SAA Instructors | Instructors at South Austin Aikido |
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Jay Lindholm
Jay Lindholm Sensei began his martial arts training in 1981. Following two years of training in a street fighting system “Kajukenbo”, he then spent eight years training in Tae Kwon Do. Jay Lindholm, Sensei taught at his own Tae Kwon Do school in Dallas, for two years prior to moving to Austin, Texas in 1989. Lindholm Sensei started his aikido career in 1989 which has continued through today encompassing 18 years of consistent aikido practice. Lindholm Sensei regularly attends training seminars with both Ikeda Sensei and Saotome Sensei to bring ideas and training methods back to the dojo. His motto is “just start wherever you are and get better from there.” Email: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Violina Rindova
Violina was born in Bulgaria and came to the US in 1992 to pursue a PhD in Business Management at New York University. In New York, she began training at the New York Aikikai in 1995. Upon graduation in 1999, she moved to Seattle and continued her training there at Two Cranes Aikido and Puget Sound Aikikai. Between 2000 and 2006, Violina lived in Washington DC and trained at the Aikido Shobukan Dojo. There she earned her nidan and taught aikido at the University of Maryland Aikido Club and at Aikido Shobukan Dojo. Violina joined the South Austin Aikido community in the summer of 2006, when she moved to Austin to take a position at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin. Violina brings a vivacious energy to the mat and encourages all students to stay fully focused and present. She says that aikido training has had an immensely positive impact on her life because it has expanded her awareness. She continues to strive to unlearn all unconscious patterns of behavior that we develop to cope with life, but that keep us disconnected from what surrounds us, and life as it unfolds. Violina's recommendations to all who consider training in Aikido is to simply come to the dojo, train regularly, and stay fully focused and present on the mat; everything else takes care of itself.
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