(b. 17 July 1935). 6th dan Tomiki Aikido, 1987-JAA [rank authenticated]; 2nd dan Yoshinkan Aikido, 1966 [rank authenticated]. Employed by U. S. Marshal’s Service. Began practice of jujutsu c. 1958 and aikido...
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Josh GoldShinshin Toitsu Aikido 心身統一合気道会
(Aikido With Mind and Body Coordinated). Name of the school of aikido officially created by Koichi TOHEI c. 1974 emphasizing the concept of KI which consists of a series of ki development exercises and breathing...
Robert E. Simmons
(b. 1936). 4th dan American International Ki Development and Philosophical Society [rank authenticated]. Lead designer, electronics packaging. First taught YOSEIKAN AIKIDO by Agusto Lodi in 1959. Operates University of...
Tetsutaka Sugawara
(b. c. 1940). After university, Sugawara spent several months at the IWAMA Dojo as an UCHIDESHI in the late 1960s under Morihiro SAITO. He established the Minato Research and Publishing Company c. 1973 and published the...
Hiroshi Tada 多田宏
(b. 1929). 9th dan Aikikai. B. Nagasaki Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Graduate in law from Waseda University in 1952. Tada was a member of the karate club at Waseda University. He began training at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO...