you mentioned during the last seminar that the Sydney guys were keen to visit Wagga, our sutdents have been eagerly looking forward to hosting the Sydney dojo here. We all hope that we can make this happen.
I hope to hear back from you soon.
Thank you and have a great weekend. Regards to all your students.
Due to fairly limited response I think we'll see how we go in terms of how long we train. will be at least one 2-hour class and we'll decide from there.
feel free to check in on 0425 252 317 if you want to know what we decide
Please disseminate this to your students in the hope that all of you can join us for a Big Bokkens on the Beach day out.
As per the attached document we will be enjoying both beautiful
Coochimudlo Island and the teachings of Murray loader for the day. Lunch will be provided as part of the cost and will act as our end of the year get together after another successful year for Yushinkai Capalaba Aikido, and our first end of year with (the official) Aikido
Yuishinkai Australia.
Please forward me any questions or acceptances and hope to see you all there.
Only three weeks to go till Maruyama Sensei's Sydney Seminar, 4-7 October
Please note attendance is limited and there are only about 10 spots left.
We have a fantastic new website including details of the seminar thanks to the efforts of Bob Withers (great work Bob!). Please check it out if you haven't already at http://www.aikidoinsydney.com/
Pre-payment will really help us reduce admin on the day, but mostly we'd like to know if you want to take advantage of the Japanese-style lunch for only $5 per lunch. This will help a lot with planning.
Contact info@... to register Please let us know: - If you are attending the full seminar or particular sessions - If you want to attend the seminar dinner - If you want lunch
We'll send account details for online prepayment and sign-up forms as required.
I attended Maruyama Sensei's seminars in Europe this year and he has some fantastic new stuff including footwork, another shinkage-ryu kata, principles for preventing uke from stepping, new ideas on stability and much more.
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