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2024 Summer Seminar

Here are some pictures from the 2024 Ki Federation ki-aikido Summer Seminar. The seminar took place over two weeks in August 2024. Students could opt to attend single sessions, single days, or for one or two weeks. Members came from across Great Britain, France, Holland and Canada.

Practicing on a seminar like this provides a wonderful opportunity to experience working with different people and energies. It is also a marvellous chance to greet old friends.

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2024 Summer Seminar
Students came from the Paris clubs to join the seminar
2024 Summer Seminar
Kokyunage, forward projection
2024 Summer Seminar
Sensei Ros Davis of the Brixton club in London
2024 Summer Seminar
Sensei Linda Flynn, who teachs juniors at the Paisley-Elderslie club
2024 Summer Seminar
Students travelled down from the Lochaber club in Scotland to train with old friends from the Epsom club
2024 Summer Seminar
A busy class – lots of bodies moving, falling, and rolling on the mat
2024 Summer Seminar
A father testing his daughter’s stability. She is standing on one leg as he pushes her at the wrist
2024 Summer Seminar
There was a very good turnout from the French clubs – they brought Parisian chic to Somerset.
2024 Summer Seminar
Ki testing to check the structure of the ikkyoundo exercise
2024 Summer Seminar
The Dan Grade class taught by Sensei Williams
One brother helping the other prepare for his Dan grading at the end of the week
Epsom club students training together
Lots of footwear lined up along the mat. One person pointing at them, looking confused
One of the unmentioned challenges of Summer School: “are these my zoris?”
Students being tested for stability the "arms out from side and bending" exercise
Testing the “arms out from side and bending” exercise
More moments of the "arms out from side and bending" exercise, testing stability
Testing “arms out from side and bending” exercise, part 2
The "arms out from side and bending" exercise being used to throw partners
Preparing to use the “arms out from side and bending” exercise in a throw
Sensei O'Connell standing talking, whilst kneeling students attend to him
Sensei David O’Connell of the Paisley-Elderslie club teaching
A daughter tests her mother's stability in the ikkyoundo exercise.
Ki testing the ikkyoundo exercise
Lots of students testing each others' stability in various positions
Testing stability through exercises was a theme of the week
2024 Summer Seminar - the end of the first week
It’s always good to train with old friends again, and the Summer Seminar is a fantastic opportunity for that. We went home refreshed and reinvigorated.
2024 Summer Seminar fancy dress winners!
Fancy dress winners: “Bring out your dead”

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