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Ukemi on concrete floor. The returning


Daily Mail. Meet the pole-dancing pensioner

Photojournalist Vladimir Yakovlev created photo series, The Age Of Happiness, to promote positive ageing. He met a figure skater, dancers, skydiving fanatics, martial artists and a club DJ in their 70s, 80s and 90s.

Meanwhile, in Novosibirsk, Russia, an Aikido group of over-60s includes Nina Melnikova, 73, and Antonina Kulikova, 73, who’ve been practicing the Japanese martial art for seven years.

The women train twice a week for around three hours a session and perform highly complex throws and pins.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2908170/Meet-pole-dancing-pensioner-Woman-62-took-sexy-sport-strengthen-bones-competes-world.html


White Owl Year


Gozo Shioda Sensei on questchannel


Aikido in films


II Siberian Yoshinkan Aikido Festival. Vitaliy Podobaev enbu


Bokken. Yoshinkan Aikido seminar. “Novosibirsk Expo Centre”. 2014


Siberia Osaku Saiten. Kumi jo

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Andrey Podoynikov Sensei on II Siberian Yoshinkan Aikido Festival

Uke: Yuriy Poletaev and Vitaliy Podobaev

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Aikido techniques from morote mochi grab

Irkutsk city, march 2014