(17 December 1939-29 August 2010). 8th dan Aikikai (1996). Aikikai Shihan. B. Hokkaido. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in 1959. Dispatched to Sydney, Australia in 1965 where he remained for 15 years. Later, in 1979 Sugano taught for several years in Belgium, Luxembourg and France. He is presently instructing at the New York Aikikai in New York City.
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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