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Aikido'Ka

Grass Valley's Family Martial Arts School -- Focus, Fitness & Fun

Mark Zwagerman

Nov 23 2015

Choose Your Own Adventure Seminar

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With Senseis Michael Friedl, Frank Bloksberg, Mark Zwagerman

 We’ll be working on what you want to study, addressing your personal aikido challenges. We will be training, not talking!

When you sign up online, just tell us what you want to work on. We’ll take questions at the seminar, too.

What We’ll Be Working on During This Seminar . . .

You’ll be working on whatever you want. Come to the seminar with your most pressing aikido questions and challenges and we’ll do our best to help you through them. Or, train on the techniques you enjoy the most. Or just show up and see what happens.

We will all meet with the same goal: Helping each other succeed in our training, enjoy our practice and build friendships. After the seminar, you should be a long way to overcoming your aikido challenges, — or, at least, understanding how to ultimately answer your questions and overcome those challenges. And, you will have had a great time.

The Choose Your Own Adventure Seminar is an experiment. We’ve never held a seminar like this before. Here’s the plan right now (if it doesn’t work, we’ll change it): Before the seminar, we will collect everyone’s questions so that we have an idea of what people want to work on. If there’s a particular theme to the questions, then we’ll address that theme at the beginning of the seminar.

As nage, you will work on the techniques and/or principles you want to work on. As uke, you will do your best for your partner’s technique/principle study. Michael, Frank and Mark Senseis will work with you to answer your questions. Keeping an open mind and giving your best training effort will lead to everyone having a terrific time and learning a lot.

For more information and to register for the Choose Your Own Adventure Seminar, click here!

 

 

Written by Frank Bloksberg · Categorized: seminars · Tagged: aikido seminar, Choose Your Own Adventure Seminar, Frank Bloksberg, Mark Zwagerman, Michael Friedl

Jul 19 2015

Aiki Summer Retreat — Photo of All Instructors

At Aiki Summer Retreat, we had a fair number of instructors. Each day, we had our featured instructors, Senseis Michael Friedl, Kimberly Richardson, Danielle Smith and Craig Fife. We also had instructors for our 7 – 8 am classes — Senseis Forrest Kan, Johnny Newsome, Chuck Hauk, Calvin Koshiyama, and Darrel Berlie. These senior instructors taught and mentored along with Frank Bloksberg (me), Michele Simone, Mark Zwagerman, Erik Haag, Jeramy Hale, Molly Molly Sacco Hale, Sara G Snell, and Mark Kruger.

What a blast!

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Written by Frank Bloksberg · Categorized: Aiki Summer Camp · Tagged: Aiki Summer Retreat, Calvin Koshiyama, Chuck Hauk, Craig Fife, Danielle Smith, Darrel Berlie, Erik Haag, Forrest Kan, Frank Bloksberg, Jeramy Hale, Johnny Newsome, Kimberly Richardson, Mark Kruger, Mark Zwagerman, Michael Friedl, Michele Simone, Molly Molly Sacco Hale, Sara G Snell

Feb 13 2014

Video – Aikido Weapons Practice in Grass Valley: Bokken Yokomenuchi

Mark Zwagerman is teaching weapons at Aikido’Ka until Jane returns in April.

Here Mark demonstrates the strike yokomenuchi with a bokken. Note the concentration on keeping connection with our partner’s center line.

Aikido is largely based upon sword movements. If you really want to improve your aikido, practice weapons! And, as an added benefit, weapons practice is tremendous fun.

Written by Frank Bloksberg · Categorized: Training, Videos · Tagged: bokken, Mark Zwagerman, video, yokomenuchi

Dec 06 2013

Mark Zwagerman Weapons Class

Mark Zwagerman taking ukemi. Photo by Beau Sanders.
Mark Zwagerman taking ukemi. Photo by Beau Sanders.

Mark Zwagerman joined Aikido’Ka this summer, when he moved to Grass Valley from Santa Cruz. Mark was awarded his sandan (third degree black belt) by Linda Holiday Sensei.

Mark is a remarkable aikidoist with exceptional ukemi skills. (He’s also a great guy!)

Mark will be teaching his first official class on Thursday, December 12, from 5:30 – 7:00. The class will emphasize weapons.

Please join us and make it a party!

Photo by Beau Sanders.

Written by Frank Bloksberg · Categorized: Training · Tagged: Mark Zwagerman, weapons class

Dec 06 2013

Please Join Us for Our Holiday Seminar and Testing

Holiday Seminar
Saturday, December 14, 2013

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Please join us for our Holiday Seminar on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at Aikido’Ka.

We’ll have a blast training and then having kyu demonstrations. Here’s the schedule:

10:00 Asia Currie
10:45 Mark Zwagerman
11:30 Frank Bloksberg
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Asia Currie
2:00 Mark Zwagerman
2:30 Frank Bloksberg
3:00 Kyu Demonstrations

After the demonstrations are completed, we’ll have a potluck/get together.

So . . . train, laugh, smile, practice, visit, laugh, train, sweat, smile, demonstrate, eat, drink, watch demonstrations, and generally just have a good time with friends.

Mark Zwagerman joined Aikido’Ka this summer, when he moved to Grass Valley from Santa Cruz. Mark was awarded his sandan (third degree black belt) by Linda Holiday Sensei. Linda Holiday Sensei is Chief Instructor of Aikido of Santa Cruz. Mark is a remarkable aikidoist with exceptional ukemi skills. (He’s also a great guy!) In his classes, Mark will teach how to dramatically improve your understanding of ukemi. We are absolutely thrilled that Mark has joined Aikido’Ka and is teaching during our Holiday Seminar.

We really look forwarding to seeing you.

The picture of Mark Zwagerman is taken by Beau Sanders. The photo is used with Beau’s permission.

REGISTER FOR THE HOLIDAY SEMINAR HERE.

Written by Frank Bloksberg · Categorized: seminars, testing · Tagged: Asia Currie, Frank Bloksberg, Mark Zwagerman, Potluck, testing

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