(b. 1945). 5th dan Aikikai. M. A. in Spanish from University of California at Los Angeles in 1968. Magazine editor. Fluent in Japanese. First taught YOSHINKAN AIKIDO by Virgil CRANK in August 1962 in Lomita, California...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldBrian Powers
(b. 25 July 1946). 3rd dan Aikikai. Commercial artist. Began training in 1970 with United Kingdom Aikido Federation in London. Operates a dojo in Queensland, Australia. Aikidokan Dojo, Victoria Point Public Hall...
Yves Pierlot
(b. 27 February 1951). 5th dan Belgian Aikikai. General Secretary of the Belgian Aikikai. B. in Seraing, Belgium. First taught aikido by G. Shiffelers in 1966. Trained at Aikikai Hombu Dojo in June 1974. Studied under...
Terry C Pierce
(b. 14 December 1936). 6th Dan Ki no Kenkyukai. Jo Den Ki Development, and Associate Lecturer, Electromechanical designer, Ki Aikido Instructor and massage therapist. B. in Bridgeton, New Jersey, USA. First taught...
Lou Perriello
4th dan Aikikai-USAF. Began training in 1962 in Boston, Massachusetts. Became UNITED STATES AIKIDO FEDERATION Shidoin in 1983. Holds U. S. Department of the Interior certification for teaching aikido to law enforcement...
Roger Payne
(b. 13 September 1949 – Portsmouth U.K.). 6th Dan Aikido, Kyoshi, Dai Nippon Butoku Kai. Began Martial Arts training in Shotokan Karate in 1964. Began aikido training as part of a group formed by Kenshiro ABBE...
Jacques Payet
(b. 24 August 1957). 4th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Yoshinkan Aikido Jokyo. Began training c. 1980. Member of the staff of the Aikido Yoshinkan International newsletter. Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo, Kami Ochiai 2-28-8, Shinjuku-ku...
Charles A. Parry
(23 September 1869-25 March 1949). B. Calcutta of British parents. Probably the first foreigner to have ever studied DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU. Parry’s name was recorded in pencil in roman script in the EIMEIROKU of...
Delmar Glenn Pack
(b. 1948). 4th dan Yoseikan Budo, 1989 [rank authenticated]. Clinical psychologist. Began training in Alabama in 1967. Studied under Minoru MOCHIZUKI at the YOSEIKAN Hombu on four occasions in Shizuoka, Japan. Founded...
Hokushu Ozawa 大澤北州
(b. 14 September 1951). B. Iwate Prefecture. Studied Wado-ryu Karate from 1964. Began aikido at the Sapporo branch dojo of the AIKIKAI HOMBU in 1970 and later became an instructor. From 1974-1981 practiced at the...