Get Thrown Around - aikido in Hollywood

About 10 years ago I randomly walked into an Aikido class at the Berkeley Y. I stuck around for several years - enough to make fourth Kyu and get my blue belt. I had black hair at that last test. I had planned to get my black belt in 2001, but I stopped practicing and priorities put aikido at the bottom of the list. Then I moved to LA and lost touch with my dojo.

Last fall I started getting a hankering to practice again. I looked around for a dojo or sword class, but didn't find one I liked. Then I found out an old friend and fellow student, lived in LA, was now a black belt _and_ teaching. Andrew was one of my favorite practice partners years ago, so when I found out he was teaching less than a mile from my house, I was so back on the mat.

Except we didn't have many mats. That's changing tonight. You see, when I was up in the Bay Area, I picked up some old Shusekai mats. These are most likely the same ones I practiced on 10 years ago. And now they're here in our dojo in Hollywood.

I'm so excited to doing aikido again - especially shusekai aikido. Perhaps you'd like to join me? Please do, although my favorite applications of aikido are off the mat.

AIKIDO
"The Way of Harmony"
A martial art dedicated to peaceful conflict-resolution with Andrew Reichart Sensei
Presented by Physical Training Center for Perfromance, Aikido Shusekai & Theatre Dojo.

Thursdays
7pm-8:30pm
at BODYWORKS Studio
6575 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

$20 per class
or 5 class block for $75
beginners always welcome

Benefits of Aikido Shusekai training include:
• Increased calm, confidence, awareness, and focus
• Improved stamina, posture, flexibility, and coordination
• Increased poise and resourcefulness in the face of crisis and conflict
• A bearing and attitude that helps to defuse potential conflicts
before they start
• Healing of old fears and traumas related to conflict and aggression
• Meeting good people
• Fun!

Comments

[Michael:)]

Dam girl, Arent we the biz-e-Bee.........

No NO NO...People in LA say there a producer> but only seem to produce themselves as evidence.

You on the otherhand could be convicted! nice work, looks like a great time...

tonight im going to a very happy bar:) 7994 santa monica blvd...Oh yes. A gay bar called Fubar...My friends are buying it and have asked me to invest in it..so im going to a gay bar for my first time. Im a little scared ya know the whole Anne Heche Thang... LOL..

Thanks for the invite, Cheers,M:)