Perry's Photo Box

Vancouver Japanese Budo Demo

A few years back I heard - through the martial arts grape-vine - that an amazing collection of Japanese senseis and students from a variety of Japanese martial arts were coming to Vancouver to give a highly unpublicized demonstration. After a number of phone calls and some pulling (figuratively) of teeth, a good friend of mine was able to find out the near-secret location and date (some big auditorium at the PNE I believe... he only knew about the demo because a friend of his from Japan was participating.) Anyways, I popped over and - when not too awed by the demo or stuck to steps by bubble gum - took a few pics.

(The usual... click on the small thumbnail image to download a larger and colour version)

Here is some of the aikido demo with Ichihashi Sensei and some senior students from the Aikikai Hombu dojo:

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And one from the other demos (I took more but haven't processed them yet!)

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As To Copyright...

I'm not going to chase anyone down for using these photos for non-profit use - especially in the promotion of Aikido. (However, bad karma may follow you if you don't give credit where it's due!) If you intend to use any of these images in any form for profit of any sort... that is another story. Please contact me before doing so... I'm a usually a very generous and reasonable person when asked nicely.