March Course and Gradings.

The 19th March will see in the first course and gradings of the year. Sensei Riley will be teaching the course throughout the day whilst examinations are taking place on a separate mat. This is the first course Sensei Riley has conducted in quite some time, due to guest instructors teaching at most of the 2005 courses, so it will make a pleasant change to have Sensei Riley to ourselves for a whole day.

There are San-Dan & Yon-dan gradings also taking place on the day.

If you are taking examination, your name must have been by the 5th March 2006.

If you missed this deadline then you must now wait until the next official course and grading day.

April Seminar.

On the 9th of April Sensei Riley is to teach a course at Seaburn Leisure centre in Sunderland, hosted by the kobukan. There may be a class the day before (8th April) at Durham, however that is yet to be confirmed. I am sure there will be at least a couple of cars going up to Sunderland so if you don't have your own transport, please ask if there are any spaces in any of the cars.

Website.

I apologise for the website been inactive for the past few weeks. It was a technical issue which delayed the usual updates of the site.

New Features

The new features on the website are designed to give you all easier and more convenient navigation throughout what is now a very large site indeed. These features include:

Additional Navigation Bar
Ask Sensei Page
Suggestions Page
Direct Debit Poll
Courses Info

A brief description of each:

Additional Navigation Bar.

This bar contains, Contents, Video Clips, Link to Us, Webstore, Guest Book, Courses, Forum.
This is to aid everyone to navigate to all the areas of the website.

Ask Sensei Page.

This page is dedicated to everyone who wishes to ask any Sensei within the White Rose Aikikai advice or questions relating to Aikido or their personal development. Please feel free to ask any questions you wish to the Sensei's.
If you do not wish for your question(s) to be published on the public domain then please specify this at the end of your question.

Suggestions Page.

This page is for any suggestions you may have relating to the Association and Website.

Direct Debit Poll.

This feature is to assist the association seniors in coming to a decision regarding the introduction of a Direct Debit/Standing order system to enable students to pay thier mat fees and membership via Direct Debit/Standing Order.
your vote will be of great assistance to the association and it's seniors.

Courses Page.

This page is dedicated to keeping you informed of future courses other than the one advertised on the homepage. I have yet to get more info for this page however the lastest info is on there.

I hope these features will be of use to you all.

The printable version of this newsletter will not be available until next month so please look at the previous newsletters section around that time.

Ma-ai DVD.

Sensei Riley has ordered some more copies of the association DVD and should have them in the next couple of weeks. If you are requiring a copy then see Sensei Riley or Ashley and one will be set aside for you.

Dan Grade Interviews.

Due to the technical difficulties with the website, Janet Hajdysz' interview will not be available until next month.
I apologise for the inconvienience this has caused.

New Members.

It has been brought to our attention that some new members are buying thier own Gi's from various different places.

This is no problem, however, the association does provide Gi's at a discounted price so for those who have not yet purchased a Gi, please see either Ashley or Mark Danford and we will obtain one for you.

Newsletter By Ashley Scholefield.

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