Shimizu Sensei answers questions from students of the Tendokan and students from abroad.

Vol. 1 - Please, tell us about Osensei's character

Vol. 2 - What is the meaning of 'shizentai'?

Vol. 3 - Guidelines for students & Memories of your parents

Vol. 4 - Words of Osensei & If Osensei would live today...

Vol. 5 - What is your outlook for the future as aikidoka and as a person?

Vol. 6 - Memories of the uchideshi time

Vol. 7 - What is true aikido?

Vol. 8 - About Tendoryu Aikido

Vol. 9 - About the meaning of waza and etiquette

Vol. 10 - About the difficulties teaching abroad & Thoughts concerning the foreign students

Vol. 11 - What is your mission as an aikidoka? - Steps forward.

(Videos in Japanese with English subtitles.)

Wakasensei Kenta Shimizu answers questions from students of the Tendokan and from abroad.

Vol. 1 - What is the appeal of Aikido?

Vol. 2 - You can practise everywhere!

Vol. 3 - Do you like Aikido?

Vol. 4 - What is your relationship to Shimzu Sensei? What are your future goals?

Vol. 5 - How to face a slump?

Vol. 6 - About body flexibility

Vol. 7 - About flow and movement in Aikido

Vol. 8 - About the meaning of social gatherings. What do you have to consider when teaching?

(Videos in Japanese with English subtitles.)

Congratulation to all who got graded by Sensei and Waka-Sensei on one of the seminars in spring 2020, in Schopfheim, Berlin or Novi Sad.

We wish you endurance during these difficult times, when you may have no dojo available or no partner for training.

But don‘t forget: Aikido is not only practiced on the tatami.

Birgit (Tendokan)

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Wolfgang Klein, 5. Dan Tendoryu Aikido aus Bad Kreuznach

Ein Mann, der sein ganzes Leben dem Budo gewidmet hatte, ist leider von uns gegangen.

Möge er in Frieden ruhen.

* 14. November 1939
† 22. April 2020

Dear Aikidoka,

Europe is in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, and on many fronts, extending to the private and professional environment, you are currently involved in the effects of the fight against the spread of the virus.

Sadly, this also means that we have to deal with the question whether the summer courses with Shimizu Sensei will be possible at all, as a result of the current travel restrictions and contact bans.
The Herzogenhorn Training Center is currently closed until May 8th, 2020. What will happen after that date, is not yet evident and depends on further developments.

We agree with Shimizu Sensei and the Herzogenhorn that we will continue to monitor developments in April so that we can make an informed decision at the beginning of May.

Until then, as organizers of the seminars at Herzogenhorn, we have the following request:

If you have not yet registered, but would like to participate, if the implementation should be possible, then please register your interest with us now or as soon as possible.

Conversely, the following applies: anyone who has already registered but can no longer participate as a result of the development of the pandemic, even if the course should take place, should also contact us now or as soon as possible.

We need this information to be able to make a well-informed decision that takes account of the complexity of the situation, and ask for your understanding and support.