Bradford Tomiki Aikido Club

Just one week to goo..Exciting!

What a line up!

BAA 60th ANNIVERSARY SEMINAR

Coaches

Bob Jones
Paul Wildish
Shaun Hoddy
Mark Aldridge
Phil Bird
Garrett Baxter
Mick Pratt
Keith McClean

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2026 National Course - British Aikido Association National Course celebrating 60 Years of the BAA. Free course for seniors and youth (12 year upwards). Demonstrations of all the Koryū no kata and Open Kata. Seminars on a wide variety of subjects presented by the senior grades in the BAA. Includes the National Dan Grading (1st Dan to 6th Dan). Regi...

This weekend we took a small but strong team to the WSAF World Championships held in Jaroslaw, Poland.

We are delighted to share that;

U10’s
Samara & Forrest - Tanto Kakarigeiko - Bronze 🥉
Mylo/Kobe/Samara - Ninindori - Gold 🥇 (New World Champions)

U13’s
James & Jake - Basic Kata - Bronze 🥉
James & Jake - Tanto Kakarigeiko - Bronze 🥉
James/Bobby/Ollie - Ninindori - Bronze 🥉

Adults:
Georgia/Robyn/Maisie - Female Team Randori - Gold 🥇

This achievement shows that wherever we go in the world we achieve, and it’s the effort by our students and parents that help us achieve this at a national and international stage.

We are so proud of our team.

The European Championships will be held in Jaroslaw, Poland in 2027 and the next World Championships will be held in Malaga, Spain 2029!

Much like modern Judo Tomiki Aikido pressure tests it effectiveness through competition.
Check out these great clips of Aikido Competition.

The most effective techniques to fight in Tomiki Aikido - part 1 We offer to your attention a new video: «The most effective techniq...

A big thank you to Garrett Baxter of Bradford Tomiki Aikido club. He came up and gave us an introduction of sports Aikido. It was great being taken out our comfort zone to see what your style is all about. We look forward to more practices together.

Awesome day today at the inaugural Bradford Randori Open. 70+ bouts of Randori, a whole lot of Ippons and a lot of fun overall.

Look out for a tonne of content from the day coming soon!

Men’s Individual;

- Micheal Eastwood 🥇
- Bradley Godsman 🥈
- Bradlee Clarkson 🥉

Women’s Individual;

- Mel Holmes 🥇
- Adeline Chanseau-Rigby 🥈
- Robyn Cummins 🥉

Team Event:

- Winners Team G (Finley Potter, Rachel Johnson, Arjun Mistry) 🥇

On the first Thursday of every month we host a Randori session open to all, these sessions focus on Randori theory, exercises, techniques and mentality.
Last night a Mick Pratt (3 time Randori World champion) took the session and gave us an insight on timing and mentality, great things to think about, every lesson we focus on this we get better!

On Saturday we took part in the 2nd British Aikido Association Northern Area Interclub Competition which was held in Bradford at Sedbergh Leisure Centre (our home) we took a total of 31 people to participate and alongside our partnered clubs Huddersfield and Wakefield our total entries were 56 mixed of juniors and seniors, next time our aim is 75 entered in a local competition!🤞🏽

Big shoutout to all the clubs that entered;

- Bradford Tomiki Aikido Club (Sedbergh)
- Bradford Tomiki Aikido Club (Kent’s)
- Dublin Tomiki Aikido Club
- Huddersfield Tomiki Aikido Club
- Wakefield Tomiki Aikido Club
- Ichiban Leeds
- Scotthall Leeds
- Yon Ju Hachi (Harrogate)
- Yon Ju Hachi (Collingham)
- Yon Ju Hachi (Garforth)

The competition was really well ran and our competitors did amazing considering it was most of their first competition! We’re looking forward to the next one!

Thursdays session was aimed to training hard for the BAA Northern Area Competition next weekend, Kata focus followed by Freeplay drills and exercises!

Finished off with our clubs national anthem, I WANT TO MAKE SOME NOOOOISE!🥋