Name of the Daito-ryu school overseen by Headmaster Tokimune TAKEDA in ABASHIRI, Hokkaido. This form also includes techniques of the Onoha Itto-ryu sword school in addition to the traditional DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU...
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Josh GoldDai Nihon Butokukai 大日本武徳会
(Greater Japan Martial Virtues Society). An organization headquartered in Kyoto established in 1895 in order to promote traditional martial arts and cultivate martial virtues. The members of the first executive council...
Christopher David Curtis
(b. 23 June 1944). 7th Dan Ki no Kenkyukai. Landscape Design / Builder. B. in Upland, California. B.A., Theater Arts, Carnegie Mellon University. First taught aikido by Shin’ichi SUZUKI in 1974. Trained in Japan...
Mark R. Crapo
(b. 6 August 1954). 7th dan, Kancho of Seidokan Aikido; 1st dan judo. Doctor of Oriental medicine. Began aikido training in 1975 at University of Hawaii. Primary aikido instruction received from Roderick KOBAYASHI with...
Virgil Crank
(b. c. 1934). Early American instructor of YOSHINKAN AIKIDO. First taught by Eugene COMBS and Tom CORZINE in the late 1950s in Lawndale, California. Crank was the first person promoted to 1st dan by Corzine and he...
Richard Crane
(b. 17 July 1952). B. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professional aikido instructor. First began training in late 1971. Studied for 10 years under Shuji MARUYAMA in Philadelphia. Co-owner and Chief Instructor of Agatsu...
Kathy Crane
B. Camden, New Jersey. Professional aikido instructor. First began training in late 1971. Studied for ten years under Shuji MARUYAMA in Philadelphia. Co-owner and Chief Instructor of Agatsu Dojo.
Coryl Crane
(b. 21 December 1943). 6th dan Aikikai/Birankai International (2002). Aikido Instructor and artist. B. in Hounslow, Middlesex, England. First taught aikido by Ben Sekishiro in 1978 while at the University of California...
Tom Corzine
Early American instructor of YOSHINKAN AIKIDO. Began training in late 1950s at the Lawndale, California school of Eugene COMBS. Promoted to 1st dan by Combs c. 1960. Among Corzine’s students were Virgil CRANK...
Paolo Corallini
(b. c. 1951). 7th dan Aikikai (2011), 7th dan Iwama Aikido. Senior representative of Iwama Aikido in Italy. Dentist. Began study of jujutsu in 1969; first taught aikido by Motokage KAWAMUKAI the same year receiving 1st...