(b. 1943). 1st dan Tomiki Aikido, 1990 [rank authenticated]. Lawyer. Began training in 1983 in Columbia, Maryland. Extensive experience in teaching aikido to the aged and handicapped. Instructor at two Maryland aikido...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldFédération Française d’Aikido et de Budo
(FFAB = French Federation of Aikido and Budo). Formerly the Fédération Française Libre d’Aikido et de Budo. An organization formed under the leadership of Nobuyoshi TAMURA in 1982 grouping together French...
Ulf Evenas
(b. 1946). 7th dan Iwama-ryu Aikido, 6th dan Aikikai. Senior representative of Iwama Aikido in Northern Europe. Professional instructor of aikido and conflict management. First taught aikido in Gothenborg, Sweden in...
Danielle Molles Evans
(b. c. 1947). 3rd dan Aikikai. First taught by Stanley PRANIN in Monterey, California in 1974. Active as an instructor of Model Mugging, a type of anti-rape training. Presently chief instructor of Aikido of Monterey...
European Aikido Federation
(EAF). An organization created in November 1975 in Paris at the same time as the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION and which grouped together the AIKIKAI-HOMBU-affiliated national organizations of Europe. Its first...
Engaru 遠軽
Town in northern part of Hokkaido where Morihei UESHIBA first met and trained with Sokaku TAKEDA of the DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU school, through an introduction from Kotaro YOSHIDA. Ueshiba participated in a ten-day seminar at...
Seishiro Endo 遠藤征四郎
(b. 6 September 1942). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Nagano Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Entered AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as UCHIDESHI c. 1964.