(b. 1945). 5th dan Aikikai- Iwama-style, b. 8 January1989 [rank authenticated]. 4th dan kyudo. Graduate in physics, engineering and risk management. Risk manager. Began training in 1970 in Melbourne. Practiced at...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldBruce Klickstein
(b. 1953). 5th dan Aikikai. American. First taught c. 1969 by Allen Grow in Berkeley, Calif. Spent more than three years in IWAMA as an UCHIDESHI under Morihiro SAITO. Fluent in Japanese. Taught from early 1970s to 1988...
Yasunari Kitaura 北裏康成
B. 25 May 1937. 8th dan Aikikai. Professor of Art History and aikido instructor. Graduate of Waseda University. Studied under Morihei Ueshiba and Kisshomaru Ueshiba. Official representative of the AIKIKAI HOMBU in Spain...
Tatsuo Kimura 木村達雄
(b. 1947). B. Tokyo. Graduate of the Faculty of Science of University of Tokyo with a doctorate in mathematics. Associate Professor at Tsukuba University. Began aikido as a freshman in high school, and later became a...
Ikuko Kimura 木村郁子
(b. 20 February 1958). B. Tokyo. Graduate in English of Meiji Gakuin University. Editor of Japanese language edition of AIKI NEWS. Joined magazine staff in 1982.
Hideo Mahner Kimura
(b. 29 May 1928). 4th dan Aikikai and Shinshin Toitsu Aikido [ranks authenticated]. First taught in 1956 by Yukiso Yamamoto, continuing with Shin’ichi SUZUKI of Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. Resigned from International...
Takeshi Kimeda
(b. 22 February 1941). 9th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Aikido instructor. Graduate of Meiji Gakuin and captain of his university aikido club (1963-64). Taught in California and Michigan in 1964 before moving to Ontario to...
Richard Kim
(17 November 1919-8 November 2001). Karateka and martial arts historian. B. in Hawaii. First studied boxing and judo as a boy and later karate in Hawaii. In 1937, pursues university studies in China, and learns tai chi...
Kihonwaza 基本技
Basic technique. Often used in contrast to KI NO NAGARE, or flowing techniques. Takeshi Kimeda (1990)
Kiai 気合い
Combative shout, or yell; common to many martial arts. The kiai is designed to distract or disturb the attacker to facilitate the execution of a technique.