We have just wrapped up our 17th Anniversary seminar weekend, now we just have to have the formal photo tonight: 1 Oct at the Burnside dojo, be there at 7.20pm.

It was a long busy weekend, but really enjoyable! Great to see so many people from Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland, and Alex Freddo from Brisbane. Who didn't pick on Freddo? A huge thanks to everyone for coming, training, and teaching.

There are a selection of photos in our aikido picture gallery from Saturday (day 2) and Sunday (day 3). We're after more photos to go online, particularly Irene and Garry's Friday night classes (day 1) and Simon's outdoor weapons class. Contact Andrew or James if you have some.

If you want to file your own event report then email them to website@aikido-chch.co.nz, it would get great to compile the different perspectives from beginners to seniors, visitors and locals. You can include photos from our picasaweb gallery.

The highlight for me was definitely seeing people throw themselves around during Kevin's class... and yes... some of that was caught on camera.