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2025 updates
Regular classes:
Monday 7:30pm - 9:30pm (Advanced) (on pause for the moment)
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 (7th Dan)
21st & 22nd February 2026
Anton CORONELLI (6th Dan Aikikai)
June 2026 (Date to be confirmed).
Dimitri CRENIER (6th Dan Aikikai)
October 2026 (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!
Our teacher's teachers
Pascal Durchon (5th Dan Aikikai)
Pascal has been an extrordinary influence on the development of the Brighton Aikikai, and the aikido of it's practicioners and teachers. The teachers have come and gone, but Pascal has continued, for almost 30 years now, to visit Brighton and humour us and inspire and move us with his technical skill, kindness and inspiring presentations on the principles of aikido. This November he visits South Devon Aikikai!
Christian Tissier (7th Dan Aikikai)
One of the most influential aikidoka alive today. The technical director of the FFAAA, with a membership of around 35,000 practioners, it is difficult to overstate his impact on the world of aikido. A personal student of Yamaguchi Sensei for over 30 years, he studied Aikido, Kick Boxing and Kenjutsu in Japan for seven years before returning to France to develop the FFAAA.
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