Instructor. The middle of three instructor levels instituted by the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in the mid-1970s at the time of the creation of the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION. Corresponds approximately to 4th and 5th degree...
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Josh GoldShirataki 白滝
A small town in the northern part of Hokkaido where Morihei UESHIBA lived from 1912-1919. Ueshiba played a leadership role in the clearing of the land and settling of this town as part of a group of colonizers from...
Birger Sorensen
(b. 24 March 1955). 3rd dan Aikikai. President of organic chemistry R&D company. First taught by Minoru KANETSUKA in London in 1976. After practicing one year, returned to Tromso, Norway where he established the...
Kanshu Sunadomari 砂泊誠秀
(1923-13 November 2010). Also Kanehira and Kan’ei. 9th dan Aikikai, 1961. B. Kagoshima Prefecture. From a family of devout OMOTO RELIGION believers. Younger step-brother of Kanemoto SUNADOMARI and brother of...
Gilbert Rosat
3rd dan FFAB, 1988 [rank authenticated]. Student of Nobuyoshi TAMURA. Chief instructor of UGAP Aikido. UGAP Aikido, Rochefort-Samsom, Bourg de Peage 26300 France.
Sankajo 三か条
3rd teaching; an older term borrowed from DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU and which, in the aikido context, means essentially the same as SANKYO. Still used in YOSHINKAN AIKIDO.