Aikido Hokuryukai - North York Aikido Club

We’d like to thank all the participants for joining us at the 2026 CAF Summer Camp in Toronto.
The quality of a camp depends not just on having a great instructor like Osawa-sensei, but on having dedicated, enthusiastic participants of all levels on the tatami.
From that point of view, camp was a great success!
Some photos of the classes are available online:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tjnpgzmRTCERjxDW8
Have a great summer and hope to see you all in Squamish in October.
On behalf of the organizers:
- Aikido Hokuryukai
- Aikido Kensankai
- Aikido Tendokai
- JCCC Aikikai

Promotion certificates arrived last week for our instructors: Aubrie Appel, sandan; Igor Sitartchouk, yondan, Tom Lindsey, godan; and Jim Barnes, nanadan. The journey continues!

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the Canadian Aikido Federation for recognizing Yumi Nakamura-shihan's lifetime of commitment to Canadian Aikido with the Kawahara Shihan Award for Outstanding Contribution.

It was an honour for me to receive the award on her behalf from CAF President Steve Erickson at the CAF Summer Camp in Toronto.

Being able to accept it in person in front of so many of her friends and students at Summer Camp was deeply meaningful to me.

I know that Yumi would have been overwhelmed by this recognition and great display of affection.

Below, some students from Aikido Tendokai and Aikido Hokuryukai commemorated the occasion.

Summer camp is here… Osawa-sensei's in town! We took him downtown for a tour of the AGO and lunch before classes start tomorrow.

See you there!

Just wrapped: the International Aikido Seminar with Osawa-sensei in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Many thanks to Manolo Garcia and his colleagues for an oustanding event. Shown: Canadian content… six of us were there!

Many thanks to JCCC Aikikai for sharing their dojo space for this great event!

Congratulations to Eduard on his promotion to sandan! The ukes included Moises, l. and Vadim, r.

The deadline for the preregistration discount is tomorrow, May 2!
https://aikido.wufoo.com/forms/zj0h3ng0ttyt4a/