Ikazuchi Dojo

On Saturday, November 13th, Ikazuchi Dojo held its first post-pandemic seminar. Ray Feliciano Sensei (Chief Instructor of Maru Dojo in San Francisco and Pasadena Aikikai) shared a range of techniques and weapon disarms, as well as a fascinating series of leg locks / pins as follow-ups to traditional aikido throws. We hope you enjoy the photos from the event!

On Saturday, November 13th, Ikazuchi Dojo held its first post-pandemic seminar. Ray Feliciano Sensei (Chief Instructor of Maru Dojo in San Francisco and Pasadena Aikikai) shared a range of techniques and weapon disarms, as well as a fascinating series of leg locks / pins as follow-ups to traditional aikido throws.

Some photos from our October kyu test.

Looking forward to welcoming students from this new program to Ikazuchi Dojo!

A Next-Generation Program for the First-Generation — Budo Accelerator We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with UC Irvine. Starting September 29th, we’ll be running a new program for first-generation college students led by Josh Gold, the CEO of Budo Accelerator, and Michael Dennin, the Vice Provost and Dean of the Department of Undergraduate Education a...

It was great to have Bobby Roe from Seattle join us for class today at Ikazuchi Dojo. He's a student of Bruce Bookman Sensei's Tenzan Aikido in Seattle - one of our favorite places.

It's nice to see dojos opening up again and the aikido community reconnecting in person.

Busy weekend at Ikazuchi Dojo!

Kali class with Mark Cheng, Indoor/outdoor aikido with Josh Gold (20 students in attendance), Anastasia Shuba led a falling workshop as part of a new training program for BASE jumpers, Budo Accelerator ran a session of its leadership academy for 50 teens from around North America with guest speaker Hamilton Chu, a legendary leader in the video game world (Producer of Halo and Halo 2, Exec Producer of Hearthstone at Blizzard, CEO of Second Dinner), and we did final preparations for the launch of Aikido Journal's new course on T.K. Chiba.

First class for fully vaccinated students on Friday night!