On April 28, 2012 I had the honor of being able to participate in an Aikido demonstration at the blossom festival here in the city of Cupertino, 40 minutes south of San Francisco.
As I mentioned in my bio, I have trained in Aikido for sometime and this is the 3rd time I’ve participated in the demonstration here, since when my dojo first started performing here.
It’s a big festival here. This particular one is in honor of the sister city relationship between Cupertino and Toyokawa (豊川市) and has been going on for a couple of decades. I’ve been living in this area for a while and I’ve never gone to this festival regularly until 3 years ago – and that was because I was a member of the dojo!
Below are a bunch of photos that I took before I had my performance.
There was Taiko
There was the giant duck pond in the park itself
The food area
No Festival is complete without beer and sake!
Arts and Crafts
Traditional music
The Aikido demo at the festival, the one of he right is my Sensei
Some Aikido black belts doing their thing.
And as a treat, I present to you my dojo’s Aikido demo:
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