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TRAINING in the BLUE MOUNTAINS
View from one of our outdoor training sites Places to stay: Want to go deeper into the art? Then come to KATOOMBA where you will discover the other layers of the universal 'inner net' made of KI, in real space-time, where physics meets metaphysics while you train at the Peaceful Warrior Dojo in the centre of the Blue Mountains National Park, N.S.W. Australia. Temporary places to stay range from holiday cottages, to hotels but our experience is that if you are an economical traveller looking for high standards of accommodation the excellent facilities at the local YHA at 207 Katoomba Street, at Katoomba. It's only just over 20 MINUTES WALK TO THE DOJO (a great warm up breathing the cleanest air in the world) and 3 minutes or so to the main shopping centre. Or, why not take up residency in the beautiful City of the Blue Mountains in the middle of the Blue Mountains National Park, and train long term. (see 'Links' >> A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY Since 1958 Sensei Nev Sagiba has sought the various paths of Budo, Aikido becoming his favourite since it encompasses them all. A 'true-blue' mountain sensei in the Yamabushi tradition, sensei has sought to refine the essence of the art to an immaculate degree. Conditions in this small traditional, 30 mat dojo are exacting. Whilst the training is safe, the atmosphere relaxing, the focus of training is intense and the etiquette strict. Only a few survive and remain to master the stringent screening conditions that ongoing training provides. Those who stay on become highly skilled. Gently nurturing beginners to dynamic heights, they soon become transformed into powerful peaceful warriors, role models, teachers and positively influential members of society. With integrity they move into the world quietly uplifting the fibre of the society in which they live by their exemplary lives. Some have taken up the role of teaching in dojos of their own. |
PEACEFUL WARRIOR DOJO A Brief Introduction
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Nev Sensei continued>> Questions arose in his mind when the news showed that a judo champion had been killed in a brawl. Then a karate champion trying to defend someone in a street assault, suffered a similar fate. Nev kept training because he loved it, but the element of contest seemed to have an effect where even the best and most senior were beaten at least half the time. It seemed like a game of chance. If so why all the training? Then one day a senior student brought a book on Aikido to the dojo where Nev was training. When Nev saw O'Sensei... ...his hair stood on end and he knew that whatever it was this ancient looking man was teaching, he wanted to learn it. He sought to find out more about Aikido. The little reading matter which was obtainable seemed to offer a paradigm different from contest and the efficacy of this mysterious art was borne out by the various anecdotes of Master Ueshiba's invincibility in real life survival incidents.It would be years before Nev's dream of actually receiving qualified instructions in Aikido would be realized. His family moved to North Queensland where from age 14 or so he worked cutting sugar cane, as a stockman on cattle stations of the Gulf of Carpentaria and fishing in the Torres Strait Islands, the Pacific Ocean and the Coral Sea... and he still dreamed of studying Aikido. 1970 came. Now a young man aged 19, Nev could wait no longer. He packed a bag, a few dollars and hitch-hiked from Port Douglas, then a two pub small town in North Queensland, to Sydney N.S.W. where all he could find was a job in a restaurant at night. This conflicted with training time for the Aikido classes that Mr. Sugano, the first and only Aikido instructor of the time in Australia, was conducting in Sydney. Nev soon found alternate work hours and finally his dream came true. He was training Aikido. This is what he had wanted for so long.
Kote Gaeshi In 1984, after a ten year career in the NSW Fire Brigades Nev moved to the Blue Mountains to recover failing health engendered by years of toxic smoke inhalation and job related stresses and injuries. At age 33, due to the seriousness of his illness, he thought he was 'over the hill'. But he sought to find an Aikido dojo in the Blue Mountains so he could at least watch. None existed.. In desperation he put an ad in the local paper, "One person wanted to practice Aikido..." Instead several people came, hoping to learn. None had practiced Aikido before. And so it fell upon him to pass on the art in order to continue to pursue his training.. Having no alternative than to share what little he could, things began to grow and he was back in training and sharing what he loved most. Many times his health failed and classes stopped altogether. For years only one or two people turned up to train. But he persisted doing what little was possible, gentle , regular installments within the ability of the day. Despite serious disabilities, he continues to teach and coach, deriving great joy from the growing development and skill of the students From these modest beginnings slowly emerged and grew the very first Blue Mountains Aikido School, The Aikido-Way of the Peaceful Warrior Dojo.. * More about Blue Mountains Aikido>>
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