Welcome to our Dojo Newsletter
February, 2007

• Birthday Corner
• New Students
• Student Anniversaries
• Around the Dojo
• Upcoming Events
• Calendar of Events
• Articles Page
• Karate Promotions
• Aikido Promotions
• Jodo Promotions
• Archives

Birthday Corner

Happy Birthday in February

Traci Pound, Robert Tompkins, Mary Tuccitto, Sempai Lynn Elwood,
Ben Sharifian, Akbar Khan, Emily F., Alannah L.

Welcome New Students

Please Welcome to our Dojo!

Ian Azevedo, Sam B., Alyssa P., Madison P., Chuck Pound, Traci Pound, Stuart Dawson, Michael Santoro



Good Luck in your chosen art and discipline!

Student Anniversaries

Student Anniversaries

Sempai Rob Knox, Sempai Joseph Vallejo, Casey Sullivan, Kelly Helliwell, Don Croft, Gary Campbell
Satpal Jhauj, Mary Tuccitto, Mallorie I., Brooke I., Ben Sharifian, David Eden, Adrian E.



Congratulations on completing another year in your life long discipline!

Heard Around The Dojo

More Dojo Work

We will be working at the dojo, mostly on adjusting the raised floor on Friday Feb 23rd and Saturday Feb 24th and Sunday Feb 25th starting at 7:30pm. If you can lend a hand please come out and join us.

Congratulations Carl

Congratulations to Aikido Sempai Carl Ignatius on the birth of his son. Pictured above is Bentley Carl Ignatius. He was born Sunday February 4th at 1:54pm and came in at 8 lbs 8oz at 21" in length. We know Carl will be bringing Bentley into the dojo soon to meet all of his future sempai.

Newsletter and Web site update

With the move and all the work at the new dojo, we have not had much time to get new information up on the web site. We will get to it as soon as we can. If you have any thoughts, ideas or suggestions, please email us.

The new training fees take effect February 1st, 2007. Please pick up a schedule of fees in the dojo.

For all Jodo students, the CKF - Canadian Kendo Federation membership fees are due now as well. Adults $30 and youth $25.

For all Karate-do students, the WMKA- World Matsubayashi-Ryu Karate-Do Association fees are due now. Adults $30 and youth $25

For Aikido students the IYAF - International Yoshinkai Aikido Federation foreign Instructors fund fees are also due now. Adults $30 and youth $25

We have Moved

We have moved the dojo to 1652A Bayly Street (Brock and Bayly) and we opened for classes Monday January 15th, 2007.

DVDs Now Available

We now have available DVDs of all previous Dojo events, including your last kyu or dan test. Please order from the dojo or email the dojo.

Renseikan Dojo Crests

The Renseikan Dojo Crests are now available at the dojo. They can be used in many ways, on your dogi it should go on the left side, over your heart.

Upcoming Events

Click on any of the upcoming events listed below to learn more:
Aikido Hajime Class and Shinbokukai
Karate Friendship Night
CKF Jodo seminar - AYC Toronto
Adult Mid-Winter Party

Adult Winter Party

We are celebrating the end of Winter on Saturday March 3rd. The Adult party will be at the home of Michelle Stronach (map and detail are at the dojo). It is a Pot-Luck party so please sign up early. The party is open to all adult students and their spouses and parents of our children students.

Aikido Hajime Class

On Wednesday February 21st we will be doing our "Hajime" training in the adult Aikido class. "Hajime" means to begin and we will be doing techniques rapidly on that command. It is an excellent cardio workout as well as an excellent training tool. When you must react quickly over and over to a command, you have no time to think about what you are going to do - you can only do. That is important in the martial arts. Be sure not to miss this class. After the class we will hold our Shinbokukai (Friendship event) at a local restaurant or in the dojo.

Karate Friendship Night

We would like to invite any karate-ka who practice Matsubyashi-Ryu to join us for the last Thursday of every month. After a good warm-up of kihon (basics) we start kata practice and sometimes also add Bunkai (application) and Yakusoku Kumite (pre-arranged sparring) practice to the evening. Our dojo is open to all, regardless of rank or associations. This is a non-political dojo and a fun night of training together in the true spirit of Nagamine Shoshin Sensei's Karate-Do. If you are interested in joining us please contact us for directions and times or feel free to drop in for the 8:45pm adult class on the last Thursday of each month. The next Kata night is Thursday February 22nd.

Events Calendar for 2007

2007 Calendar of Events

Karate Promotions

Please see the Archives for past promotions.

Aikido Promotions

Please see the Archives for past promotions.

Jodo Promotions

Please see the Archives for past promotions.