Lancaster Aikido Club

This is a great aikido club - I discovered Lancaster Aikido in autumn 2018 and I travel from Cumbria to train each Sunday with them. The instructors Steve, Aaron, Ellie and Keith are great and the venue is really good. Training is friendly and fun, but focused and martial. All are welcome - and most certainly made welcome. Very recommended.

So I was training on my own with no teacher as mine had retired. A friend mentioned Lancaster Aikido Club in a conversation because they were hosting an international teacher who was to be someone I shouldn’t miss. I was so welcomed by this group of strangers that I was at a loss for words. The teacher of the seminar was indeed phenomenal and from that weekend in 2013 became my teacher. From 2013 I have attended over 20 events that Lancaster Aikido Club have put on and still find the club to ...

I started as a complete beginner and am proud to be an instructor at the club now. We teach a very high quality of Traditional Takemusu Iwama Aikido in the lineage of Morihiro Saito Sensei and O Sensei. Beginners are welcomed and supported throughout their development (as I was) and all classes are suitable for new starters or advanced practitioners. We train a Japanese system of self defence that employs weapons and empty handed elements to develop a coordinated and balanced martial artis...

A great club to train at with strong understanding and training in Aikido. We are a group based in West Midlands and happy to make the long journey to Lancaster to train together with like minded great people.