Tenth rank or grade. Tenth degree black belt in martial arts ranking systems. The only official 10th degree awarded through the AIKIKAI HOMBU was given to Koichi TOHEI c. 1970. Minoru MOCHIZUKI received this rank...
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Josh GoldKangeiko
Mid-winter training. Typically an intensive practice session held early in the morning for a number of successive days in January. Usually those who complete the training with a perfect attendance record receive a...
Hiden Ogi (No Koto)
Transmission scroll of inner mysteries. The third level of techniques in the DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU curriculum covering 36 techniques.
Hideki Hosokawa 細川ひでき
(b. 1942). 6th dan Aikikai. Representative of Aikikai in Italy. Presently residing in Sardinia. Musubi no Kai, Via Priore Berengario 11, Cagliari, Italy.
Shizuo Imaizumi 今泉鎮雄
(b. 1938). 7th dan Shinshin Toitsu Aikido. Graduate of Waseda University where he began his aikido training in May 1959. Became a full-time instructor at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in January 1965. First traveled abroad in...
Iriminage 入り身投げ
A technique where the defender enters linearly behind the attacker, gains the initiative and seizes him by the collar or neck with one hand while entering under the chin with the other arm and then downward to execute...