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RMIT Aikido Club

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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25.01.2022 More Thursday club shenanigans on Zoom... Sweated like there was no tomorrow but great class nonetheless! We will have a fun trivia after training this coming Thursday. Topic to get smart on is going to be Melbourne/Victoria trivia, including current events. Question of the week: Metric or Imperial system?

25.01.2022 More Thursday shenanigans. Daylight saving edition... We will hold a club AGM (annual general meeting) this coming Thursday after class, around 8.30pm. Real quick update on this year's events and what's planned for the next months. We hope to see you there!

23.01.2022 This Tuesday will be our rolling and receiving class to help meet the mat safely and with fun. Topic of the class will be ikkyo ukemi in all its glory. Beginners are welcome to it, as much as seasoned practitioners! Hope to see you there and then

23.01.2022 Some techniques to swoon over... Ready your body for when training resumes. Proper iriminage is back on the menu!

22.01.2022 Don't forget to mask up at training. More brain melting exercises last night. Question of the week: Is it parma or parmi (in relation to the chicken dish)? Let's get the discussion going

22.01.2022 Training will be put on pause for at least a week, starting from tonight. No classes until at least the 7th of June. We will update you as soon as restrictions are eased and the uni allows club activities to resume.

20.01.2022 What's happening here?? Isolation fever has gotten to us

18.01.2022 Exams are fast approaching... And we are still training during that period. Come down in between papers to let off some steam (or drown your despair and hopelessness). Training takes place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 7.30pm in the Building 8, Level 3 activity rooms (next to the revolving doors on Swanston Street)

16.01.2022 This week's masked crusaders (hope you smiled). Don't mess with us...

14.01.2022 No words can describe the fun we've had in this training... Let the screenshots speak for themselves

13.01.2022 Hope no one poked holes in their ceilings last Thursday... Question of the week: Pineapple on pizza: Yay or yuck?

12.01.2022 First paired training via Zoom. We'll get better at it... Question of the week: Is it GIF or GIF?

11.01.2022 When can we do this again?

11.01.2022 A fragment of Aikido history from our Korean cousin Hapkido --- by Michael Rowe (Introduction to Combat Hapkido) -- Daito-Ryu has a long heritage that goes back several hundred years. The techniques were basically the combat methods of the Minamoto clan that had been refined and perfected by General Yoshimitsu. The General is known to have studied cadavers to understand human anatomy. These techniques were passed down within the clan, eventually they were taught to Soemon T...akeda. Soemon Takeda(1758-1853) taught a system called aiki-in-ho-yo, the aiki system of yin and yang, which was taught to Tanomo Saigo. Tanomo Saigo was an extraordinary pupil who is known to have fought against imperial forces in the Boshin War. During the Boshin War word reached Tanomo’s family that he had been killed in a battle with the Imperial forces. His family was determined to preserve the honor of the family name.Therefore his mother, wife, 5 daughters, and other members of his family committed ritual suicide. However, news of Tanomo’s death had been premature. After returning home and finding his family gone, he served as a Shinto priest in various districts and later adopted Shiro Shida who was extremely talented and mastered many of the systems techniques, later applying them with great success during the early years of Jigoro Kano’s newly founded Kodokan school of Judo. However, Shiro abandoned the practice of both systems, moved to Nagasaki and devoted the rest of his life to the study of classical archery. Tanomo had another heir to the system: Sokaku Takeda(1860-1943), Soemon’s grandson. Sokaku by this time was already adept in the martial arts. At an early age he had obtained teaching licenses in Ono-ha Itto-Ryu swordsmanship and Hozion spear fighting. Sokaku had also studied with the swordsman-saint Kenkichi Sakakibara of the Jikishin-kage-ryu. Sokaku traveled widely, attracting a large number of followers and was reputed to have around thirty thousand students and nearly every budoka of note in their era had trained with him atone time or another. One of these was his Korean manservant Choi Yong Sool See more

10.01.2022 Yes... Definitely feel for those who poked holes around them in Thursday's jo class. We're sorry if you have... Question of the week: Toilet paper orientation... Over or under?

04.01.2022 In lockdown but not feeling down... Kicking butt on Thursdays. Thanks to those who participated in the trivia after training. Lots of fun and hope your knowledge of Melbourne increased a little.