Iwama Experience

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 21 October 2019

The IAF team of athlets from 11 countries had a great experience in Iwama and Tokyo, this summer. The main focus was on its first participation at the Japan National Sports Festival, in Ibaraki Prefecture. This was a premiere as no other Aikido group from abroad has participated before.

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Seminar conducted by Doshu in California, USA

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 01 August 2019

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Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba is going to conduct the Aikido seminar in California, USA, during 6-8 September 2019. Children ages 8-16 are welcomed and encouraged to attend this event. The IAF Chairman, Kei Izawa, and the IAF General Secretary, Wilko Vriesman, will be present at the seminar the first weekend of September.

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Gender Event in South America

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 23 July 2019

IAF members in South America are actively promoting a better gender balance in Aikido. Two international events have been recently successfully held on the continent, one in Buenos Aires, Argentina, another one in Santiago, Chile.

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2020 International Aikido Summit

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 27 June 2019

The International Aikido Summit is the new name of the biggest IAF event held in Japan every 4 years. The dates, the venue and the structure have been decided and we are happy to officially make them public.

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SkillAi - Hungary 2019

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 11 June 2019

The 2nd transnational meeting of the ongoing SkillAi (Erasmus) project was in Budapest, Hungary and turned out to be a great success. There were 20 teenagers of age 14-17 participating in the project, coming to the seminar organized on the side of the workshop on the Saturday of the 1 st of June.

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Dojo-Cho in Europe 2019

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 05 June 2019

During summer-autumn of 2019, Dojo-Cho Mitsuteru Ueshiba will be visiting Europe several times. He will teach in Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.

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Interview: Aikido empowering women - Budo and discipline in Aikido (#AikidoWomen)

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 27 March 2019

We are pleased to have a number of senior Aikido Women helming and leading important initiatives at IAF. Here, we speak to three women, who chair the IAF’s working groups:
Lydia Zijdel - Chairperson of the IAF Disability Working Group, Satomi Ishikawa - Co-Chairperson of the IAF Gender Balance Working Group, and Lijnie Reijers - Chairperson of the IAF Youth Working Group, to get their perspectives on their experience as women aikidokas, the path for women in Aikido and their hopes for the future.

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Celebrating the Martial Art of Aikido in Plovdiv

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 05 March 2019

Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture in 2019, will celebrate Aikido with the International Seminar & Embukai conducted by Tsuruzo Miyamoto Shihan, in April. This project aims to develop and promote the Japanese culture and values and it has been set to be the Ambassador of Aikido for Plovdiv 2019.

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International Aikido Youth Seminar in Bulgaria

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 25 February 2019

IAF continues the series of International Aikido Youth Seminars. Bulgaria is the next country to host and organize the third event dedicated to children and teenagers that love to practice Aikido. The seminar will be conducted by Hino Terumasa 5th Dan Hombu Dojo Shidoin, during the 19th and the 21st of July 2019, in Varna, Bulgaria.

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New Aikido Umbrella Organizations

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 24 February 2019

Two new Aikido umbrella organizations are to be created after the meetings the IAF representatives had with several Aikido organizations in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, this week.

(Meeting in Turkey)

(Meeting in Saudi Arabia)

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International Women’s Day in Europe

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 19 February 2019

The IAF Gender Balance Working Group invited Miyuki Kumazawa Sensei in Europe to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Miyuki Kumazawa 6th Dan Sensei is part of Aikikai Japan and she will conduct seminars in Netherland and Belgium under IAF aegis.

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SkillAi, EU Funded Aikido Project

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 23 January 2019

The website of a new Aikido project has just been launched: www.skillai.eu . The project is called SKILLAI and it is funded by the EU Erasmus+. The aim of the project is to introduce Aikido as a skill development tool for young people. The first three countries within this project are Slovenia, Hungary and Netherland.

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First Round for the IWGA Athlete of the Year

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 16 January 2019

The IWGA Athlete of the Year event went through the first round and Renato Filippin Shihan, who I nominated, came to number 11 among the other entries, so our participation this year will not go any further. We would like to congratulate those other athletes from other sports, who have moved to the following stage and I personally would like to thank all those Aikidokas and friends who voted for Renato Filippin Shihan who received a significant volume of support from many people!

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The Kagami-Biraki 2019 ceremony at Hombu Dojo

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 16 January 2019

The main hall at Hombu Dojo was entirely full on the occasion of the Kagami-Biraki ceremony of 2019. There were people who came from far away countries to attend this event. 742 Aikidoka were promoted to a new Yudansha Aikido Aikikai rank. Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba conducted the ceremony and also held an Embukai. 

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The Disability Working Group in Action

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 07 January 2019

For the first time, two wheelchair using Aikido teachers taught together in Aikido clinics in Europe. Lydia Zijdel, the Chairperson of the Disability Working Group of the IAF, from Netherland, and Molly Hale, member of the same working group, from USA, organized a tour where they taught together in Netherland. This event was organized in cooperation with Aikikai Netherland, under the aegis of IAF.

“Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow.”
Morihei Ueshiba

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Renato Filippin Shihan Nominated Athlete of the Year 2018

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 28 December 2018

International World Games Association will launch the session for designation of the Athlete of the Year 2018 on the 1st of January 2019. The nominated person to represent Aikido is Renato Filippin Shihan 7 Dan.

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Female Instructors Seminar in Netherland

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 11 November 2018

The Annual Aikido Seminar in Netherland, that is conducted by female instructors, run its course full well. Women and also men gathered to practice together on tatami.

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Aikido at Nanairo Ekiden in Uruguay

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 08 October 2018

Uruguay gathered a lot of active people yesterday, in Canelones, for the Nanairo Ekiden event. "It was a pleasant surprise to see that even though there were a lot of loud expressing spectators, during the Aikido demonstration everybody turned quiet and paid attention to what was happening on the tatami." said Lilamani de Soysa, from the University of Tsukuba, present at the event.

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The International Aikido Female Instructors Seminar in Slovenia

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 14 September 2018

Slovenia hosted a very punctilious and fruitful international aikido seminar. It was conducted by three women who love aikido very much and show this through their dedication on the tatami and beyond: Nadia Korichi, 4th Dan, Satomi Ishikawa, 4th Dan, and Staša Pisek, 3rd Dan. The seminar was in Ljubljana, during the 11th – 13th of May. Boštjan Kenda was one of the participants at this seminar and was very kind to share the impressions upon the International Aikido Female Instructors Seminar.

Satomi Ishikawa Sensei, Staša Pisek Sensei and Nadia Korichi Sensei

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24-Hour International Aikido Marathon

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Written by Irina Gaspar

Category: IAF latest News

Published: 30 August 2018

Kosice will be the heart city of the 24-hour International Aikido Marathon this year. 14 instructors from 7 countries will conduct the trainings of this event, during the 6th-7th of October 2018.

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