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Monthly Archives: January 2009
The Art of Peace: Jan.27.09
Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara All things, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they were one family. The past, present, and future are all contained in the life force. The universe emerged and developed from one source, and we evolved through the optimal process of unification and harmonization. O-Sensei (Founder…
Article: Martial Arts Training and At-Risk Youth
MiamiHerald.com recently ran an article about a martial arts teacher helping at-risk children turn their lives around through martial arts training. The teacher Newton James, apparently escaped involvement in gangs himself the same way. Newton James faced desperate times after his parents abandoned him, leaving him to care for three sisters and a brother in…
ARCHIVE – Fundraiser: Roll-A-Thon, 2009
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We need our own home again!
We’re a small group of dedicated Aikido students under the direction of Lia Suzuki Sensei. In the summer of 2007, we lost our training space on lower State Street due to an extreme rent increase. After regrouping and reorganizing, our aduts’ class came together in a temporary space at the Veterans’ Memorial Building. The kids’ class reconvened a full year later, refusing to give up hope for continued study under Suzuki Sensei.
Now, we’re a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. We’re excited and grateful to be able to be back training weekly. Our future goals are to once again have our own dedicated training space (a place where we’ll no longer have to put down and pick up tatami mats for each class), take field trips to Japan, and to hold events to benefit the community through this fantastic art that we love called Aikido – the Art of Peace.
Video: Kids Bokto Class at the Buddhist Temple
Something new and exciting for our group has been the bokto classes for kids over at the Buddhist Church. Due to not having mats to train on, we’ve been focusing only on our bokto training. The 4th through 6th graders have even moved on to kumi-tachi techniques (sword-to-sword techniques), usually reserved for adults only. They’ve…
The Role of Martial Arts Training in Gang Reduction
“You’re teaching our kids to be athletes, but are you educating and mentoring our kids? Yeah, all our kids can run up and down a damn football field, and can shoot a basket, and can jump high. But are you giving them the tools that it’s gonna take to manage the success that you’re setting…
The Art of Peace: January 6, 2009 (Nonprofit Inaugural Edition)
Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara FireFrom fire comes ashes.From ashes comes that which you determine to create.Lia SuzukiNovember 24, 2008 News We’re now a nonprofit! “Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. AKSB is dedicated to encouraging the practice of the Japanese non-violent martial art of aikido and promoting aikido as a…
From the Ashes…
In 2008, we experienced fire in Santa Barbara. People lost their homes and belongings. But in the midst of that loss, they also gained opportunities for renewal, re-creation, and gratitude…