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Philippe Voarino

2007-04-02T01:40:00.000-07:00

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Philippe Voarino is an aikido teacher. He received (directly from Morihiro Saito) the grade of 6th dan in Iwama Ryu Aikido and 5th dan Iwama Ryu aiki-ken and aiki-jo.
Voarino began studying aikido under Nobuyoshi Tamura in 1977.
He is one of several French Aikido teachers of international reputation, having worked within and beyond France to promote and develop Aikido. This includes his involvement as a founder of Takemusu Aiki Intercontinental, and his work in other European countries. Like many other French teachers, he has been an influence on British Aikido, particularly in Wales and the West country, where he has often been invited to teach courses and seminars by the National Aikido Federation and clubs such as Fudoshin Aikido Cardiff.
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Philippe Voarino - Aikido Journal Personalities

Seigo Yamaguchi

2007-03-09T18:43:00.000-08:00

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(13 April 1924-24 January 1996). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Fukuoka Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Began training at AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO c. 1951 and quickly rose through the ranks. Dispatched to Burma in 1958 where he remained for several years. Presently, one of the senior instructors at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO where he teaches Monday evening classes. Has traveled abroad on numerous occasions, especially to France where he has a large following.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [YAMAGUCHI, SEIGO]

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Aikido Seigo Yamaguchi Sensei

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Daniel Toutain

2007-02-23T00:49:00.000-08:00

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Daniel Toutain, 6th Dan Saito Sensei, is the technical director of Iwama Ryu France.

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Aiki Shuren Dojo / Iwama Ryu Aikido - Daniel Toutain

Aikido TV Aragon Daniel Toutain Zaragoza

9e. Kumijo Par Daniel Toutain 6e. Dan

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Rennes 2006

Tsuneo Ando

2007-02-21T21:14:00.000-08:00

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(b. 29 October 1956). 5th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Ehime Prefecture. Yoshinkan Aikido Kyoshi. Began training in 1975 at Tokushima University in Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku under Taisuke Kudo. Accompanied Gozo SHIODA to the U. S. in June 1987 visiting Las Vegas, Nevada and later the same year in September to Detroit, Michigan.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [ANDO, TSUNEO]

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Ando Sensei Yoshinkan Aikido Tokyo Enbukai (2000)

Ando Sensei at Yoshinkan Aikido Enbukai (Tokyo 2001)

Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu

2007-02-10T05:52:00.000-08:00

What is Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu?

Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu (大東流合気柔術), originally called Daito-ryū jujutsu (大東流柔術), is a Japanese martial art that first became widely known in the early 20th century under the headmastership of Sokaku Takeda (武田惣角 Takeda Sōkaku). Takeda had extensive training in several martial arts (including Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryu and sumo) and referred to the style he taught as Daito-ryū. Although the ryū's traditions claim to extend back centuries in Japanese history there are no known extant records regarding the ryū before Sokaku Takeda. Whether he is regarded as the restorer or founder of the art, the known history of Daito-ryū begins with Sokaku Takeda. Perhaps the most famous student of Sokaku Takeda was Morihei Ueshiba (植芝盛平 Ueshiba Morihei), founder of aikido.
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Sokaku Takeda

(10 October 1859-25 April 1943). B. at 63 Oikeda Oaza, Hirosemura, Kawanuma-gun, Aizu near Aizubange-cho, in present-day Fukushima Prefecture as the second son of Sokichi Takeda. Disseminator of DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU in 20th-century Japan. Married twice, his first wife, Kon, bore two children, the eldest named Munekiyo. His second marriage to Sue produced Takemune, Tae, Tokimune (present headmaster of Daito-ryu), Eiko, Munemitsu, Shizuka and Muneyoshi. Takeda traveled extensively throughout Japan giving seminars mainly to well-to-do persons, police and military officers. He left behind extensive written records in the form of EIMEIROKU and SHAREIKOKU documents which give a good idea of the extent of his teaching activities. Takeda's form of jujutsu is the most successful of surviving Japanese schools and his technical influence on AIKI BUDO and, hence, modern aikido is great. He is reputed to have taught some 30,000 students during his long career. Takeda first taught Morihei UESHIBA in ENGARU, Hokkaido in 1915.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [TAKEDA, SOKAKU]

Seigo Okamoto

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(b. 10 February 1925). B. Yubari City, Hokkaido. First taught by Kodo HORIKAWA in 1963 in Kitami, Hokkaido. Received 7th dan from Horikawa in 1974. Okamoto was promoted to shihan by Horikawa in 1978. He separated from the KODOKAI to found Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu ROPPOKAI after moving to Tokyo in 1977. Okamoto's art is characterized by rapidly executed aiki techniques with a minimum of body movement on the part of the defender. The technical repertoire of the Roppokai represents a departure from the traditional Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu techniques of Sokaku TAKEDA. Okamoto is the author of two books (see bibl. ) and two videotapes on Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu and travels regularly to Denmark and Italy to conduct seminars.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [OKAMOTO, SEIGO]

Daitoryu Aikijujutsu Okamoto Gakken

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Interview with Seigo Okamoto Shihan (02)

Katsuyuki Kondo

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(Mar 1945). Soke Kyoju Dairi, May 1988. Contractor. First learned DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU from Tsunejiro Hosono in 1957 at the Shineikan Dojo in Koiwa, Tokyo. Tokimune TAKEDA visited this dojo on several occasions and first taught Kondo in 1960. After the death of Hosono, Kondo learned from Kotaro YOSHIDA for a brief period starting in 1963 in Hitachi. The latter was paralyzed on his left side and taught while watching or by showing techniques on his right side. After Yoshida's death, Kondo became a student of Tokimune Takeda and visited ABASHIRI on numerous occasions. Takeda also taught at Kondo's dojo on several trips to Tokyo. Kondo founded a Daito-ryu club at Chiba Kogyo University in April 1964 which became the present aikido club after his graduation. He is the only person to have received the KYOJU DAIRI certification from Tokimune TAKEDA (1974). Kondo established the Shimbukan Dojo in Tokyo in October 1982. He was awarded the MENKYO KAIDEN by Tokimune in May 1988 receiving at the same time a total of six Daito-ryu scrolls. Kondo participated in the AIKI NEWS FRIENDSHIP DEMONSTRATION III in 1987 and Aiki Expo 2002 in Las Vegas, USA. He has made frequent trips abroad to conduct demonstrations and seminars and established a Daito-ryu study group in Baltimore, Maryland in 1998. Kondo is an authority on swordsman and calligrapher Tesshu Yamaoka and owns a large collection of original calligraphy. He published a bilingual technical manual covering the 30 techniques of the basic ikkajo series in 2000.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [KONDO, KATSUYUKI]

Demonstration of Daito-ryu Aikijutsu by Kondo Sensei

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Nishikido Takeo

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Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu Kodo: http://www.hikarido.com/hikaridonowaza.htm
大東流合気柔術光道福岡支部動画: http://daitoryuaiki.hp.infoseek.co.jp/movie.htm

Hapkido

2007-02-10T05:33:00.000-08:00

What is Hapkido?

Hapkido (also spelled hap ki do or hapki-do) is a dynamic and somewhat eclectic Korean martial art. In the Korean language, hap means "harmony", "coordinated", or "joining"; ki describes internal energy, spirit, strength, or power; and do means "way" or "art". Thus, hapkido, which shares the same Chinese characters with aikido (合気道), translates literally to "joining-energy-way", but it is most often rendered as "the way of coordinating energy" or "the way of coordinated power."
A historical link to Daito-ryu aikijujutsu is generally acknowledged, though the exact nature of which is clouded by the historical animosity between the Korean and Japanese peoples and the confusion following the end of the Second World War.
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Choi Yong Sul (1904 - 1986), alternative spelling Choi Yong Sool, was the founder of the martial art hapkido. He was born in the province Chungcheongbuk-do of today's South Korea and was taken to Japan, during the Japanese occupation of the country, when he was eight years old. It is said that while in Japan Choi became a student of Takeda Sokaku and studied a form of jujutsu known as Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu.
He returned to Korea at the end of the second World War and in 1948 began teaching his art at a brewery owned by the father of his first student Suh Bok Sub. He first called his art Yu Sul (유술) or Yawara (柔) later changing it to Yu Kwon Sul (유권술(柔拳術)) and Hap Ki Yu Kwon Sul (합기유권술(合氣柔拳術)) and eventually hapkido.[1]
Choi Yong Sul is honored with the title doju (도주(道主)), which can be translated as "Keeper of the way".
It is claimed that the arts of Hapkido, modern Hwarangdo, Kuk Sool Won, as well as lesser known arts such as Han Pul all owe a debt to the teachings of Master Choi.[2]
Choi Yong Sul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dynamic Hapkido - Steven Menasche

Hapkido Techniques

German Hapkido Championship

Tsutomu Chida

2007-02-07T23:54:00.000-08:00

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(b. 4 October 1950). 7th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Kanagawa Prefecture. Yoshinkan Aikido Shihan. Began training in 1969 at the Yoshinkan Aikido Yoyogi Dojo. Traveled to New Zealand in 1974 and then in 1979 accompanied Gozo SHIODA to the U. K. and France. In 1989, he conducted a joint seminar in England for practitioners from the U. K. , France and West Germany.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [CHIDA, TSUTOMU]

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Chida Tsutomu - All Japan Yoshinkan Aikido 2005

Tsutomu Chida's Aikido

Aikido - Chida 03

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Hirokazu Kobayashi

2007-02-07T23:51:00.000-08:00

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(14 February 1929-28 August 1998). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Osaka. Began training in early 1950s in Osaka. Operated a dojo in Osaka for many years. Maintained cordial ties with Kenji TOMIKI. Frequently traveled to Europe, notably France, Italy, and Germany, during the summer months to conduct seminars.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [KOBAYASHI, HIROKAZU]

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Yukio Utada

2007-02-07T23:48:00.000-08:00

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(b. 1948). 7th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Professional aikido instructor. Began training at the YOSHINKAN AIKIDO Hombu Dojo in 1965. Trained as an UCHIDESHI in the U. S. under Takashi KUSHIDA. President and chief instructor of the Doshinkan Dojo in Philadelphia. Supervises aikido instructors on East Coast and conducts workshops.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [UTADA, YUKIO]

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Yukio Utada 7th dan Yoshinkai Aikido

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Motohiro Fukakusa

2007-02-07T23:45:00.000-08:00

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Thai Aikikai　7th dan

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Fukakusa 2005

Aikido: Yokomen Uchi Irimi Nage

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Aikido Association of Thailand

Morihei UESHIBA

2007-02-02T05:21:00.000-08:00

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Morihei Ueshiba 植芝盛平 (1883-12-14 – 1969-04-26) was a famous martial artist and founder of aikido. He is often referred to as Kaiso 開祖 (founder) or Ōsensei 翁先生 (Great Teacher) by some aikidoka.
Morihei Ueshiba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Budo : Aikido Ueshiba

Aikido - O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba at Iwama

O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba Interview

History of Aikido

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The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba
Aikido Nippon Kan By Gaku Homma

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Yoshiaki Yokota

2007-01-13T05:48:00.000-08:00

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Honbu Dojo Shihan 7th Dan

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Video N°12 : Yokota Shihan 7e Dan

Video N°12 : Yokota Shihan 7e Dan
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Miyako Fujitani

2007-01-13T04:33:00.000-08:00

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Miyako Fujitani, 6th Dan by the Tokio Aikikai and director of the Aikido tenshin Dojo in Osaka married Steven Seagal in 1975 when Seagal was in his twenties. Her father owned an aikido dojo in Osaka.
Martial Arts Biography - Miyako Fujitani

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Tenshin Dojo Aikido

Aikido Tenshin Dojo

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Tenshin Dojo(Osaka, Japan)

Shoji Seki

2007-01-13T04:28:00.000-08:00

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Honbu dojo shihan 7th dan

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Aikido Seki Shihan

Hiroshi Isoyama

2007-01-13T04:19:00.000-08:00

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(b. 1937). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Ibaragi Prefecture. Civil servant, Aikikai Shihan. An UCHIDESHI in IWAMA Dojo while middle school student. Known for his powerful technique.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [ISOYAMA, HIROSHI]

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Isoyama Sensei

Kyoichi Inoue

2007-01-13T04:13:00.000-08:00

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(b. 10 September 1935). 8th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Graduate of Chuo University. Entered YOSHINKAN AIKIDO dojo in 1955 together with Takashi KUSHIDA. Became a full-time aikido instructor of policewomen at Metropolitan Police School in December 1970. Taught police classes until his retirement when he assumed the position of Dojo-cho lot Yoshinkan Aikido Hombu Dojo in Ochiai, Tokyo. Presently the Kancho-cho of the headquarters dojo.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [INOUE, KYOICHI]

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Yoshinkan Aikido Dojocho Kyoichi Inoue

Yoshinkan Inoue Kancho Demo in Canada

Inoue kancho (9th Dan) Yoshinkan Aikido Enbukai in Tokyo

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Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo

Masatake Fujita

2007-01-11T01:55:00.001-08:00

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(b. 21 April 1937). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Shinkyo, Manchuria. Aikikai Shihan. Entered Takushoku University in 1956. After graduation from university, Fujita was employed by the Aikikai in the late 1950s and rose to become head of the office. Fujita is one of the major-decision makers at the Aikikai and has traveled extensively abroad. Serves as the Technical Director of the National Cultural Aikido Bond of the Netherlands. Known for his powerful technique.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [FUJITA, MASATAKE]

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Fujita Masatake 8th Dan Aikikai

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Aikido Fujita Sensei

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Interview with Masatake Fujita

Bansen Tanaka

2007-01-11T01:52:00.000-08:00

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Bansen Tanaka (b. 21 march 1912, Osaka, d. dec. 1988) was an aikido master and one of the pre-war student of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba[1].
Tanaka was a judo practitioner when he met Ueshiba in 1936. Eager to learn about aikido, he set up a dojo in Osaka for Noriaki (Yoichiro) Inoue, early student and nephew of Ueshiba. He followed Inoue and Ueshiba's teachings until 1939 when he was drafted to go to war. His proficiency in aikido secured him a position as a bodyguard in the army. He returned to Osaka a year after and resumed the practice of aikido.
Ueshiba contacted Tanaka in 1951 and suggested him to build his own dojo in Osaka. He accompanied Ueshiba to Iwama during the construction of the future Osaka Aikikai Dojo. After the inauguration (early 1952), Ueshiba spent several weeks there teaching aikido [2]. Tanaka remained the chief instructor of the Osaka Aikikai Dojo until his death. He was 9th dan Aikikai. Yukio Kawahara, technical director of the Canadian Aikido Federation, Higuchi Takanari, chief instructor of the Kyoto Aikikai Dojo, Seiji Tomita, founder of the Ban Sen Juku school in Belgium and Ishu Ishiyama, chief instructor of the Vancouver West Aikikai Dojo figure among his students.
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Bansen Tanaka Shihan

Kiyoyuki Terada

2007-01-11T01:48:00.000-08:00

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(b. 20 March 1922). 9th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Nagasaki Prefecture. First taught by DOSHU Kisshomaru UESHIBA at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in 1951. Presently serves as the shihan of Takushoku University and Kyoto Industry University. Also responsible for the aikido clubs of Numazu Industry High School, Numazu Nishi High School, U. S. Yokosuka Base, Yokohama YMCA, Yokohama City Office, Yokohama Aikidokai, and the following companies: Nippon Kokan, Hitachi, YMCA and Ricoh.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [TERADA, KIYOYUKI]

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Aikido Kiyoyuki Terada Sensei

Masatomi Ikeda

2006-12-16T03:51:00.000-08:00

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Masatomi Ikeda (born 1940 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese aikido teacher who holds the rank of 7th dan in the Aikikai and was the representative for the organisation in Switzerland.
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Aikido Masatomi Ikeda 7. Dan

Ikeda Sensei

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Yasuhisa Shioda

2006-12-16T03:39:00.000-08:00

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(b. 15 November 1952). B. Tokyo. Yoshinkan Aikido Shihan. Graduate in Economics of Chuo University. Began training in 1970 at the Aikido Yoshinkan Yoyogi Dojo. Spent three years in the U. K. from 1981-1984 where he taught YOSHINKAN AIKIDO.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [SHIODA, YASUHISA]

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Yasuhisa Shioda Sensei Yoshinkan Aikido Enbukai

Kenji Shimizu

2006-12-16T03:34:00.000-08:00

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Kenji Shimizu (清水健二 Shimizu Kenji b. 1940) is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendoryu.
Shimizu was born in 1940 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Shimizu had been training judo since childhood and held a 4th dan in this art when he changed to aikido in 1963. He then became one of the last personal students of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba. After Ueshiba died in 1969, Shimizu, then with a 7th dan in aikido, founded his own school in Tokyo named Tendoryu (ten: heaven, dō: way, ryū: school).
Tendoryu Aikido is characterized by its large and clear movements and convinces spectators and students by its naturalness and harmonic flow of motion.
Since 1978, Shimizu sensei has regularly held seminars in Germany and other European countries with the formation of the German Tendoryu Society was founded in 1993.
He received the 8th dan aikido from the Japanese Budo Federation in 1998.
Shimizu sensei co-authored a book titled Zen and Aikido (ISBN 4-900586-13-7) with Shigeo Kamata.
Shimizu received the award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the year Heisei 14 (2002) for his work spreading aikido abroad for many years. In the same year he was invited to the autumn garden party at the imperial palace in Akasaka, Tōkyō.
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Aikido Kenji Shimizu Sensei

Rinjiro Shirata

2006-12-16T03:27:00.000-08:00

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(29 March 1912-29 May 1993). 9th dan Aikikai (1972). Awarded 10th dan posthumously. Aikikai Shihan. B. Oyamura, Yamagata Prefecture. From a family of OMOTO believers whose mother practiced AIKI BUDO at a dojo of the BUDO SENYOKAI in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Entered the KOBUKAN DOJO in 1933 and was known for his exceptional physical strength. Shirata was later dispatched to Osaka where he taught until his induction into the Japan Imperial Army. Shirata he resumed teaching c. 1960 continuing until shortly before his death. He supervised publication of the 1984 book in English, Aikido: The Way of Harmony by John STEVENS (see bibl. ). Interviewed AN#62-63.
Encyclopedia of Aikido [SHIRATA, RINJIRO]

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Aikido Rinjiro Shirata Sensei

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Amazon Online Reader : Aikido: The Way of Harmony

Minoru Mochizuki

2006-12-15T19:29:00.000-08:00

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Minoru Mochizuki (1907-04-07 in Shizuoka, Japan - 2003-05-30 in Aix-en-Provence, France) founded Yoseikan Budo. 10th dan, aikido, International Martial Arts Federation (IMAF); 9th dan, jujutsu; 8th dan, iaido; 8th dan, judo; 8th dan, kobudo; 5th dan, kendo; 5th dan, karate; 5th dan, jojutsu.
Mochizuki was one of the direct students of judo founder Jigoro Kano, aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba and Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate. Believing that the martial arts have become distorted by specialization into separate disciplines and transformation into sports, Mochizuki assembled the major techniques of the Japanese martial tradition into a single coherent structure. He oversaw the development of his system from his home in Shizuoka, Japan, where his dojo, the Yoseikan, was often visited by martial arts practitioners from all over the world. Mochizuki formally passed the leadership of his Yoseikan Budo system to his son, Hiroo Mochizuki, in 2000. Yoseikan Budo is currently practiced in 29 countries around the world, and in such diverse places as Australia and Algeria, where a recent clinic had 240 people in attendance. The organization continues to grow and expand to more countries each year.
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Mochizuki Sensei Yoseikan Aikido

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Steven Seagal

2006-12-06T06:46:00.000-08:00

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Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1951) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director and a singer. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan, before moving to the Los Angeles, California area where, after being noticed by entertainment executives, he made his film debut in 1988.
Steven Seagal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Aikido Demonstration 1993 Tokyo

Aikido Demonstration 1996 Tokyo

Aikido with Steven Seagal

Aikido - 7th Dan Steven Seagal Teaching Aikido

Steven Seagal Black Belt Test (part1)

Steven Seagal Black Belt Test (part 2)

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Kenji Tomiki

2006-12-06T06:42:00.000-08:00

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Kenji Tomiki (1900–1979) is a Japanese aikido teacher and the founder of aikido style Shodokan, often referred to as Tomiki Aikido.
Tomiki was one of the early students of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba, and also of Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo. In 1925, the year he joined Morihei Ueshiba, he obtained 5th dan in judo. In 1929 he represented Miyagi Prefecture in the first judo tournament held in front of the Emperor - this tournament became the All Japan Tournament the following year. From 1936 till the end of the second world war he lived in Manchukuo (Manchuria) where he taught aikibudo (an early name for aikido) to the Kanton army and the Imperial Household Agency. In 1938 he became an assistant professor at Kenkoku University in Manchukuo. He went on to be awarded the first 8th dan in aikido (1942) and an 8th dan in judo. After returning from a three year internment by the Soviet Union, he taught both judo and aikido for many years at Waseda University. It was there that he formulated and expanded his theories concerning both kata based training methods and a particular form of free-style fighting which would put him at odds with much, but not all, of the aikido world.
In 1974 he founded the Japan Aikido Association (JAA) from an earlier organization of the same name to promote his theories. He called his style Shodokan Aikido and a honbu dojo, dedicated solely for the study of aikido, had been built in 1967 in Osaka. The current head of the dojo and chief instructor of the JAA is Tetsuro Nariyama.

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Aikido Lecture

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Koichi Tohei

2006-12-06T06:33:00.000-08:00

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Koichi Tohei (藤平光一) (born January 1920) is a 10th Dan aikidoka and founder of the Ki Society and its style of aikido, officially known as Shin-Shin Toitsu Aikido - "aikido with mind and body unified", but commonly known as Ki-Aikido. The Ki Society is also known as Ki no Kenkyukai (気の研究会; Japanese for "Ki Research Society").
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Aikido - Strength Vs Ki

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Tohei Sensei Jo Kata

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Aikido - Tohei Sensei Demonstration 1988

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Tohei Kokyunage

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Kazuo Chiba

2006-12-06T06:30:00.000-08:00

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Kazuo Chiba (born Feb 5,1940,Tokyo) is an aikido teacher from Japan who has spent a considerable part of his teaching career in the United States. He is an 8th dan from the aikido organisation Aikikai, and the founder of the dojo (aikido club) San Diego Aikikai in San Diego where he relocated to in 1981. He is also the founder of an international aikido federation known as Birankai. In the aikido world, Chiba is sometimes known as a representative of the "hard" or "tough" side of aikido, with a strong emphasis on weapons training. As of May 2006, Chiba sensei has announced his gradual retirement from seminar-style training, which often imposes a heavy travel schedule. He has cited a desire to spend his remaining years closer to his family.
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Chiba Kazuo Sensei 8th Dan Aikikai, Suwari Waza

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Nobuyoshi Tamura

2006-12-06T06:27:00.000-08:00

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Nobuyoshi Tamura was born on 1933-03-02 in Osaka, Japan. His father was a kendo teacher. Tamura entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo around 1953 as an uchi-deshi (live-in student) of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was one of Ueshiba's favorite pupils and since 1964 has greatly contributed to the development of aikido in Europe and France in particular. He is the National Technical Director (DTN) of the FFAB (French Federation of Aikido and Budo). He currently holds the rank of 8th dan, and the title of Shihan. He has trained many others instructors throughout various countries mainly in Western Europe but also in different countries around the world. In 1999, he received the medal of "Chevalier de l'ordre National du Mérite" from the French government. Tamura has published several books on aikido (in French). His dojo (Shumeikan Dojo) is located in the village of Bras (Var, France).
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Stage Aikido Tamura Sensei Chalon-sur-Saone 2004

Tamura Shihan, at NY Aikikai

Tamura Shian Katate Dori Ikkyo

Tamura Shian Shomenuchi Ikkyo

Tamura Shian Shomenuchi Kokyunage

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Site Officiel de la Fédération Française d'Aïkido et de Budo

Hiroshi Tada

2006-12-03T05:04:00.000-08:00

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Hiroshi Tada (born in December 13, 1929, Tokyo, Japan) is a 9th dan Aikikai Japanese aikido master who has taught at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo for many years. He was a member of the Waseda University karate club before starting training in aikido at the Hombu Dojo under aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was dispatched to Rome, Italy in 1964 where he established the Italian "central dojo" around 1966. He returned to Japan in 1973 to resume teaching at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo. Masatomi Ikeda, the Aikikai representative in Switzerland is one of his students.

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Aikido Tada Sensei

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Hiroshi Tada,All-Japan Aikido demonstration

1983年

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Aikido TADA Juku,TADA Hiroshi Home Page(Japanese)
Aikido XXVI, gennaio 2005; biografie, Tada Hiroshi(Italie)

Kisaburo Osawa

2006-12-01T05:26:00.000-08:00

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Kisaburo Osawa (b. 1908, Kumagaya, Saitama prefecture, Japan - d. 1991-05-26) was an influential aikido master who taught for many years at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and was a close advisor to Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
He started practicing judo at the age of 17 in order to fortify his body. In 1939 he was introduced to Morihei Ueshiba and entered the Kobukan dojo.
He became one of the most important and influential aikido teachers during the 1950s to 1970s, being the director of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo for many years until 1986 when he was replaced by Morihei's grandson and present Doshu, Moriteru Ueshiba. He held the rank of 9th dan Aikikai.
His son, Hayato Osawa (b. 1951) also became a prominent aikido shihan holding the rank of 7th dan.
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1989 Tokyo

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Gaku Homma

2006-12-01T05:22:00.000-08:00

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Gaku Homma (b 1950) is a Japanese aikido teacher who has spent most of his teaching career in the United States. He was born in Akita Prefecture and trained as an uchideshi in Iwama and the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Tokyo, under the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba and Morihiro Saito in the late 1960s. He moved to Denver, Colorado in 1976 and founded the Nippon Kan as an independent dojo in 1978. This dojo has grown into the largest aikido dojo in the Rocky Mountain region. He has organized several large aikido seminars in Denver, many of them taught by Morihiro Saito.
Gaku Homma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaku_Homma

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Aikido Gaku Homma Seminar Jodo

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Nippon Kan Aikido Dojo-Denver, Colorado: Aikido Humanitarian Active Network (AHAN) Headquartershttp://www.nippon-kan.org/index2.html

Michio Hikitsuchi

2006-12-01T05:16:00.000-08:00

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Michio Hikitsuchi (1923 - 2004-02-02), 10th dan in aikido, was the founder of the Kumano Juku Dojo, in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He met Morihei Ueshiba as a child and studied various martial arts during his entire life.
Michio Hikitsuchi (1923 - 2004-02-02), 10th dan in aikido, was the founder of the Kumano Juku Dojo, in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He met Morihei Ueshiba as a child and studied various martial arts during his entire life.

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Aikido Hikitsuchi Sensei 10th dan

Michio Hikitsuchi at 1983 All - japan Demonstration

Masamichi Noro

2006-12-01T04:49:00.000-08:00

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Masamichi Noro (born in 1935 is a Japanese aikido master established in France. He entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1955 as an uchi-deshi and studied with the founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was then sent to France in 1961 to represent and develop aikido in that country and established his dojo in Paris. In 1979, he left the Aikikai to create the Ki no Michi ("the way of Ki"), which consists of practicing Aikido movements in slow motion.
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Aikido Noro Sensei

Shoji Nishio

2006-12-01T04:41:00.000-08:00

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Shoji Nishio (December 5, 1927 - March 15, 2005), a noted aikidoka, was born in Aomori Prefecture of Japan in 1927. He joined Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1951 and began to teach around 1955. Before aikido he studied judo (4th Dan Kodokan Judo), karate (4th Dan), iaido (7th Dan Nihon Zendoku Iaido) and jodo and also Shintō Musō-ryū jōjutsu and Hozoin-ryū sōjutsu. Skills gained from them he managed to smoothly include into his own specific aikido style where all techniques can be performed with the wooden sword bokken in hand as well as without weapons, and his weapon systems has few similarities to the more common system that derives from Morihiro Saito. He held the title of an Aikikai shihan and created a new school of Iaido with forms from aikido, called Aiki Toho Iaido. In 2003 Nishio Sensei received Budo Kyoryusho award from Japanese Budo Federation for his lifetime contribution to development and worldwide propagation of Aikido. He died in March 2005 aged 77.
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Shoji Nishio Sensei Sankkyo Jo

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http://www.nishiosensei.com/
Shoji Nishio Sensei(www.Aikidojo.info)

Mutsuro Nakazono

2006-12-01T04:33:00.000-08:00

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(born in 1918 in the Kagoshima prefecture) is an Acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine practitioner and an aikido teacher with a strong judo background.
Relocated to France in 1960 where he remained until the early 1970s before moving to the USA
Nakazono is an authority on Kotodama and has written privately published books on the subject.
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Kanshu Sunadomari

2006-11-15T02:46:00.000-08:00

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Kanshū Sunadomari (砂泊カン秀) was born in 1923 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. In his teens, he became an uchideshi of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. His live-in apprenticeship under the founder took place during World War II, and he also spent a brief period at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo after the war. In 1961, at the age of 38, Sunadomari received the rank of 9th [dan]. Sunadomari dedicated himself to the teaching of aikido in his native Kyūshū and opened up the Manseikan dojo (万生館) on the premises of the Tetori Shrine (手取神社）in the heart of Kumamoto City.
Sunadomari comes from a family of devout believers in Omoto, the religion on which Ueshiba based the spiritual underpinnings of aikido, and the Sunadomari family maintained a close relationship with the founder until his death. Kanemoto Sunadomari (elder brother of Kanshu) studied under the founder in the early 1930's and published the first biography of the Founder in 1969 entitled Aikido Kaiso Morihei Ueshiba. A newer version of this book was later published under the title Bu no Shinjin. Fukiko (Mitsue) Sunadomari (elder sister of Kanshu) was a close personal confidante of the founder until his death and was also a high ranking practioner of aikido.
After Ueshiba's death in 1969, Sunadomari founded his own independant style in Kumamoto City and began his further study of the spirit of aikido. In 1999, he renamed his style Aiki Manseidō (合氣万生道) symbolizing his conviction to help spread world peace by transmitting the spirit of the the founder across the world through physical technique. Practitioners of his style recite the Spirit of Aikido (合気道の精神) before begining each practice. Sunadomari is known for his emphasis on kokyu ryoku (breath power; 呼吸力) and his extremely soft and powerful technique. He has written several books, most of which have never been translated from their original Japanese. In 2004, his book Enlightenment through Aikido (Aikido de satoru, 合気道で悟る) became the first to be released in English translation.
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Gozo Shioda

2006-11-15T02:38:00.000-08:00

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Gozo Shioda (塩田剛三) (September 9, 1915 - July 17, 1994), is a Japanese aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan style of aikido.
Shioda was a student of judo while young, and after being easily thrown by Morihei Ueshiba after a demonstration, became his student in 1932. He also studied aikijujutsu. He has become known as one of the more "fiery" or "vigorous" people of aikido history. In 1961 he was awarded a 9th dan rank by Ueshiba.
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Budo : Aikido Shioda

"Tha man who was called as god of martial arts" Japanese TV program

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Shioda Gozo no kamiwaza

Movie "Kamiwaza Aikido"

ECBudokai

from San Diego's East County Yoshinkan Aikido & Japanese Martial Arts Home

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International Yoshinkai Aikido Federation - Home

Moriteru Ueshiba

2006-11-15T00:22:00.000-08:00

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Moriteru Ueshiba (植芝守央 Ueshiba Moriteru) (born April 2, 1951) is the third and current Aikido Doshu. He was born in 1951 in Tokyo and assumed the title of doshu on January 4, 1999 following the death of his father, Kisshomaru Ueshiba. He is a grandson of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. He graduated from Meiji Gakuin University with a degree in economics. He assumed the position of dojocho (道場長) or director of Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1986 and in 1996 became chairman of the Aikikai Foundation.
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Doshu - Moriteru Ueshiba at NY Aikikai

Aikido: Moriteru Ueshiba - Christian Tissier

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"The Empty Mind" DVD

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Aikido 3rd Doshu Iwama 2005

Moriteru Ueshuba 3rd Doshu Embukai

Aikido 3rd Doshu Duisburg 2005

Kisshomaru Ueshiba

2006-11-15T00:17:00.000-08:00

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Kisshomaru Ueshiba (植芝吉祥丸 Ueshiba Kisshōmaru; June 27, 1921-January 4, 1999) was the third son of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. He was born in Ayabe, in the prefecture of Kyoto, Japan. Kisshomaru was Doshu (roughly translated as "keeper" or "guardian of the Way") of aikido from his father's death in 1969 until his own death in 1999. Since being succeeded by his son, Moriteru Ueshiba, he is often referred to as second doshu.
Kisshomaru graduated from Waseda University with a degree in economics. He is often given credit for being the primary force behind the spread and popularization of aikido throughout the world.
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Aikido Exhibition de Sensei

Enbu; Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Kisaburo Osawa, Kunio Iimura and Seigo Yamaguchi

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Mitsugi Saotome

2006-11-14T04:10:00.000-08:00

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Mitsugi Saotome Shihan (born c. 1937, Japan) is an Aikido teacher currently living in the United States. He is a master in the martial art of Aikido. Saotome Shihan is a direct disciple (jikideshi - 直弟子) of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba (O Sensei).
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Mitsugi Saotome Sensei "The Principles of Aikido" Part 1

Mitsugi Saotome Sensei "The Principles of Aikido" Part 2

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Mitsugi Saotome Sensei "The Principles of Aikido" Part 4

Mitsugi Saotome Sensei "The Principles of Aikido" Part 5

Mitsugi Saotome Sensei "The Principles of Aikido" Part 6

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Morihiro Saito

2006-11-14T04:05:00.000-08:00

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Morihiro Saito (斎藤守弘) (March 31, 1928 - May 13, 2002) was an aikido teacher with many students around the world. He began his aikido training under the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, in Iwama in 1946 after having practiced some kendo, judo and karate. Although other students such as Koichi Tohei trained with Ueshiba for more years than Saito did, Saito's work allowed him to train almost as an uchideshi, for long periods as the only student. From 1946 until Ueshiba’s passing in 1969, Saito Sensei served as Ueshiba's assistant in a variety of ways at Iwama while his wife served Mrs. Ueshiba. During Saito sensei’s period as a deshi he taught classes in the Iwama dojo. Before his death Ueshiba gave Morihiro Saito the responsibility of carrying on the teaching at the Iwama dojo and also the position of caretaker of the Aiki Jinja located in Iwama. Morihiro Saito died on 2002-05-13 of cancer.
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Iwama Ryu Aikido - Saito Sensei / Daniel Toutain - Komijo 1-6

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Saito Sensei - 31 Jo Movements

Aikido- Hand to Sword Techniques

Aikido Morihiro Saito Sensei 31 jo kata & kumijo

Tokyo 1981

Old Japanese Kendo Aikido Sword Demonstration

Saito Sensei France Orléans 1989

Paris 2000

Morihiro Saito Sensei 9th dan Aikikai

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Hitohiro Saito

2006-11-14T04:00:00.000-08:00

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Aikido master Hitohiro Saito (斎藤仁弘; Saitō Hitohiro) is the son and successor of Morihiro Saito. Hitohiro was born at 12 February 1957 and raised in the dojo of Morihei Ueshiba the founder of Aikido. At age of seven, he started to learn Aikido from Ueshiba who cared for him as a grandson. After Ueshiba died in 1969, he continued his practice with his father. Saito became official instructor of the Iwama dojo in 1986 and remained so until 2004 the year he separated from the Aikikai organization, and formed his own group called Iwama Shin Shin Aikishuren Kai. Years before his father's death, Hitohiro took over the main work at the founders' dojo and Shrine of Aiki "Aiki Jinja", thus relieving his aging father of the great amount of work required in running the dojo. His father spent his last years taking care of the vegetable gardens and travelling abroad for seminars. The main teaching of the dojo was passed to master Hitohiro's hands and remained so until 2004.
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Hitohiro Sensei Munadori Kotegaeshi

Saito Kancho Sanjyuichi no kata

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Katsuaki Asai

2006-11-11T07:22:00.000-08:00

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Katsuaki Asai (b. 1942-02-18, Tokyo) is a Japanese aikido master. A former student of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba he currently represents the Aikikai in Germany.
He started aikido practice at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1955 at the age of thirteen and continued training while studying at the Meiji University. In 1965, aged only 23, he was dispatched to West Germany by Kisshomaru Ueshiba as a representant of the Hombu Dojo. Based first in Münster, he directed the aikido section of the Deutscher Judo Bund (The German Judo federation) from 1965 to 1966. However, deeply dissatisfied by the marginal role left to aikido by the judo management, he left the federation and founded in 1967, Aikikai Deutschland, an independent aikido organization in Germany. In 1972, he moved his central dojo to Düsseldorf. He is currently a member of the International Aikido Federation, holds the rank of 8th dan and the title of shihan.
Katsuaki Asai - Wikipedia

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AIKIDO Katsuaki Asai, Sensei, 8. Dan

AIKIDO Hiroshi Tada, Sensei, 9. Dan - Katsuaki Asai, Sensei,8. Dan

Aikido Asai Sensei Embukai Germany

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Aikido-Schule K. Asai Düsseldorf(his official website in German)
Interview with Katsuaki Asai

Christian Tissier

2006-11-11T04:10:00.000-08:00

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Christian Tissier (born 1951 in Paris, France) is one of the most well-known European aikido teachers. He started training in aikido as a child in 1962, and trained under Mutsuro Nakazono in Paris until he left for Tokyo in 1969. He came to Aikikai Hombu Dojo as an 18 year old, and trained there for seven years. Among the teachers that have inspired him are Seigo Yamaguchi, Kisaburo Osawa and the second doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
He received 7th dan in 1998, and is among the handful of westerners who have been given the title Shihan by the Aikikai.
Christian Tissier - Wikipedia

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Aikido Christian Tissier

Sportissiomo:Télévision Française: Aikido JuJitsu

Aikido- Christian Tissier

aikido bercy 2004

aikido bercy 2003

Aikido, Basilea '99

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Mitsunari Kanai

2006-11-11T04:01:00.000-08:00

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Mitsunari Kanai (1938-2004), was an aikido teacher born in Japan, who spent most part of his teaching career in the US. He was an 8th dan teacher with the title shihan in the organisation Aikikai.
Kanai was one of the last group of uchi-deshi under the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba. He entered the Aikikai in 1958 as an uchi-deshi at Hombu Dojo. He came to the United States in 1966 as a 4th dan and subsequently founded the New England Aikikai, currently located off of Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was instrumental in the early development of Aikido in the United States and Canada, and taught seminars widely throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He was one of the founders and a Technical Director of both the USAF and the CAF.
Mitsunari Kanai - Wikipedia

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Kanai Sensei 1999 part 1

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Hiroshi Kato

2006-11-11T03:57:00.000-08:00

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Hiroshi Kato (加藤弘 Kato Hiroshi , born in Tokyo,1935) is a world renowned Aikido Master (8th Dan). He lives in Tokyo,Japan and travels around the world to spread his knowledge about the Art of Aikido. Sensei Kato is a former student of Morihei Ueshiba. Since 1975, Sensei Kato has been teaching in his Dojo "Suginami Aikikai" (affiliated to Aikikai World Headquarters) located in the Ogikubo district and has over 100 committed students.
Hiroshi Kato (Aikido) - Wikipedia

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Aikido - Hiroshi Kato - Basics Ikkyo

Aikido - Hiroshi Kato Shihan

Seishiro Endo

2006-11-11T03:01:00.000-08:00

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Seishiro Endo (b. 6 Sept. 1943, Nagano) is a Japanese aikido master who presently holds the rank of 8th dan Aikikai.
From 1967, he studied aikido at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo
Today Endo holds regular classes at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and conducts Rikuyokai (Sunday practice) at Gakushuin University dojo, Tokyo. He also holds numerous seminars in various dojos throughout Japan. Overseas seminars are held every year in France, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Holland and Spain.
In 1993 Endo Sensei constructed Aikido Saku Dojo in his hometown.
Seishiro Endo - Wikipedia

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Aikido, Endo-sensei

Seichiro Endo Sensei

Aikido Endo Sensei(Budokan 2003)

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Aikido Saku Dojo Home Page
- Aikido, a way of seeking Tao(Interview)

Hiroshi Ikeda

2006-11-11T02:41:00.000-08:00

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Hiroshi Ikeda Shihan (born 1950, Tokyo) is the founder of Boulder Aikikai, and the owner of Bujin Design, a martial arts supply company. He holds the rank of 7th dan, awarded by Mitsugi Saotome Shihan in the Aikido World Federation.
Ikeda began studying Aikido in 1968 while attending college at Kokugakin University in Tokyo. He relocated to Sarasota, Florida in 1976, and taught there under Saotome Sensei from 1978-1979. Then, in 1980, he moved to Boulder to establish a dojo there under Saotome's organization, Aikido Schools of Ueshiba.
He currently lives in Boulder, where operates both his dojo and his company. He also travels frequently to conduct seminars both in the United States and abroad.
Hiroshi Ikeda - Wikipedia

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Tadashi Abe

2006-11-11T02:33:00.000-08:00

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Tadashi Abe (1926 - November 23, 1984) was the first aikido master to live and teach in the west. He began Aikido in Osaka in 1942 and went on to train directly under the founder of the art Morihei Ueshiba at Iwama. In 1952, after graduating in law from Waseda University, he moved to France where he both studied law at the Sorbonne, and also taught aikido as a 6th Dan representative of Aikikai Honbu. After seven years he returned to Japan.
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A 1952 film clip featuring Koichi Tohei Kisshomaru Ueshiba and Tadashi Abe

Seiseki Abe

2006-11-11T02:21:00.000-08:00

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Seiseki Abe (b. 1915, Osaka) is a famous Japanese shodo and aikido master who had an unique relationship with aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba being both his student in aikido but his teacher in calligraphy[1].
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