I would like to express some comments about your this year seminar in Moscow.

This was my first experience of your seminar, since I’ve never had a chance to participate in one before. At the beginning I was afraid that my skill level would not allow me to comprehend techniques and information that you would present during seminar, but your explanations were so clear and intuitive that I could grasp a lot of useful information. Also it was a joint seminar with “Systema” master Mr. Ryabko, and despite that I’m Russian and live in Moscow, I’ve never considered “Systema” seriously. Only your idea that we have to open our minds and seek for new ideas attracted my interest to “Systema”. Thanks to that I’ve discovered “Systema” for myself and found a lot of things that I would like to learn from it. It turned out that “Systema” and Aikido could coexist and complement each other harmonically.

I would like to thank you for your masterful training and some philosophical ideas that forced me to reconsider my comprehension of martial arts in general and Aikido in particular.

Best regards,

Andrey Slabunov  { Moscow}