7th dan Aikikai (2012). Began aikido in 1969 in Britain. While a university student, trained under Kazuo Chiba and later in the USA with Mitsunari Kanai. Returned to Britain in 1975 and practiced under Minoru Kanetsuka...
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Hanmi 半身
Half stance; ready position with one foot forward prior to execution of technique. See also KAMAE. Morihei Ueshiba executing a hanmi handachi technique at the Noma Dojo (1935). Uke: Shigemi Yonekawa
Steven W. Duncan
(b. 22 March 1955). 5th dan Tomiki Aikido-Jiyushinkai, May 1990; 4th dan Aikido-IMAF, May 1988 [ranks authenticated]. Professional aikido instructor. First taught by Karl GEIS in Houston, Texas in 1977. Formed SHOBU...
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...
Robert Forrest Webb
(b. 9 April 1929). 5th dan Tomiki Aikido-BAA, 1989 [rank authenticated]. Also has practiced judo and kendo. Novelist and playwright. British Kayak Champion 500/1000 meters, 1949-50. Started judo in 1945 in Liverpool and...
Janez Gale
(b. 1955). Began training in 1978 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Training experience in AIKIKAI HOMBU-Style, SHINSHIN TOITSU AIKIDO and IWAMA-STYLE AIKIDO. Began publishing Aikido Satori Bilten newsletter in March 1990...
