This year’s Japanese Autumn Festival was spectacular! After a two-year hiatus, over three thousand admirers of Japanese culture gathered at Prague’s Markéta. The festival was organized by the Association of Japanese in the Czech Republic (Čeko Nihonjin Kai) and we again had the great honour of demonstrating Aikido at the festival. It was really a pleasure to practice there.
A cottage near the forest, training on the mountain meadow, cooking together, hiking up the hills on the horizon, morning exercises and night walks, conversations by the fire, swimming in the spa town, reading comics and watching horror movies… our camp in Jeseníky was really very varied!
This year, eleven of us went on the annual trip to France, so we were really an unmissable group at the summer aikido school on the island of Oleron. Also because most of us were young students around 18 years old.
This year was our 14th summer school in mountains. As usual it was full of exercises (7 days and 6 hours of training every day) and at the same time it was very different in many ways.
Our suburban camps are full of exercises, games and Japanese culture. Children first learn to be strong fighters, and then aikidists – people who help others and protect life. This year we again held two dates and had a great time with the kids.
In the shade of the lush green trees at the centuries-old Vyšehrad Castle, looking down on the metropolis, the fifteenth annual Japanese celebration of spring, symbolically called “Bodaiju matsuri” or “Festival of Lime Trees”, took place. And we were there with our martial arts demonstrations and workshop.
Gaston Nicolessi (6th dan) attracts many young aikidists with his dynamic practice and very open approach, making his seminars very lively and friendly.
After three years, our French teacher Franck Noel visited us again and it was a great success – more than 170 aikidists gathered on the tatami.
Hanami is a Japanese spring festival associated with sakura blossoms – traditionally associated with the search for peace and tranquility. It has been celebrated in Prague’s Dejvice for twenty-three years under the auspices of the The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. This year we participated in this festival for the first time with an aikido demonstration.
Swedish teacher Jan Nevelius (7th dan) has been visiting us regularly for many years and brings us inspiration in the form of stable and dynamic aikido.
One Saturday in the middle of winter, a warm dojo and two groups of our smallest aikidists on the tatami. And so we enjoyed practicing aikido, foam sword fencing, lots of games, sushi making and also cleaning up together.
More than 20 aikido teachers from all over the Czech Republic participated in the training of teachers of the Czech Aikido Federation, which we hosted in February in Prague’s Vinohrady. The training was conducted by Martin Švihla from our club and René Novotný from Třebíč.
In the autumn of 2021 the Czech Aikido Federation held its first national seminar in Karlin, Prague, and since it was really around the corner, we attended the seminar in large numbers.
7 days and 6 hours of training a day. Training with and without weapons, indoors and outdoors, during day and during night, in keiko-gi and tracksuit. And with food, games, massages, sleep, additional training and exams in between. See the video!
We worked in the fields and in the gardens, we practiced in the fresh air, we touched the soil and plants, we bathed in the river Elbe. Just like every year, this spring we took our high school students and went to České kopisty to work and train at farm. Aikido is supporting life.
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