From Kayla Feder
6th Dan
Aikido of Berkeley

I recently had the opportunity to watch George Ledyard's newest DVDS, produced by Shari Dyer (Keigan Productions). It was well filmed.

I was inspired by many of his points during the seminar. Ledyard Sensei was intsructing, so he was in training mode and was able to get across some important information. The DVDs seemed helpful for beginners and advanced practitioners, as well as for those looking for inspiring ideas, pointers and/or insight into sword practice.

I have been a student of Aikido for the last thirty plus years, and picked up tools from this DVD that have been helpful in teaching the bokken as well as teaching ways of looking at training in general. For instance, Ledyard Sensei says that when you offer your hand, you are not really offering it to ask your partner or opponent to grab, but rather you offer your hand to draw out their spirit.

The only thing I would have like to have been different is to see more of him just moving with his partners. I would (highly) recommend this DVD to all Aikido students.

Note from the producer: If you have a submenu button on your remote, you can flick back and forth from the video to the submenu, where the full movement for each kumitachi is demonstrated by Ledyard Sensei and Kevin Lam. This use of the submenu button is available in all Keigan Production DVDs.