(b. 7 April 1962). 3rd dan Yoshinkan Aikido-IYAF. Insurance broker. Began training in 1980 in Windsor, Ontario. Graduate of a 20-month course taught by Takashi KUSHIDA. Presently instructs at Belle River Aikido Dojo in...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldKarl Fredrich Leisinger
An early German practitioner of judo who began aikido training under Katsuaki ASAI in 1965. Leisinger is active organizationally and a staunch supporter of Asai. Currently President of the Aikikai of Germany and the...
Lega Italiana Di Aikido
(LIA = Italian Aikido League). An Italian organization established in Milan in 1983 recognized by the COMITATO OLIMPICO NAZIONALE ITALIANO and the EUROPEAN AIKIDO FEDERATION created in 1980 from the Directing Committee...
T. K. Lee
5th dan Aikikai, 1988 [rank authenticated]. Began training in New York in 1960. Presently operates a dojo in Houston. Aikido of Houston, 6304 W. Little York Rd. , Suite 106, Houston, TX 77091 USA.
Ah Loi Lee
(b. 1940). 7th Dan Aikido (Japan Aikido Association, March 1993); 7th Dan Iaido (Zen Nihon Kendo Renmei, June 2000), 7th Dan Jodo (ZNKR, October 2002). B. Singapore. Doctor (anesthetist) and acupuncturist. Began...
George S. Ledyard
(b. 11 May 1952). Aikido 6th Dan Aikikai, Aikido Schools of Ueshiba. Aikido & Defensive Tactics Instructor. B. in Syracuse, NY. First taught aikido by Mitsugi SAOTOME in 1977 at the Washington DC Aikikai. After...
Bill Lawrence
(b. c. 1919). 5th dan Tomiki Aikido- JAA; 6th dan Tomiki Aikido-BAA. Also 1st dan judo. Began aikido c. 1959 under Senta YAMADA, and later studied under Riki KOGURE, Tsunemitsu Naito, Takeshi INOUE, and Hideo OHBA...
Bernie Lau
(b. 1941). B. Lille, France. 4th dan Aikikai, 1980 [rank authenticated]. Retired police detective; martial arts instructor. Moved to Hawaii in 1947 and was adopted into a Chinese family. Lau was first taught aikido in...
Ernesto Ladavas
(b. 1951). 2nd dan Aikikai, 1989 [rank authenticated]. Engineer. Italian residing in the Netherlands. Began aikido training in the Netherlands in 1979. Currently teaches in Dordrecht. Wakai-Hasu-Dojo, c/o High Tech...