If members want to buy Lancashire Aikikai club badges then ask your club official to contact Mr. Mucha They cost £1.50 each.

Following the item in the last newsletter about dangerous exercises an example of one such exercise is illustrated and explained. The standing straight leg toe touch is widely practised in all types of sports. It is also considered the world's most dangerous exercise!

When doing this exercise you have a perfect / opportunity to ask the THREE. BIG QUESTIONS:

1 Why am I doing this exercise? To stretch my hamstrings? To stretch my back? To strengthen my back?
2 Is it potentially dangerous? Yes I may damage my spine and if I bounce to touch my toes I may also tear hamstring or back extensor muscles damage supporting ligaments and compress the intervertebral discs.
3 Are there SAFE alternatives? YES Hydrostatic disc pressure is least when you are lying flat. Your body is totally relaxed when you are fully supported by the floor and as a result your stretch potential is greatly increased. Standing and also seated toe touching causes total body tension rather than relaxation. Only fully relaxed muscles can be stretched safely and with control.

Recent Gradings

CONGRATULATlONS to the following members on their gradings

Gradings
Weapons Gradings
Part I Teaching Certificate (29.9.94) & Full Teaching Certificate (28.11.94)
Grading details etc were published in the paper version - Not published online under Data Protection Provisions

New Grading Fees
In future the cost of gradings will be
6th, 5th and 4th Kyu £3
3rd and 2nd Kyu £4
1st Kyu £6
1st Dan £10
2nd Dan £15
3rd Dan £20
4th Dan £25

There will be no change of membership fees
A full teaching certificate will cost £10

The editor of the newsletter is Lawrence Robinson 30 Crossfield Drive, Worsley, Manchester M28 1GP Tel 061 790 3500 lf anybody has anything they want to include in the next newsletter please send it to him. Details of gradings and your club's progress and
activities ought to be sent as a matter of course.

Course Dates 1995
The next course dates are:

5th February General Chorley 10:30 am start
2nd April Weapons Chorley 10.30 an start
14th May General Chorley 10.30 am start
18th June General Altrincham 10.30 am start
10th September General Chorley 10:30 am start
15th October Weapons Chorley 10:30 am start
26th November General Chorley 10:30 am start

Course fees are £8 for members; and £10 for visitors with concessions for the unwaged For further details contact the Principal of the Aikikai Mr Mucha 65 Aspen Way, Skelmersdale, WN8 8QJ. Tel-0695 25045.

There are opportunities to study more weapons practise at the Chorley club and you are invited to attend by Mr. Mucha the Principal of the Lancashire Aikikai on these dates:

4th February
13th May
9th September
25th November
All classes start at 2:30 pm Saturdays

Teaching Courses

Mr. Spence is running a two Weekend course for those who hold Part I of the teaching certificate at the Chorley venue. Dates are:

11th March - Sat 2.30 pm start
12th March - Sun 9.30 am start

23rd Sept. - Sat 2.30 pm start
24th Sept. - Sun 9 30 am start

All will finish at teatime.

CHRISTMAS TRIVIA QUIZ

Absolutely nothing to do with Aikido but see how many questions you can answer without looking at the solutions provided.

1. In Japan What Would you do on a futon?
2. What do we call dice that are marked with the 6 highest ranks of cards?
3. The 4 corners of a Monopoly board are Go, Go to jail, Jail and what?
4. Name the town that Dad's Army protect?
5. In the 60's TV series who sang the soundtrack to Rawhide?
6. What item is the 1090 of the Legal and General insurance company?
7. What links Elton John to the land of Oz?
8. In WW 2 who were the first allied power to enter Berlin?
9. What year Has Prince Charles born?
10. In Italy shore are 2 independent States surrounded by Italian soil - The Vatican is one, What is the other?
11. What type of S. African antelope shares it's name with a famous footwear company?
12. The Manchester Giants are leaders in which sport?
13. The height of a horse is measured in hands, how many inches to a hand??
14. Gallophobia is an irrational fear of What?
15. How much did Phileas Fogg wager to get round the World in 80 days?
16. The mixing of a solute and a solvent gives you a What?
17, What source of energy does a heliograph use to send messages in Morse code?
18. What is shared by a set of concentric circles?
19. On the Ordnance Survey Land Ranger series of maps what does the symbol PH represent?
20. Name the actor that links the TV series Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire.
21. Where do arboreal creatures live?
22. Write down the letters of the Phonetic alphabet that are names of dances.
23. In the bible What word means So be it'?
24. BT's prefix for freefone numbers is 0800. What is the prefix for the Mercury network?
25. The Royal Highland Regiment is also known as what?
26. Re?arrange 'cashers there' to give you a famous John Wayne film.
27. Woodstock is little bird friend of which cartoon character?
28. There are 3 counties in England with west in their names: W.Yorkshire, W.Midlands; and What else?
29. There are 4 months of the year named after Latin numbers: Oct, Nov and Dec. What is the other one?
30. If you sail due west from anywhere in Ireland What country would you hit?
31. Harrison Ford plays Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger. Name the film before that in which he played the same character.
32. In Nautical terms what is the opposite of leeward?
33. In clothing what are batwing and leg of mutton type of?
34. What was the surname of Mary Queen of Scots?
35. Name the TV soap star that has an album out called lime for Love.
36. Apart from S. Africa which other African country plays official Test Cricket?
37. What male name connects the old TV series with the Queen Mother?
38. How many pairs of legs does a crab have (first pair modified to act as pincers)?
39. A straight line that Joins any 2 points on the circumference of a circle is a what?
40. Pluvious insurance is taken out to protect against what?

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The BURY AIKIDO club now has a canvas mat to practice on!! It is used An the nor slot on Wednesday night at 8.OO pm till 10.00 pm, instead of Tuesday, and is situated in the gymnasium, SeedfieId Leisure Centre, Parkinson Street, Bury (not far from Bury Hospital For further information contact Graham Harrison

Some students have been asking what we say in Japanese when taking the bows

At the beginning of the class we say to Sensei "onegai shimasu" (pronounced as on-ee-gai-shim-ass) and this means ''Let us practise'.

At the end of a class we say "domo arigato gozaimashita sensei" (pronounced as domo-ariga-to gozai-mashte) and is a very polite meaning of 'Thank you'.