(30 July 1914 – 12 March 1999). 8th dan. Aikido instructor. An early practitioner of aikido in France in 1950s. Nocquet spent 1955-57 in Tokyo studying at AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO and was one of the first serious foreign...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldKatie Noad
(16 March 1957). B. Melbourne. 3rd dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1988 [rank authenticated]. Fluent in Japanese. Aikido instructor and tour guide. Began aikido in 1980 under Leoni GAY. Went to Japan in 1985. Returned to Perth...
Shoji Nishio 西尾昭二
(1927-15 Mar 2005). 8th dan Aikikai. Aikikai Shihan. Began practice at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO at the end of 1951 and became a shihan c. 1955. Also an advanced practitioner of judo, karate, iaido and jojutsu, elements of...
Koji Nishida にしだこうじ
(b. 14 April 1960). 3rd dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Sapporo, Hokkaido. Yoshinkan Aikido Shidoin. Began training in 1985 at the Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo. Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo, Kami Ochiai 2-28-8, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 161 Japan...
Nippon Budokan 日本武道館
. Large indoor stadium structure built during the mid-1960s in downtown Tokyo specifically for the practice and demonstration of Japanese martial arts. Events such as music concerts are also held there. It is the site...
Nikyo 二教
Second teaching; refers to several types of pressures applied against the wrist of the attacker in order to break his balance.
Nikajo 二か条
Second teaching; an older term borrowed from DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU which, used in the aikido context, means essentially the same as NIKYO. Still used in YOSHINKAN AIKIDO.
Nihon Korinkai 日本光輪会
A KORINDO organization created in January 1954 by Minoru HIRAI, Director of General Affairs of the KOBUKAN DOJO in the early 1940s.
Kim Otto Nielsen
(b. 1959). 3rd dan Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu-Roppokai. Roppokai Shibucho for Denmark. B. A. in Japanese from University of Copenhagen. First taught DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU by Seigo OKAMOTO in Tokyo in 1983. Established a...
History of Aikido in New Zealand
Aikido was first established in New Zealand by David LYNCH and his wife, Hisae, in 1965. The first classes were held in Auckland and a Yoshinkai Aikido Institute was opened in November 1967. Lynch arranged the first...