(b. 13 April 1948). 7th Dan, Iwama Shin-Shin Aiki Shuren Kai. B. Fresno, California. Served 16 years in the U. S. Army, 11 in Japan. Taught by Tetsutaka SUGAWARA and Morihiro SAITO. Co-translator of Vols. 3 and 4 of Traditional Aikido authored by Saito. Returned to the U. S. in 1977. Presently operating an Iwama style dojo with an uchideshi program in the Phillippines.
As a holiday gift to the aikido community, Aikido Journal has created a new version of our Principal Disciples of Morihei Ueshiba chart, originally developed by AJ founder Stanley Pranin. We hope you’ll enjoy and...
The Aiki Expo events were major aikido seminars sponsored by Aikido Journal and conceived and organized by Stanley Pranin that gathered together many high-ranking teachers from Aikido, Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, classical...
Mutual strike or cut. Sword term used to describe the circumstance where two swordsmen strike each other simultaneously. In AIKI KEN terminology, often used in contradistinction to AINUKE where neither swordsman can...
Josh Gold
Died February 8 2018