Training hall; gymnasium. Lit. , “place where the Way is practiced.”
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Josh GoldFuku Shidoin 副指導員
Assistant instructor. The lowest of three instructor levels instituted by the AIKIKAI HOMBU at the time of the creation of the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION. Corresponds approximately to 2nd and 3rd dan. See SHIDOIN...
Itsuo Haba はばいつお
(b. 8 August 1955). 6th dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1990 [rank authenticated]. High school English teacher. Graduate of Waseda University, where he began aikido under Kenji TOMIKI and Hideo OHBA in 1974 as a member of the...