(b.1939). 6th dan Yoshinkan Aikido, 3rd dan Aikikai, 3rd dan Tendokan, 2nd dan Shinshin Toitsu aikido (ranks authenticated). Aikido instructor and tourism consultant. Began training at Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo under Gozo...
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Josh GoldMetsuke 目突け
Eye-to-eye contact without focusing on a single point which permits awareness of the total field of vision.
Aritoshi Murashige 村重有利
(7 January 1895-24 March 1964). Also Aritomo. A judoka and practitioner of Katori Shinto-ryu at the Kodokan together with Minoru MOCHIZUKI in the late 1920s. Began martial arts training in 1908. Entered the KOBUKAN DOJO...
Heizaburo Nakatsu
(Dates unknown). Member of the Asahi News dojo who studied under both Morihei Ueshiba and Sokaku TAKEDA in Osaka from c. 1933 to 1939. Awarded the KYOJU DAIRI by Sokaku in October 1937 in Osaka.
Katie Noad
(16 March 1957). B. Melbourne. 3rd dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1988 [rank authenticated]. Fluent in Japanese. Aikido instructor and tour guide. Began aikido in 1980 under Leoni GAY. Went to Japan in 1985. Returned to Perth...
T. S. Okuyama
(b. 30 April 1949). 6th Dan Aikikai (2003). Aikido/iaido instructor. B. in Shizuoka, Japan. B.S. in engineering (Illinois Institute of Technology). First taught aikido by Akira TOHEI in 1972 in Chicago. Also studied...