World Championships in London

Dear all,

we are going to London to take part in the international festival held in Uxbridge from this Thursday until Sunday.

If you want to come and cheer the teams, spectator places are only £5 for the whole festival.  We have quite a few Sheffield members in both the national Shodokan Aikido UK team and British Universities team, you will recognise them:

SAUK team:
Maggy Nalaskowska
Louise Saul
Steph Gray
Celine Pagnier
James Hayton
"Big" Joe Adams
Sam Coveney
Caspar Chater
Richard Beeching
Rob "Robocop" Milliner is from York club.

British Univ:

Chu Hai Wong
Lu Zu
"Lil" Joe Price
Douwe Gelling
Simon Johanning
Charles Yuen
James Ang
This leaves Nathan and Yanin from Nottingham and Ali from Leeds

Finally, our instructor Scott is the national squad coach for both teams.

The location is Brunel University sports centre and the competition itself kicks off at 2pm this Friday.

Here's a link to the location with directions (accessible via Metropolitan line underground direct from King's Pancras, a mere 10mn walk from St Pancras where the cheapest trains from Sheffield gets to):

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/7336/campusmap.pdf

The Friday night class will still be on but Thursday night and Saturday advanced will be cancelled.

Have a great weekend and send us all your winning thoughts!

Celine