Featured Master Instructors:

• Mitsugi Saotome Shihan - Founder, chief instructor Aikido Schools of Ueshiba, USA
• Frank Doran Shihan - Founder, chief instructor Aikido West, Redwood City, CA
• Hiroshi Ikeda shihan - Founder, chief instructor Boulder Aikikai, Boulder, CO

Special Guest Instructor:

• Christian Tissier - Founder, chief instructor Cercle Tissier, Paris, France

Experience the techniques, applications and personalities of these four gifted instructors, as you view highlights of their classes at this popular week-long seminar at the Boulder Aikikai Aikido Summer Camp in the Rockies. Thanks to superb editing, the DVD captures the essence of the teachers' instruction, with approximately 25 minutes devoted to each. With clear displays of techniques and signature interpretations, the DVD is an excellent study tool and a collector's item as well.

Unique bonus material:

• Saotome shihan's reflections - A rare 30 minute segment featuring Saotome shihan on the mat, reflecting upon and demonstrating some of the lessons of his fifty years of aikido study.
• The camp's Special Evening Presentation featuring guest lecturer and aikido historian Stanley Pranin, editor of Aikido Journal www.aikidojournal.com. Mr. Pranin presents a fascinating chronology of O'Sensei's life and the development of aikido, enriched by contributions of personal experience from Saotome sensei and Tissier sensei.

Run time is approximately 100 minutes, with an additional 70 minutes of bonus material.

Read a review of the 2003 Aikido Summer Camp in the Rockies posted in the Bu Jin? Design Newsletter Archives.