Welcome to Sosei Aikido Kyokai
This unique seminar combines Aikido training, nature awareness, and wilderness survival in the natural setting of beautiful southwest Michigan.
Sensei David Rose is a 4th degree black belt in Aikido and was an Uchideshi (live in student) and Kenshusei under Shihan Fumio Toyoda. Sensei Rose has also had extensive wilderness survival training through a professional Tracker School by Tom Brown Jr.
Join us for an exciting weekend, immersing yourself in nature for aikido training, weapons practice, and introductory classes in wilderness survival. Learn the sacred order of survival: how to construct shelter, make fire, prepare water, and find food. Tired of watching all the frustrated Survivors try to make fire? Learn to make fire using a bow drill. Without water, dehydration can set in very rapidly. Learn how to find and prepare water in order to make it drinkable. Participants will learn how to make primitive drinking vessels and how to boil water using primitive techniques. Find, identify, and prepare edible and medicinal plants. Learn how to identify animal habitats, create simple traps and snares. Basic hunting and tracking techniques will be taught, as well as identification of different animals based on their tracks and other signs of their passing.
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Sosei Aikido Kyokai was formed to fill a need in the Aikido community and keep the dream of Fumio Toyoda Shihan alive of making Aikido available for everyone.
Along with Aikido, the Sosei Aikido Kyokai supports it’s own Iaido Study Group. Iaido is the practice of Japanese Swordsmanship. The study group’s main focus is on Mugai Ryu Iai Hyodo.
Sosei Aikido Kyokai is a member Organization of Tendokan Aikido International, headed by Ed Germanov Sensei, Godan and life long student of Fumio Toyoda Shihan.
The director of Sosei Aikido Kyokai is Roberto (Bob) Garza, Yondan and student of Toyoda Shihan, former member of the Aikido Association of America, The National Teaching Committee, Midwest Testing Committee and Dojo Cho, now Chief instructor at “A Center for the Martial Arts”, home of Sosei Aikido Kyokai and Soseikan Dojo in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, in the Village of Worth Illinois.
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