Welcome to South Austin Aikido

We recently finished a seminar with Bill Gleason Sensei of Shobu Aikido in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sensei worked the entire weekend on the principle of entering and rotating the spine with proper posture.  The key to the movement is to bend your knees and allow the energy to move down your spine.  We worked from a variety of attacks each time working to keep our hips facing our partner and rotating the spine without twisting the hips away from our attacker.  It was a mind teaser at first but became easier as the weekend progressed.  Each movement was based on entering directly into uke’s power and twisting the spine.

On Sunday Jesse Spears rolled 60 times to celebrate his birthday. Even with the dojo being quite warm due to the recond heat in Texas, Jesse did very well rolling for the many energetic aikidoka who helped with the special birthday rolls. Great Job Jesse and Happy Birthday!

We just finished 3 awesome days with William Gleason Sensei this past weekend.  This was a great seminar weekend, both on the mat with the many Aikidoka who attended and at the pot luck Saturday night.  There will be more information to come very soon..

We will be hosting a seminar with William Gleason Sensei this upcoming weekend. This will be an awesome event and Aikidoka of all levels are encouraged to attend this seminar weekend.

Seminar Schedule

• Friday, June 12th - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
• Saturday, June 13th - 9:00am to 12:00pm / 2:30pm to 4:30pm
• Sunday. June 14th -  10:00am to 1:00pm
  

We will have a pot luck on Saturday night and all are welcome to attend (including family members).  The pot luck will start at 7:00pm at the home of Darrell White.  SAA members can find the directions in the member's section of our website (requires login).  Maps will be also available in the dojo for our guests.

Click here for the Seminar flyer 
Click here for the registration form

Please note that we share the parking lot wih several businesses in our building.  Typically this is not an issue since our class schedule is after they close (evenings and Sundays). These business do operate on Saturday morning so our members and guests will need to park in the Broken Spoke's parking lot (next door to our dojo) for the Saturday morning portion of the seminar.

We are excited about hosting the upcoming seminar will William Gleason Sensei June 12th - 14th.

William Gleason Sensei is the Chief Instructor of the Shobu Aikido Dojo in Boston, MA and the author of two books, The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido and Aikido and Words of Power.

Gleason Sensei's approach to Aikido and teaching style are truly beneficial to Aikidoka of all levels and we enthusiastically invite Aikido students of all traditions to join us.

• Click here for the Seminar flyer 
• Click here for the registration form
  

UPDATE - PLEASE NOTE THE NEW SCHEDULE

• Friday, June 12th - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
• Saturday, June 13th - 9:00am to 12:00pm / 2:30pm to 4:30pm
• Sunday. June 14th -  9:00am to 12:00pm

This past week we celebrated two of our member's birthdays with our traditional birthday rolls.  The first was Tim Schmelter who rolled 70 times on Sunday, May 31st, followed by Jay Sensei who rolled 80 times on Monday, June 1st. 

Both Tim and Jay Sensei did wonderful rolling for the many energetic aikidoka who helped with the special birthday rolls.  Happy Birthday Tim and Jay Sensei!