Alex Cho Snyder

Alex Cho Snyder started training at the Seattle School of Aikido in 2003, during his freshman year of high school. He soon found the art, with its emphasis on connection and sensitivity, to be a great fit for his personality and applicable to many other activities that reward careful listening, from learning to play new musical instruments to coaxing reluctant teenagers through a difficult programming problem. He has continued to train here and has grown exponentially more graceful as a result, though he still bumps into things occasionally.

Alex was one of a handful of volunteers who stepped up to continue the kids program at Seattle School of Aikido two years ago and now teaches alongside Helmut Floss on Saturday mornings. Thanks to Helmut's guidance, he has also grown marginally more adept at handling large groups of small children.

More recently, Alex has begun studying Icho Ryu Aikibudo as well as the Brazilian martial art Capoeira, and enjoys confusing his students with unexpected cartwheels and leg sweeps whenever they get too complacent in their Aikido practice.