Aikido Yuishinkai

The Aikido Harmony dojo (Aikido Yuishinkai) at Sunnybank was officially opened on 2 November 2013. The full day of activities included a special children’s class, a demonstration class conducted by Williamson sensei (from Byron Bay) and student gradings from shodan (first level black belt) to sandan (3rd level black belt)…including my friend Sharma who performed a powerful and flowing nidan grading. The gradings included defending various open-hand attacks, attacks from a jo (staff) and bokken (wooden sword), and weapons kata demonstrations. It was a very action-packed and compelling day.

I can’t really do justice to the range of skills demonstrated at the opening day in just a few images, but these may give a few insights…

Williamson sensei demonstrating

Sharma (my friend who did his nidan grading) and Andel sensei working on a kokyunage

Martin sensei in action

Williamson and Martin senseis working together

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Joint naming ceremony and first birthday

This gorgeous little boy had a joint first birthday and naming ceremony at a local park, assisted by 80 family members and friends. It was a lovely ceremony, carefully and thoughtfully planned by his parents. It was a “cheeky monkey” themed celebration, completed with a visit from Spiderman and ended by one of Queensland’s recent dramatic later afternoon thunderstorms.

The naming ceremony featured pledges of support and commitment from immediate family members and guardians

Assisted by his parents, the toddler pours sand into the naming ceremony memento bottle

Some of the many “cheeky monkey” details his parents included in the celebration

The very popular and much admired Spiderman!

Face-painting was one of the many activities. In this case, it was the first time the face-painter had attempted a monkey design, so she was assisted by not entirely thrilled mobile art stand

The final result

Packing up with speed as the storm sweeps in!

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