Leave yourself around 20 minutes to familiarize yourself with the space, change into your gi and to be ready before class. Do not be late as it is not polite nor is it a good idea to miss the warm-ups at the start of class that prepare you for practice. Please use no-one else’s zori but yours.īeing on time is important. Remove your zori (heels towards mat) when you enter the tatami (training mats). When you enter, you remove your shoes and use your zori to walk around in the dojo. For the trial class we will lend you a bokken (wooden sword).īring a pair of slippers or zori. Please arrive at the desk near the dojo entrance 15 minutes prior to beginning of the class, and bring a white martial arts uniform (gi) or sports clothing with long sleeves and that covers your legs entirely. Please email us before coming to the dojo, as we have a limit the number of participants due to Covid-19 health measures. You can take a free trial class once, any Saturday (1:00pm – 2:00pm) or Wednesday (5:30pm – 6:30pm). To discover what iaido practice can bring you will take more than one class and we encourage you to judge for yourself, to watch a class, or even better to take a free trial class. If you do not have an iaito, we can lend you a bokken (wooden sword) until you get one.įor a complete list of fees and equipment, click here. As for the iaito (steel-bladed sword), we encourage you to get one relatively soon to deepen your practice.
After a first trial class, it is necessary to only wear a white gi (judo or karate style) but if you continue a hakama (skirt-pants worn by the samourai class) will be necessary.
Beyond physical exercise, iaido demands intense mental concentration.ĭuring the introductory period you have access to two classes per week. Under the direction of the chief instructor, Claude Berthiaume, the introductory sessions allow you to develop a solid base to progress in the art of drawing the sword, attacking an adversary, and sheathing the sword again.
Please consult our schedule, and if necessary, contact us to find out whether it is possible to start at another time. These sessions start on a fixed date and last for 3 months. The dojo regularly offers introductory sessions in iaido to beginners from 15 years of age and up. Aikido de la Montagne, in addition to teaching aikido, follows the tradition of teaching iaido as an independent art.
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