This is the regular mid year weekend seminar & grading for the Aikido Shinryukan Otago. The weather provided a “warm” welcome to Dunedin for visiting instructors Andrew williamson and Kevin Allan – snow, sleet and bitterly cold. Unfortunately Andrew’s flight was delayed (by ice in Dunedin) and he didn’t arrive to early afternoon. Fortunately Kevin had driven down on Friday and stepped in to take the morning classes. Despite the weather the training was fun. Approximately 20 students attended the seminar including Erick Haynes and Jo Vanderlaan from Chrishtchurch.

On Sunday morning we held the grading – 8 students graded ranging from rokkyu to nikyu. The standard was high.