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Archive - 2011
Josh GoldYukio Noguchi
(1927-1998). 7th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Kumamoto, Japan. Began study of judo, karate, kendo and sumo at age 16. Twice won Kanto Regional Judo Championships. Early practitioner of YOSHINKAN AIKIDO. Trained early...
André Nocquet
(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...
Katie 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...
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...
History of Aikido in the Netherlands
Aikido began in the Netherlands c. 1963 with visits by Hirokazu KOBAYASHI to teach small groups of Dutch judoka. The organization which grew out of these first groups joined the Aikido Section of the Judo Bond...
Tetsuro Nariyama 成山哲郎
(b. 1947). 8th dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1988 [rank authenticated], 5th dan Aikikai. Tomiki Aikido Shihan. Graduate in Law of Kokushikan University. Professional aikido instructor. Started aikido in 1966 under Kenji TOMIKI...
Nanadan 七段
Seventh rank or grade. Seventh degree black belt in martial arts ranking systems. Same as SHICHIDAN.