London Aikikai Dojo, Charteris Sports Centre, Charteris Road, London NW6 7ET

Saturday 31st May 2025 1pm – 6pm

Sunday 1st June 2025 11am-4pm

Two senior instructors, Davinder Bath and Steve Magson, with an awakened centre and unified body, discussing how Chiba Sensei brought about our unified body, with ‘a golden nugget in the belly’ as he put it, how we developed it in the 28+ years since, how we apply it in Aikikai Aikido techniques and the teaching methodology we have developed.

Using ‘inner power’, called Aiki in Daito Ryu, we remove slack from our body (and from the opponents body!), ground ourselves with opponent’s strength and unbalance the opponent on contact.

Common perception is to take advantage of the opponents limbs and joints to apply pressure but the opponent can easily react and counter this effort. The trick is to sense the opponent’s body axis to unbalance him. For this you need an awakened centre.

This will be a workshop style seminar where participants will have the opportunity to discuss, debate and practice.