Sarasota Aikikai 50 Year Anniversary Celebration!

Name: Sarasota Aikikai 50 Year Anniversary Celebration!
Start: 2025-03-07T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-09T11:00:00-05:00
Location: 2105 12th St, Sarasota, FL, United States, Florida 34237

Schedule

Fri, 07 Mar, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 09 Mar, 2025 at 11:00 am

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Location

2105 12th St, Sarasota, FL, United States, Florida 34237 | Sarasota, FL

Sarasota Aikikai will celebrate it’s 50 year anniversary at a very special seminar March 7-9, 2025. This will also coincide with the celebration of Sensei’s 88th birthday on that Friday, March 7th.
Saotome Sensei and Ikeda Sensei are both coming, they told me they are excited to see all their friends from the old days together once again. Joining them are two more senior instructors from the early Sarasota days: John Messores Sensei and Dan Messisco Sensei.
For those who can make it to town a day early, we will also have special pre-seminar classes in the Sarasota Dojo on Thursday night. (Seminar classes will be held in a separate venue near downtown Sarasota.) Although this is not the first location that Sensei came to in 1975, it is the location that has lasted the longest – Frank Bell established the present location of the Sarasota Aikikai 30 years ago in 1995, and it has been here ever since!
Preregistration is STRONGLY encouraged and will open soon. Stay tuned!