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Steve McNeil receives a well deserved 2nd dan. Steve enthusiastically teaches Combat Jujitsu in Barnstaple.
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The thing is, do you understand this?
Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros 6th Dan Aikikai at Wellsprings Aikido event Dorset  October 2019
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BAB national weapons course Brunel University 6th April 2019 I was one of three teachers
Above slideshow is of a truly excellent seminar taught by Sensei Lewis bernaldo De Quiros 6th Dan Aikikai 
Organiser and host, Sensei Mark Allcock of Wellsprings Aikido Poole.
​Charlton Down 27th and 28th October 2018

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WellspringsAikido Club hosts Sensei Lewis   -  October 2017 Dorset
​Excellent teaching, valuable learning.

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Holsworthy weapons workshop 24th September 2017
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Inaugaral meeting of Aiki Zen Ten in Taunton
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Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros 6th Dan Aikikai. Two day seminar hosted by Mark Allcock of Wellsprings Aikido in Dorset.
​Magnificent venue and enlightening teaching. Not to be missed if you want to advance your own knowledge and skills.
Friendly, purposeful, happy.  28th 29th October 2016. Look out for next year's well organised seminar !
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We progress most, when we try to please the master.
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Tai Sai organised by Wellsprings Aikido Club 2016 April 16th. Furzebrook Hall, Dorset.
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​No Christmas or New Year breaks in the training calendar this year.
​Classes as normal - brilliant and interesting !  2015/16
​Find your own spirit - join us !
New year coming .... off the couch and join us !

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Much more to the 1st suburi than you might imagine.
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How true - for any teacher.
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Sunday 25th October 2015 Group photo at
Charlton Down village hall, Dorset.
Hosted by Wellsprings Aikido,
​Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros 6th Dan Aikikai teaching.


A brilliant seminar in so many ways.
Full of amazingly clear and useful information and suitable for all levels to find their next steps.

Photos from the Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros seminar on the 24th and 25th October 2015
​hosted by Mark Allcock of Wellsprings Aikido Club.
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Sensei Geoff Flather 7th Dan of Banyu Haten demonstrates the painless way to disarm a knife attacker. (Painless for him that is !!
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Sensei Mark Allcock of Wellsprings Aikido Club Dorset taught Jo suburi hasso series with emphasis on harmony with whole body throughout each move.
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Sensei Tony Sargeant's workshop hosted by Dan Hopkins of Masakatsu Aikido Club near Exeter, Devon.
Saturday 15th August 2015
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How a ken suburi can throw light on correct grip for shiho nage
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Defying angles.
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Weapons training at Reading 14th March 2015 Reading Zenshin Aikido Club
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3rd kumitachi henka
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Group photo of the 2015 Tai sai hosted and organised by Mark Allcock of Wellsprings Aikido Club Dorset.

Moreton Hall 26th April.





The author's version of Katate Gedan Gaeshi
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Sensei Sargeant's Saint Petersburg seminar.

 Photos courtesy of Kiril
Excellent postures and intent.
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Aiki Jo Bideford is pleased to be a member.
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Nature shares all the answers but few are listening.
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Hakama take a well earned rest between classes and reflect on their learning . . . students are eating their lunch.
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"We will have one world, or we will have no world. 
We will all live together or we will die together."


More people should read and understand this.



PictureThe yin and yang of a natural 'moon gate'



“The most beautiful experience we can have 
is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands 

at the cradle of 
true art and true science.”
Albert Einstein



Slide show below features my Sensei, Tony Sargeant 6th Dan Aikiki in some early morning sunshine on
Kefalonia and teaching a Jo class on 13 Kata partner practice.
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Photo courtesy of Shirokashi Aikido Club
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Were you there? Are you still there on the path ?
   'You are your own destiny'            ​ 'Wake now, or forever stay asleep.'