(25 February 1937-30 March 2005). Early Italian practitioner who first trained aikido under Motokage KAWAMUKAI in 1964. Instrumental in establishing Hiroshi TADA as an instructor in Italy. Elected president of the EUROPEAN AIKIDO FEDERATION in 1978. Second president of the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION in 1982-1994. Later member of the Superior Council of the IAF.
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...
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