Welcome to South Austin Aikido

On August 5th we had three kyu tests with Bill Sengbusch and Michael Sekirin testing for Rokyu and Charles Pummill testing for Sankyu.

We are excited about the opportunity to provide seven consecutive days of training for our Aikido community in August.  We will work on many important areas of our training during these seven days, while providing aikidoka of all levels something exciting to work on each day.

Click her for the Aiki Week Flyer 

There will be potluck on Saturday night, where we will have the opportunity to enjoy each other's company and eat plenty of food to fuel our training for the remainder of the week.

Click here for directions to the potluck (requires SAA member login) 

Class is open to all and there is no cost for SAA members.  Please feel free to contact Jay Sensei or Todd Kammerer if you have any questions.

This weekend we will have open mat for kyu test preparation on Saturday followed by kyu testing on Sunday.  See schedule below.

• Saturday, August 4th - Open Mat 10:00AM to 11:30AM:  We will have open mat time available for reviewing the upcoming kyu tests as well as general open mat time.  All are welcome to participate in this 90 minute training session.

• Sunday, August 5th - Kyu Testing 2:45PM to 3:45PM:   We will have kyu testing during the second class.  We plan on going out for dinner immediately following and all are welcome to join.

On Monday, July 30th, Cierra King rolled 104 times to celebrate her 15th birthday.  It had been a while since she had trained but she rolled like a pro.  These youngsters appear tireless as they roll with so little effort.  Great Job Cierra and Happy Birthday!

On Tuesday, July 31st, Elijah Stone rolled 112 times to celebrate his 37th Birthday.  It was supposed to be 104 rolls, but Brenda Kammerer could not stand to be left out and quickly jumped up to participate.  Elijah got a little winded but hung on for the duration.  Great Job Elijah and Happy Birthday!

This may have been the most exciting year yet to visit the Rockies summer camp. We had 10 participants from our dojo attending the camp and many were used for ukemi by several of the instructors. Darrell was used by Ikeda Sensei and Saotome Sensei, Violina for Ushiro Sensei, Denne by Nevill Nason and Gilbert Ryan by Doran Sensei.

Each of the Shihans showed us that aikido goes well beyond what we can see in a physical realm. We worked on many different ki exercises that were fun, yet challenging and we returned home with many new ideas to play with for some time.

Then we attended the party on Friday where a true dance king was revealed, Gilbert Ryan Hughes, who danced and danced with just about anybody. In fact, I am quite sure I saw him dancing with George Ledyard Sensei at one point.

The camp was once again a tremendous learning experience for us all. It was such a joy for me to see our members get so excited about learning the many new things to practice.

Click here for pictures from the camp.