We are especially pleased to announce that our teacher, Damian Cingarski is the first Macedonian who is officially invited to conduct training of aikido outside the borders of our country. Invited by the aikido club - "Dojo de Neuchâtel - Espace Culturel" in Switzerland, on the occasion of the celebration of their 5 year anniversary, for which they organized a seminar and an appropriate celebration, our teacher will be one of the lecturers who will have the honor to give one training. The seminar will be held on 21 and 22 May 2011.
The seminar is designated as a big aikido friendship meeting, and all who want to be part of it are welcome!
On 10/12/2010 the club "Irimi Nage" from Skopje celebrated 10 years of existence and on the occasion of this jubilee organized a seminar on Real Aikido with a demonstration of the art. We are honored that we were invited to participate in this demonstration as the sole representatives of Aikikai Aikido in Macedonia. Special thanks to event organizer Marian Trajkovski. Here is our presentation from two angles:
Eric Graf sensei will again hold a seminar at our club. This time, to the pleasure of all, the seminar will last three days with six training sessions. After last year's experience, we are all looking forward to the opportunity to learn from this great teacher again .
The schedule will be additionaly arranged, but there should be two training sessions per day, the first at 10:00 am and the second at 17:00 pm. Saturday, Sunday and Monday (national holiday - October 11). The seminar will take place at our club and will cost 15 EURO.
The last weekend of March (26th, 27th and 28th) our dojo will organize the fifth by now seminar with our teacher Michele Quaranta from Switzerland. The seminar will be open for all aikidokas.
Place of the event is the karate center "Rabotnicki" (next to the "Beverly Hills" shopping center). We are happy to welcome you! More info in the invitation.
From 22-nd until 24-th of May 2009 the teacher Eric Graf from Neuchatel, Switzerland will be a guest at our dojo and will give a weekend seminar which is open for every interested aikidoka to participate.
The place of the event is the gym of the Karate club RABOTNICKI (close to Beverly Hills shopping centre). Don't miss the opportunity!
The last weekend of February (27th, 28th and 01st od March) our dojo will organize the fourth by now seminar with our teacher Michele Quaranta from Switzerland. The seminar will be open for all interested aikidokas.
Place of the event is the karate center "Rabotnicki" (next to the "Beverly Hills" shopping center). We are happy to welcome you! More info in the invitation.
On 22-nd and 23-rd of November 2008 the teacher Bosko Jelic from Belgrade, Serbia will be a guest at our dojo and will give a weekend seminar which is open for every interested aikidoka to participate.
The place of the event is the gym of the Karate club RABOTNICKI (close to Beverly Hills shopping centre). Don't miss the opportunity!
The traditional aikido happening – Aikido trophy of Belgrade took place last Saturday (25th of October) in Belgrade. This year the trainings were held by Michele Quaranta sensei and Jelena Vrzich sensei as representatives of AAS and Mirko Jovandich sensei from AUS. The participants were able to see three different points of view towards aikido and learn many lessons from each of them. Our dojo took part with three participants.
On Sunday, at the dojo of the Seishin aikido dojo from Belgrade, there was an examination for numerous Dan grades in AAS and awarding of the diplomas from the previous examinations. The instructor at our club, Damjan Cingarski, received his diploma for 1st Dan.
On invitation of the Bulgarian aikido association up front with Edward Germanov sensei (5th Dan Aikikai, Quaranta sensei held a weekend seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria on the 18th and the 19th of October. The seminar was announced as the most attractive seminar for this year in Bulgaria, and it lived up to the announcement to its fullest. Around a hundred aikidokas from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia and USA took place at the seminar.
The starting trainings were held by Germanov sensei, and he presented beautiful aikido through various inventive forms. After him, Quaranta sensei explained the basic principles of the didactic system of Ikeda sensei, and woke up great interest among the participants.
Quaranta sensei has visited Sofia in the past as Ikeda sensei’s assistant, but for the first time now as a teacher.
Seishin aikido dojo has invited Jelena Vrzic sensei the last weekend (26th and 27th of September 2008) to give two trainings on which she will present a part of her expirience from her last one month visit to Hombu dojo in Tokio, Japan.
We thank Jelena Vrzic sensei for sharing it with us and we thank he organizers for giving the opportunity.
The second seminar from the series of teacher's seminars for instructors who teach according the didactical system of Masatomi Ikeda shihan 7.Dan Aikikai was held from 30-th of May untill 1-st of June 2008 in the capital of the Czech Republic. The 1-st one was held in November 2007 in Basel. This time everybody was there: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Netherlands, Macedonia, Germany, Croatia, Ukraine and Switzerland.
Like the first time, Quaranta sensei leaded the seminar this time also. Its subject was the 6-th kyu examination program, i.e. what about it should the teachers know and what should be expected from the students. Also, an explanation was given about why Ikeda sensei made the 6-th kyu, concerning the fact that in Aikikai usually the first kyu is the 5-th.
Everything went in a pleasant atmosphere and the seminar ended successfully.
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