Finger Lakes Aikido training sessions are held at Full Life Fitness in downtown Ithaca, NY.  Full Life Fitness is located in the Clinton West Plaza on Clinton St. at intersection of Fulton and Meadow (Rt. 13).  Other classes are held at the

Practice on the Cornell University Campus, in conjunction with the Cornell Aikido Club, is in the Women's Gymnastics Gym, second floor, Teagle Hall on the Cornell campus across from the football stadium. Call ahead for information and directions.

Aikido-ka from other dojo are welcome.  USAF members are asked to pay a $5 mat fee per session, while visitors from other organizations are asked to contribute $10.

Visitors are always welcome to watch Aikido training during any regularly scheduled class.
 

Larry Bieri Sensei, 6th dan Shido-in

Larry Bieri began his Aikido training in February, 1971 at the Aikido World Headquarters Dojo (Training Hall) in Tokyo, Japan, and continued there for over 16 years.  When he returned to North America, he became a Certified Instructor (Shido-in) in the United States Aikido Federation which represents the main line of aikido as handed down directly from the founder of the art. He was promoted to 6th dan in January, 1998 by Yamada Yoshimitsu Shihan, head of the U.S.A.F.

While in Japan, he also studied a number of traditional, pre-modern martial traditions which preserve the various weapons used by the warrior caste ("samurai") and have histories tracing back hundreds of years.  Weapons studied include the sword, halberd, spear, staff, stick, short sword, and other auxiliary weapons and skills.  He also has many years experience in the ancient Japanese art of the bow and arrow usually referred to as kyudo.