Fujimori Sensei, one of Japan's most expert martial arts exponents, has visited the Luton Aikido Club for a second time after first coming to Luton in 2003.

He arrived at Heathrow Airport very early one sunny morning and was met by a bleary eyed trio - Sensei Loft, who founded the Luton club, Darren Murphy (“Kato”) and Yasushi Ihara, who was one of Fujimori Sensei's students some years ago.

The club was greatly honoured by the visit from such a distinguished martial artist, who was a student of the legendary Morihei Uyeshiba the founder of modern-day Aikido.

Fujimori Sensei, who is a 7th Dan Black Belt in Aikido, now has his own style – Butokuryu.
During his stay in Luton he held daily teaching sessions at the Luton Aikido Club, passing on to the club members some of his very considerable knowledge of the martial art, which he has practised for decades.

The club members owe a great debt to Fujimori Sensei for travelling thousands of miles to help improve their Aikido skills. The teaching sessions were a great success.

And many thanks to Yasushi for travelling down from Durham to train and translate from Japanese to English, and to Darren, who helped in so many ways.

During the times he was not teaching at the club the distinguished visitor took in many of the local places of interest in the Beds, Herts and Bucks area. These included Bletchley Park (Station X), where the Enigma codes were broken, and Aldbury, a typical english village located two miles from Tring which has been used for many film and television programmes including episodes of Inspector Morse.