Keele Course

On Saturday 25th Feb Basingstoke 2nd dans (Richard Harrop, Jimmy Slaughter, Neil Brown, Natalie Brown) will be teaching a course at Keele club dojo. Start time is 12:00. Approx end time is 16:30. There is beer and curry planned for afterwards. Several people from Cardiff are planning to attend, if you are interested in coming please let us know over the next week so transport can be confirmed.

Grading

There will be a novice-orange grading this Wednesday 6-10pm in Talybont Dojo. This will be followed by a post-grading social which includes pubs in Cathays, Lloyds Bar and Live Lounge. Best of luck to everyone planning to grade. Thursdays session will be the last before Christmas, with training commencing on the 8th Jan. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance :)

Sunday Course

There is a course this Sunday (4th) from 2-6 in Talybont Dojo! Everyone is welcome to attend, and the cost will be £10. The course will be followed by the Christmas meal at Talybont social. Normal training times will continue until 15th Dec before Uni breaks up for Christmas. Looking forward to seeing everyone there :)

Welcome New Members!

Thank you to everyone who came along and tried our taster session last Wednesday, we hope you all enjoyed it and are looking forward to a new term of training! To anyone who was unable to make the session but is still interested in joining, please come along to any of the sessions, Mon/Wed/Thurs 6-8 Talybont Dojo, all first sessions are free, if you are a student you can sign up online for £10 and get October training free. After that its either £2 a session or £50 for the year.

Rosie

Training tomorrow

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the sporadic posting.

Smiley will be teaching tomorrow at Sensai Frank's club from 4-6pm.

Training is in the sports and social club on the heath park hospital site.

Happy training!

Jen

Training and BBQ

Hi everyone, there is training this Saturday in Swindon from 10 -1. This is always a really good training event with a chance to be taught by some up-and-coming instructors and fill yourself up with yummy bbq goodies afterwards. Training plus bbq is only £10 (although you have to provide your own meat). There is also the chance for fun and games afterwards (weather permitting). If you're interested in going please give me or Tom a call/ text and we can try to sort out some transport.

Jen

Lifted fromthe Auichi website:-

Summer BBQ -- 25th June 2011
The Summer BBQ will be in Swindon. The event combines with the Stage-3 instructor course with a training session from 10am-1pm followed by a BBQ. It's open to all grades, their families, friends and kind-of interested, both the training and the BBQ. There will be the usual inter-club games and included in the BBQ are veggie stuff (rolls, sauces, a few sides, soft drink), facility hire at the park and charcoal. You only need to provide meat and alcohol should you wish. Tickets are £10 for training and BBQ or £5 for training or the BBQ alone. As this is an "open" training event friends and family are very welcome to come and have a go!

No training on Monday

Monday 30th May is a Bank Holiday - that means no training tonight! The next session is on Wednesday 1st June 6-8.

Grading in Paddington 11/06

There is a grading to be held, from 7th to 4th kyu in London on the 11th of June. Those eligable should be training regularly until then! You will need to speak to one of the instructors before then if you would like to attend.

We're training again!

Just a note to everyone: we are back to our regular training slots - Monday/Wednesday/Thursday 6pm-8pm from Monday 9th May 2011. We are also training tonight 6-8pm in Talybont Sports Centre and on Saturday at the Aiuchi Biennial Ball at Sophia Gardens from 12-4.

Aiuchi Jitsu Ball

The next Biennial Ball will be held on Saturday 7th May in Cardiff. We will be training during the day from around 12pm for 4 hours. The evening Masked Ball starts with a drinks reception at 7pm followed by a sit-down meal from 8pm, at the Novotel Cardiff Center. Tickets cost £30 each

As this is a Masked Ball (Masquerade) there is a formal dress-code, so black-tie and ball gown if you have them or suit, long dresses, kilts. Don't forget your masks and for the more flamboyant amongst you feel free to dress up in Venetian masked ball attire if you wish.