My Aikido journey started on 28 February 1994. Had anyone told me then that I’d still be doing it more than 30 years later, I’d have laughed. Six months seemed more realistic. I was back…
For me, the sensations in the body doing ‘Ki for health’ exercises and Ki Aikido, are very similar to receiving/giving healing in the spiritualist church environment or Reiki. Whilst not quite the same, they both feel…
Anita is one of many people whose life took a turn away from Aikido – in her case to raise her family – before finding her way back on to the mat. Since her return,…
On 22nd April 2026, Sensei Ian Walters will reopen his dojo after a long enforced break Two weeks out from reopening his club, Sensei Walters is working the phones — calling round the people who’ve…
I first started aikido over 40 years ago in my late 20s. On my first day on the mat, I was blown away by a simple demonstration of Ki and I was encouraged by the…
I first became interested in martial arts as a nineteen-year-old, back in 1976. It wasn’t something I had gone looking for, but by chance my brother had started going to a kung fu class and…
Practising bokken at Splot farm Many years ago, in the mid 1980’s, when I was 19, I lived for two years in Tokyo, working as an au-pair. I loved it, I loved exploring the culture,…
When did you start Ki Aikido? October 2021 – I joined the introductory course with my partner and a girl we were fostering at the time. What made you want to try Ki Aikido? I…
When did you start Ki Aikido? The first time I started Ki Aikido was from 1996-2000 at the Piccadilly club with Sensei Bob Fletcher. I took 10 years out, and restarted in 2010 with my son, who was…
James Knight started Aikido in 1993. When work took him abroad for a few years, he opened his first club in a university in southern Thailand. Later, back in Britain, he ran the Cambridge Ki…
