Welcome to our video page!

This page shows some of the videos on our club YouTube Channel.  The most recent video is of our three teenage heroes competing in the BAA Nationals in Dartford, having only just graded to 6th Kyu (White Belt):

These videos are also about the “thinking” side of aikido, which we quite like!  There is so much in aikido about developing yourself as a person.  It helps you build your confidence and self-esteem and it develops the art of introspection: looking inside ourselves to see the things we need to improve.

During the Coronavirus lockdowns we weren’t able to meet together in the dojo, so this clip looks at Creating Your Own Dojo Headspace at home or at work:

One of the things which stops us all from making the progress in aikido that we’d like to achieve is the skills we all learn from an early age called procrastination and prevarication.  Basically they mean putting off till tomorrow the things we could do today (recognise that one if you have children?), and finding lots of good reasons for not going to your aikido training when it’s cold/wet/dark/etc!

And this longer clip (17 minutes) is an exploration of the five different levels of consciousness that become part of a student’s lifetime aikido journey – The Five Minds of Aikido: