Aikido is what we practise and what we teach, across four spaces and six days a week. A judo club and a karate club also train on our mat, with their own instructors.
合気道 合気会 · Aikido Aikikai
A Japanese martial art that does not set out to beat an opponent but to neutralise an attack by redirecting its force. It is always practised in pairs, with no sparring and no competition: one attacks, the other resolves it, then they swap.
That is why you can start at any age and keep practising for life. No strength and no previous experience are needed.
15 classes a week,
Monday to Saturday
Badalona, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona
The dojo's regular practice, and where everybody ends up training. Empty-hand technique in pairs, with every grade on the same mat: whoever has been at it for years adjusts their practice to whoever just walked in. From 12 years old.
The way into aikido, with no previous experience of any kind. It covers what makes everything else possible: falling without hurting yourself, footwork, distance, and the etiquette of the mat. You can combine it with the general class from your first month.
Aikido comes out of swordwork, and its empty-hand movement makes more sense with a weapon in your hands. Practised with the bokken (wooden sword), jō (staff) and tantō (wooden knife), in paired forms. It is not a separate discipline: it clarifies what you already do without weapons.
Ages 6 to 12. Aikido gives them focus and confidence in a setting where nobody competes against anybody, and they learn to defend themselves without hurting anyone. The children's group is suspended for now; if you would like a place for your child, write to us and we will let you know as soon as it reopens.
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We also teach
居合術 柳心照智流 · Iaijutsu Ryūshin Shōchi-ryū
The art of drawing the sword. In iaijutsu the answer begins with the blade still in its scabbard: drawing, cutting and sheathing are one gesture with no pause between them. There is no opponent in front of you, and that is the difficulty. Nobody corrects your precision; you correct it yourself.
It is practised with an iaitō, an unsharpened sword, repeating inherited forms. Ryūshin Shōchi-ryū is a young school with old roots: Kawabata Terutaka founded it in 2006 and it took its present name in 2011, but many of its kata come from the sixteenth-century Tenshinshō Jigen-ryū.
A weekly class on Mondays. The long Saturday session is announced in the calendar.
1 class a week,
Monday
Badalona
Also on our mat
柔道 · Judo
Jigorō Kanō called it “the gentle way” because his idea was the opposite of force: if the other person pushes, you give; if they pull, you go with them. The moment they lose their balance is the moment the technique works by itself.
It is trained standing and on the ground, and you fall a great deal, which is the first thing you learn. Kanō built it as education before sport, and that part has stayed: it is why so many parents choose it for their children.
2 classes a week,
Monday, Wednesday
Badalona
Independent club, separate sign-up
極真空手 · Kyokushin Karate
Kyokushin is full-contact karate: the strikes actually land, without pads and without stopping to score a point. Masutatsu Ōyama founded it in the 1950s, convinced that a martial art never put to the test ends up being an idea about fighting rather than the thing itself.
A class moves between basics, forms and sparring, and that progression is what makes it approachable, and nobody puts you in a fight on your first day. It is demanding by design, and what it trains hardest, in the end, is not quitting.
3 classes a week,
Tuesday, Friday, Saturday
Badalona
Independent club, separate sign-up