(b. 14 May 1923). Instructor of aikido, judo and ballroom dancing. Long-time teacher of judo and dancing and a recipient of numerous awards in both fields. Began training in aikido in 1964 at Los Angeles Aikikai...
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Josh GoldMenkyo 免許
Teaching license. License awarded to students of many traditional Japanese martial arts.
Robert Nadeau
(b. 1940). 7th dan Aikikai. Professional aikido instructor. An early practitioner and pioneer of aikido in California. Nadeau began practice in the late 1950s and spent more than two years studying at the AIKIKAI HOMBU...
André Nocquet
(30 July 1914 – 12 March 1999). 8th dan. Aikido instructor. An early practitioner of aikido in France in 1950s. Nocquet spent 1955-57 in Tokyo studying at AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO and was one of the first serious foreign...
Yutaka Otsuki 大槻豊
First taught DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU by Sokaku TAKEDA. Later became the calligraphy teacher of Seiseki ABE who studied aikido under Morihei UESHIBA and who later became the founder’s calligraphy teacher. Otsuki was...
Menkyo Kaiden 免許皆伝
Certificate of advanced proficiency. Highest certificate of proficiency awarded in many traditional Japanese martial art systems. Sokaku TAKEDA is known to have awarded DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU menkyo kaiden to Takuma HISA...