Applying Principles to Technique

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Please join us for an Aikido'Ka first -- Chuck Hauk and Daryl Berlie Senseis from Eugene, Oregon. You are in for a treat. Hauk and Berlie Senseis are two of the finest instructors around, along with being absolutely first-rate people. You will enjoy yourself and learn a tremendous amount at this seminar. Please join us!

The difference between your current aikido and your future, superb aikido is your continuing to  learn and apply the basic principles which underlie all of your technique. On top of your ever-stronger understanding of basics, you will add more-and-more sophisticated principles. At this seminar, you will explore not only basic principles, but advanced concepts which will dramatically improve your understanding of how and why to practice aikido.

How to truly open up – becoming vulnerable – so that you create the opportunity for efficient, effective technique.

The power of your “Back Body.” The beauty of “throwing elbows and hand blades.” How integrating your presentation with your uke’s attack enables you to easily apply aikido principles.

Understanding and applying the magic of the rear quadrants.

In our last class, we’ll bring it all together and apply these principles to weapons (particularly knife practice).

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Chuck Hauk, 6th Dan, is the dojo-cho (chief instructor) of Aikido of Eugene.

Hauk Sensei began his martial arts training in 1970, studying Shotokan Karate under Blake Okimoto Sensei in Claremont, California. He began his Aikido training in 1977 at Pasadena Aikikai under Gene Anderson Sensei, while regularly training also with Francis Takahashi Sensei at Alhambra Aikikai.

In 1979, he was a student of Frank McGouirk Sensei during the founding of Aikido Ai of Southern California. In 1980, he moved to Eugene and soon thereafter assisted Glenn Bluestone Sensei (former uchideshi to Mitsugi Saotome Shihan) in opening and operating a new school in Eugene called “Aikido Northwest.”

In 1987, Hauk Sensei began a long association with Tom Read Sensei, Chief Instructor of Northcoast Aikido in Arcata, California, and former student of the late Michio Hikitsuchi Shihan (Judan, 10th degree black belt) in Japan. During this period, Hauk Sensei assisted his long-time training partner, Daryl Berlie Sensei, in teaching Aikido classes at the University of Oregon Aikido Club.

Having known Frank Doran Shihan since 1978, Hauk Sensei formally became his student in 2002, coinciding with becoming Chief Instructor for Aikido of Eugene. Hauk Sensei currently holds the rank of Rokudan (6th degree black belt) from the Aikikai Foundation, Aikido World Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan. This rank was awarded to him by Frank Doran Shihan, Nanadan (7th degree black belt), California Aikido Association Division II head and Chief Instructor of Aikido West in Redwood City, California.

Daryl Berlie Sensei, 6th Dan, is an unheralded genius of aikido. Far few people are familiar with Berlie Sensei's teaching. When he taught a class at Aiki Summer Retreat 2016, he was the talk of the Retreat. His power, kindness, and vulnerability were on full display.

To Berlie Sensei, aikido training is the study of vulnerability and its relationship to love and fear-based behavior patterns. Be prepared to work on some of the most interesting, moving, and advanced aikido concepts you will ever encounter.

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Aikido'Ka
142 East McKnight Way
Grass Valley, CA 95949
(530) 273-2727