Latest information

2025 updates

 

Regular classes:

 

Thursday 7:15pm - 8:15pm (Basics)

Thursday 8:15 pm - 8:45pm (Advanced)

Saturday 10:30am - 11:30pm (Basics)

Saturday 11:30am - 12:30pm (All levels)

 

 

Ashmoor Leisure Centre

(South Devon Community College)

Balland Lane

Ashburton TQ13 7EW

 

 

Beginners:

 

We run 6 week beginners courses throughout the year.  They are £60 for six weeks of the Basics classes (i.e. 12 classes). 

 

The next beginners course starts on 6th March 2025

 

That will teach you how to fall safely, how to move with good alignment and coordinate your movemnts to use the most powerful muscles first.  You will also learn some basic techniques and should be able to get to the first level - called 5th Kyu.

 

 

Courses coming up this year:

 

Pascal DURCHON (6th Dan Aikikai) 

22nd & 23rd February 2025

 

Dimitri CRENIER (6th Dan Aikikai)

dates to be confirmed

 

 

Also - through our 'sister' club, Yokohama International Aikido Devon, there will also be a major event later this year - details to follow!

Media

Photographs of aikido and videos of aikido are inherently 'misrepresentations' of the martial art.

 

Aikido is physical - an experience - which effects us both physically and emotionally.  It is not possible to learn aikido from studying pictures or videos, though they can be very useful for reflection, and sometimes for inspiration! 

 

Having said that - feel free to click on the links to the left of this - there you will find some photos and videos of us practising, of demonstrations, and of our teachers as well as a host of YouTube links