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I hope that you all felt fully satisfied by your Thanksgiving holiday!   Important Dates to Note:   Saturday, December 9 – the 10:15 to noon class will be cancelled to encourage everyone to attend the seminar with Juba Nour Sensei at San Diego Aikikai.  See flyer in the dojo.  If you have not experienced Nour

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October was a busy month with the focus on Alex Peterson Sensei’s seminar.  Thank you all for the work you put into making it a success and especially to Jan and Joanne who put their heads together and found the perfect gift for him, a copy of Sun Tzu’s ’The Art of War’.  It was

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In September Sabrina, Rosa, Mara and myself flew to NM to attend the Women’s Friendship Seminar that had been organized by Kristina Varjan Shihan.  This was the third camp to be organized for women, the first two were in the early 90’s at the instigation of Chiba Sensei.  But this one was a little different

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North County Aikikai will be hosting a seminar the weekend of October 13-15, with Alex Peterson 6th Dan Shidoin. Click here for more information.   Facebook Like n Tweet Widget n Google Plus One n

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We are all back from Summer Camp and the consensus seems to be that it was a particularly good one!  Our special thanks go to Jan, Julian and Joanne who put in a tremendous amount of work and time prior to camp to ensure that it ran smoothly.  Our teachers this year were a core

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Here we are in July, and Summer Camp approaching fast, July 26 through July 31.  I am very pleased to see that our dojo has the second largest group of students attending camp this year of all the Birankai dojos.  This being said, we will not be left with sufficient teachers to cover all our

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The energy generated from Frank Apodaca Sensei’s seminar was impressive!  I think that everyone enjoyed it immensely and it was a pleasure to see so many people from out of town.  Thank you all for your many contributions that helped make this a success.    Onward now to Summer Camp and a reminder that EARLY

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We are already well into April and I will be off to Japan in a couple of days, Wednesday, April 12th.  I hope to take you along with me on this adventure through the dojo Facebook page and intend to take lots of photos. I am being trained to use Facebook before I leave!!  I

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