Epsom and Ewell Aikido Club was established in the late 1950s and teaches a fast-paced style of contact Aikido that lends itself to self-defense.
Even a relative beginner will soon learn how to deal with an attacker throwing a punch or trying to grasp their body or clothing. More advanced grades are trained to deal with multiple attackers and learn how to defend themselves against a variety of weapons.
Aikido techniques offer a number of ways of dealing with an attacker who can be projected away or taken to the floor and held down.
Whilst the emphasis is on effective self defense, we still like to have fun and regular training will help develop your physical fitness and well being.While we cannot promise to make you invulnerable to attack, even a basic knowledge of the self defense techniques employed in Aikido will boost confidence and assertiveness in everyday situations. The large range of defense techniques offers a high degree of flexibility in deciding how much force is used to subdue an attacker. We find this aspect attracts students from many walks of life including medical and emergency services personnel.
The style of Aikido has it’s roots in Yoshinkan but the club has always been open minded in it’s approach to other styles and willingness to learn from other styles of Aikido and incorporate different techniques or exercises that offer an improvement or different way of thinking.
During the pandemic we introduced more weapon-against-weapon training into our practice, including Jo and Bokken (staff and sword). This sits nicely alongside more traditional weapons-taking techniques that have been part of our syllabus for the last 30 or 40 years.
We train in Judo style suits, but beginners can start off wearing a t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms until they decide to enroll fully. If you are interested, you are welcome to come and watch, but we are currently offering the first lesson for free so there is nothing to lose by joining in. After the free lesson, there is no obligation to join but we hope that you do and lessons can be paid for monthly or in exceptions on a per-session basis. We own our mats and keep our overhead costs to a minimum so that we can maintain our fees at rates which are as reasonable as possible.
Established 1958 by Sensei D.G Weir, the club has been training for more than 60 years.
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Last updated: 22 Mar 2024