Birankai North America Summer Camp is here! Amazing weather, a beautiful campus and dynamic training here at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y. Day One got camp off to a great start with Patti Lyons Sensei of Bucks County Aikido leading an action-packed class. Good thing the dojo is air-conditioned…
Make sure to check the BiranOnline channel on Youtube for new videos as camp continues.
A reminder to Birankai members at camp to pick up their new copies of Biran, our organization’s print newsletter. This summer’s issue features, among other great articles:
- Archie Champion Sensei on ukemi
- George Lyons Sensei on testing
- Yoko Okamoto Sensei on the three teachers who shaped her Aikido
- Liese Klein Sensei on our connection to Hombu Dojo in Tokyo
- Sarah Kaylor on the meaning behind the indigo-blue color of our hakamas
- An update on the Chiba Sensei biography project
- Info on the upcoming Instructors’ Intensive in the Midwest
- A report on the Paul Sylvain Sensei 20th Anniversary memorial seminar
Pick up your dojo’s copies here at camp and appreciate anew the writing skill and thoughtfulness of our Birankai community. We can throw down and write poetry, too!